It used to be rare for immigrants to be arrested at entrances to military bases, but there have been dozens of arrests since President Donald Trump returned to power last year.

It’s difficult to access immigration court records under an increasingly antiquated federal rule. An army of volunteers is working to change that.

Estos recintos en Estados Unidos han tenido dificultades para satisfacer las necesidades de salud de las personas bajo su custodia

Lawyers who spoke to KPBS said immigration judges are now ordering bond amounts that previously were only used for criminals on international wanted lists. The U.S. Department of Justice says the courts are following the law and that the claims are “baseless.”

Leilani Stacy, immigrants’ rights attorney at the ACLU of Hawaiʻi, explains what habeas petitions are and how they’re used to aid immigrant detainees.

A legal maneuver once reserved for death row inmates and suspected terrorists has become the only recourse for immigrant detainees, who have flooded federal courts in California with thousands of petitions for freedom.

Judges have repeatedly ordered bond hearings or release from immigration detention following habeas corpus petitions.

ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.

“We have to kick the door down.”

It’s gotten much harder for immigrants held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to get out on bond. Habeas corpus petitions often work, but there’s a catch: they’re very expensive.

Immigration lawyers who have little experience with habeas corpus petitions are turning to informal networks and a software developer from Chicago to help them with their cases.

Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

In a year of unprecedented challenges, the city’s attorneys are advising clients amid a shifting legal landscape and an immigration court backlog of 325,000 cases.

Federal courts have been inundated with a flood of cases stemming from the Trump administration’s revised approach to the detention of unauthorized immigrants, with judges routinely ruling against the government as immigration attorneys scramble to keep up.

As immigration enforcement escalated during Trump’s first year, New Yorkers stood ten toes down in defense of immigrant neighbors.

Las autoridades sostuvieron que existían antecedentes previos y afirmaron que “quien incumple la ley enfrenta consecuencias”

In Oakland, this 20-year-old man was paying taxes and a mortgage while his asylum case proceeded. Then ICE whisked him to a detention center in another state.