NM Supreme Court Issues Order Against Disclosure of Immigration-Related Information of Noncitizen Crime Victims (May 7, 2024) [pdf]

Press release from the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts on New Mexico Supreme Court’s issuance of two orders of superintending control quashing subpoenas that compelled that an immigrant victim turn over the contents of their U visa and T visa immigration case files to the perpetrator in the criminal case that the state brought against perpetrators of child trafficking and child sexual assault. The New Mexico Supreme Court also ordered that materials from the U and T visa files previously produced needed to be destroyed. Full opinion to be issued by the New Mexico Supreme Court at a later date. In one case the trial court ordered the U visa victim to turn over their immigration case file and in the second case the trial court ordered the victim’s immigration counsel to turn over the victim’s T visa case file. Both orders were reversed.