Background
In connection with our work on Community Defense from ICE Raids and Deportation, IDP engages in litigation efforts to uncover and challenge immigration policing practices. IDP monitors ICE raids in the New York City area and supports immigrants who seek to challenge their arrests before the federal courts and immigration agencies. IDP also supports systemic litigation before the federal and New York State courts to challenge anti-immigrant policies and practices.
Practice Advisories
- Rights and Obligations of Noncitizens During ICE Car Stops (Apr. 29, 2020, by IDP)
- New York City New Detainer Law Discretion Law Chart and Practice Advisory (Dec. 14, 2014, by IDP and Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic)
- Getting Clients with ICE Detainers out of DOC Custody (2013, by IDP)
- The Implementation of “Secure Communities” Throughout New York May Drastically Alter Your Noncitizen Clients’ Decisions at Arraignments (July 12, 2012, by IDP)
Amicus Briefs
- State v. Lopez-Carrera, State v. Molchor, State v. Rios, —A.3d—, 2021WL1180720 (N.J. 2021) – Brief of IDP et al. in Support of Defendants (Amicus counsel Jenny-Brooke Condon)
- State of New York, et al. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al., No. 1:19-cv-08876-JSR (S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 25, 2019) – Brief of IDP and 44 Legal Services Organizations, Public Defender Organizations, and Non-Profit Organizations in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment (Amicus counsel IDP)
- Doe v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, No. 1:19-cv-08892-AJN-JLC (S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 25, 2019) – Brief of IDP and 39 Legal Services Organizations, Public Defender Organizations, and Non-Profit Organizations In Support of Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (Amicus counsel IDP)
Affirmative Litigation
- Prado v. ICE Agent Perez, No. 1:18-cv-09806-JPO (S.D.N.Y. filed Oct. 24, 2018): Federal Tort Claims Act and Bivens lawsuit seeking damages for ICE’s warrantless home raid and failure to provide adequate medical treatment in detention
- Complaint
- Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss
- Order on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss