The American Immigration Council led a coalition of immigration advocacy groups in suing the Trump administration over its rule requiring illegal immigrants to register with the federal government.

The Department of Homeland Security late last month announced that the agency will enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act, which includes a provision that failing to register and be fingerprinted is a crime punishable by a fine, imprisonment or both.

On Monday, the AIC, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigration Law Center, RFK Human Rights, and CASA, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, among others.

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