This advisory explains each of the three statutory grounds for mandatory detention, and defenses and strategies that advocates can use to challenge the designation. It discusses the Laken Riley Act of 2025, the BIA’s decisions in Matter of Q. Li and Matter of Yajure Hurtado, and the current state of national litigation challenging ICE’s expansive use of mandatory detention.
This practice advisory will highlight some trends, policy changes, and what could happen with the future of DACA.
Our 2025 winter edition of the newsletter. In this issue: In this issue: Message from the ILRC, Red Cards: Protecting Immigrants Since 2006, Texas Updates from Laredo & Houston, 2025 Burton Awards: Celebrating Together.