D.A. v. Noem
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and law firm, Grossman Young & Hammond, challenge seeking to stop government from deporting case plaintiffs to their countries of origin via Ghana, and to compel their return to the United States.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Immigrant Rights, Immigration Detention
Alma Bella Bowman v. Jason Streeval, Ladeon Francis, et al.
Alma Bella Bowman, a longtime Georgia resident and immigrants’ rights activist unjustly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March 2025, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia seeking her immediate release.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Immigration Detention, Equal Protection, Derivative Citizenship
Silva v. U.S. Attorney General
In January 2022, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), and Foley & Lardner LLP filed a petition for review with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the deportation of Kelvin Silva and asserting that the exclusion of unwed U.S.-citizen fathers from the former derivative naturalization statute violates Equal Protection.
Status: Ongoing • Issues: Derivative Citizenship, Equal Protection, Fifth Amendment
Martinez v. Donahue; Benavides v. Gartland
In April 2020, Advancing Justice-Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Kilpatrick Townsend filed a habeas petition and civil rights complaint on behalf of several medically vulnerable immigrants detained at the three Georgia ICE detention centers to seek their release during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Indefinite Detention
Trinh v. Homan
In February 2018, Advancing Justice-Atlanta filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against ICE to challenge the prolonged and indefinite detention of Vietnamese refugees.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Prolonged Detention, Indefinite Detention
Singh v. Sessions
In May 2018, Advancing Justice-Atlanta appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals a federal judge’s decision denying the release of an immigrant whose removal ICE could not effectuate.
Status: Decided • Issues: Immigration Detention, Prolonged Detention, Indefinite Detention