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Courthouse News Services: State Department faces lawsuit over migrant detention agreement with El Salvador

“Ten of our clients were kidnapped from U.S. streets and locked away in one of the world’s most notorious blackhole prisons in a scheme to use U.S. taxpayer dollars for enforced disappearances, incommunicado detention and torture.”

Quoted in Courthouse News Service, our vice president of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation Anthony Enriquez describes RFK Human Rights’  lawsuit against the State Department over a controversial migrant detention agreement with El Salvador. The deal, which involves paying El Salvador to detain deported individuals, is being challenged for violating U.S. asylum laws and international human rights standards, exposing migrants to further abuse and illegal detention practices.

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New year, new us. Same mission.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

While our name is changing, our mission and work remain the same. We will continue to fight injustice, advance human rights, and hold governments accountable around the world in 2026 and beyond.