Federal judge dismisses Portland nonprofit’s case alleging ICE blocks access to lawyers

The lawsuit came in the wake of Operation Black Rose, an operation the federal government launched in October 2025 to arrest immigrants living across the Willamette Valley. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a Portland-based immigration law firm seeking to ensure federal agents allow detained immigrants access to legal counsel. The decision comes nearly one year after the CLEAR Clinic first filed the lawsuit alongside Pineros y Campesinos del Noroeste, Oregon’s largest Latino labor union also known as PCUN, and Leon X, an anonymous 32-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient from Mexico. In her Thursday ruling, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken approved the groups’ request to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning they could file a similar lawsuit.

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