ABCNEWS - Habeas petition filed days before ICE detainee's death cited medical conditions
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 39, who was detained at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, died on Saturday following a "medical emergency," ICE said.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 39, who was detained at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, died on Saturday following a "medical emergency," ICE said.
Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus – a legal request used to challenge unlawful imprisonment.
Jake Tapper spotted one of the more extreme decisions that the president has considered, according to the new bombshell book, “Regime Change.”
Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it.
Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.
A federal appeals court struck down the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy on Wednesday. Why it matters: The Miami, Florida-based 11th Circuit ruling is the latest case to weigh the administration's controversial policy to hold people in immigration detention with the possibility for bond. - Now, two federal appeals courts have ruled against the government, while two others have supported the policy . One deadlocked . Driving the news: The case stems from the government's reinterpretation of a 1996 policy governing which migrants had to be held in detention and who was eligible for bond. - Since the policy change last year, anyone who entered the country illegally would be detained by ICE without bond, regardless of how…
A federal appeals court struck down the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy on Wednesday. Why it matters: The Miami, Florida-based 11th Circuit ruling is the latest case to weigh the administration's controversial policy to hold people in immigration detention with the possibility for bond. - Now, two federal appeals courts have ruled against the government, while two others have supported the policy . One deadlocked . Driving the news: The case stems from the government's reinterpretation of a 1996 policy governing which migrants had to be held in detention and who was eligible for bond. - Since the policy change last year, anyone who entered the country illegally would be detained by ICE without bond, regardless of how…
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Immigration attorneys have increasingly turned to federal courts to challenge detention policies, flooding the system with 24,400 habeas claims.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Attorneys such as Dan Gividen and Jeremy McKinney, federal judges, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and illegal immigrants detained across the United States.WHEN & WHERE: Ongoing since January 2025, with […] The post Attorneys for Illegal Immigrants Have Flooded Federal Courts With Over 24,000 Lawsuits. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Immigration attorneys have increasingly turned to federal courts to challenge detention policies, flooding the system with 24,400 habeas claims. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Attorneys such as Dan Gividen and Jeremy McKinney, federal judges, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and illegal immigrants detained across the United States. WHEN & WHERE: Ongoing since January 2025, with cases filed in federal courts across the country. KEY QUOTE: “The only way that the overwhelming majority of people that ICE is detaining right now is going to get out is through the habeas system.” – Dan Gividen IMPACT: Some federal judges have issued rulings rejecting the government’s interpretation of immigration law and…Open
More than 10,964 habeas petitions were filed in the first weeks of 2026, surpassing about 9,250 filed in all of 2025.
Boasberg wants U.S. taxpayers to bring suspected gang members back from Venezuela. KELLY: The ACLU doesn’t even know where these 137 illegals are. Some left Venezuela, some are in third party countries. Boasberg wants taxpayers to fly them back, hold Zoom hearings from Venezuela, and let them file new asylum and habeas claims challenging their Alien Enemies Act designation. They’re not in U.S. custody. They’re not under our constitutional protections. Yet he wants them back on American soil.