The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment on Feb. 25, which included IRLI’s Matt O’Brien as a witness.
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IRLI filed an important brief in Maryland federal district court in a case on birthright citizenship. The plaintiffs, a group of organizations with illegal alien members, claim that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, and that children of illegal aliens are guaranteed citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment. |
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IRLI filed a brief in the Supreme Court in a case about whether the 30-day deadline for appealing a removal order, set forth in a statute, is jurisdictional, or only a claims processing rule that can be extended while ancillary matters, such a petition for withholding of removal, are eventually decided. |
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IRLI filed a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States urging it to cut back the administrative state by correctly applying the Court’s own precedents explaining the limits the Constitution imposes on agencies when they regulate. |
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To counter widespread, inaccurate statements in the media about the Trump Administration’s efforts to control illegal immigration, IRLI has published a report explaining what rights immigrants have and do not have in the United States. |
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On behalf of its client Save Jobs USA, an association of technology workers, IRLI petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review a case that challenges the authority of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to allow aliens to take half of the new jobs the American economy creates each year. |
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Pushing back against the opposition to President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, IRLI has filed a brief in a New Hampshire district court case. The suit is the latest attempt by anti-borders groups to thwart the mandate the American people gave Trump to end the illegal immigration crisis. |
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In an ad promoting herself as a tough on crime judge, and her opponent as “too extreme,” the Democrat-aligned candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race touted the endorsement of a local sheriff who has a long history of promoting sanctuary immigration policies and opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). |
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Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that New York City’s migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel, which had become a symbol of the Biden border crisis, would soon shut down. |
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A group representing American-born tech workers is asking the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge to employment authorization for spouses of H-1B visa holders. |
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A federal judge in Concord in will hear preliminary injunction arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship executive order that seeks to deny citizenship status for children born in the United States to noncitizens. |
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| The government spends tens of millions of dollars annually on a legal assistance program for illegal immigrants facing deportation court hearings, even though the government’s studies show it has hardly any effect on their cases. |
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A Davidson County family continues to press for an injunction against the local school system. Parents Leah and Chad McGhee sued the school board and an administrator over son Christian’s 2024 suspension for saying the words “illegal alien” in class. |
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