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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana challenging a controversial Indiana immigration law [SEA...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Tuesday blocked the state's controversial immigration law , less than 24 hours after it took effect. Judge Clark Waddoups...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit challenging Utah's controversial immigration law . The bill, which has...

A coalition of six rights groups filed a petition in the US District Court of Arizona on Friday seeking to block to additional elements of the Arizona's recently passed immigration reform bill SB 1070 [text;...

A group of UN human rights experts said Monday that Arizona's new immigration law could violate international standards that are binding on the US. The group of six UN experts, which...

Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday challenging Arizona's new immigration law, which makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant and requires police to question anyone whose immigration status appears suspect. Arizona police officer Martin Escobar filed suit [complaint...

Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday challenging Arizona's new immigration law, which makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant and requires police to question anyone whose immigration status appears suspect. Arizona police officer Martin Escobar filed suit [complaint...

The US Deparment of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday rescinded a rule that would have required employers to fire workers whose information did not match Social Security Administration (SSA) records. The American Civil Liberties Union...

The US plans to implement large-scale changes to its immigration detention system, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday. According to ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton , the goal is to reduce the number...

A former guard at the Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria has been released from a Michigan jail after Germany, Romania and Hungary all refused to take custody of him, according to a spokesman for the US...