Federal Courts and DOJ

U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins ruled that DACA recipient Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez was removed to Mexico in a "flagrant violation" of her DACA protections and due process, ordering the federal government to facilitate her return within seven days and to restore all rights and benefits attached to her DACA status. Coggins rejected the government's jurisdictional defense that Estrada Juarez should have sought emergency relief and relied in part on precedent from litigation over Kilmar Abrego Garcia—where courts ordered remedies after alleged unlawful removals amid the administration’s deportation efforts—to require the government to remedy the removal.