The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case that will determine whether immigrants who suffer egregious medical mistreatment while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can seek punitive damages.

Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center welcomes today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving the right to judicial review for immigrants facing deportation.

Case Highlights Importance of Judicial Review in Upholding U.S. Human Rights Obligations

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a former member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang in El Salvador, who applied for asylum in the United States because he fears he will be persecuted for leaving the gang if he returns to his native country, is a member of a “particular social group,” a key requirement to obtain protection in the United States.

The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral argument in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, a case that will determine whether immigrants with past minor drug convictions have the right to a day in court before they are deported.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that a family’s threats to force their daughter into marriage if she returns to their native country of Pakistan qualify as “changed circumstances” under U.S. law and warrant a review of the woman’s asylum case.

Concludes Lengthy Federal Court Battle in Freedom of Information Act Case

Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has completed a three-year-long battle in federal court after the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released previously undisclosed inspection records from immigration detention facilities.