U.S. Advocacy and Litigation
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share U.S. Assigned a Specialized Immigration Team to Target Campus Protesters When Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed by masked federal agents outside her Massachusetts home in March, the video of the Turkish graduate student being handcuffed and hustled into an unmarked vehicle spread around the world. A federal trial that ended Tuesday revealed for the first time the
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Savane v. Francis: Fighting arbitrary re-detention of asylum seekers
Federal court holds that ICE violated due process by detaining asylum seeker it had previously released on parole without first giving written notice.
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Newsweek: ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the ACLU of Louisiana and the National Immigration Project, recently filed multiple complaints exposing systemic abuse against immigrants at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.
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CNN: Kerry Kennedy on Erin Burnett OutFront
Our president Kerry Kennedy recently spoke with CNN anchor Erin Burnett about comedian Stephen Colbert’s selection as a 2025 Ripple of Hope award laureate.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Drop Off the Grid After Leaving Site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database.
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Practice Advisory: Challenging Revocation of Orders of Supervision through Habeas Corpus
This advisory and template brief outline arguments to prevent arrest or seek release from detention for a non-citizen with a final order of removal whose order of supervision has been or may be revoked at an ICE check-in.
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Ceesay v. Kurzdorfer: Defending due process at ICE check-ins
This case before the Second Circuit defends a lower court decision holding that the government violates due process when it detains someone at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in without following its own regulations.
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WIRED: DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly uncovered government data reveals that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been quietly collecting DNA samples from nearly 2,000 U.S. citizens, including minors, and funneling them into the FBI’s criminal DNA database, CODIS
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Increasingly Places Immigrants in Solitary Confinement, Report Finds Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people
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News 15 (KADN): Civil rights groups blame private contractor after sexual abuse accusations at Basile ICE facility
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights recently filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging sexual abuse at an ICE detention center in Basile, Louisiana.
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The Buffalo News: Human rights groups sue Trump administration over arrest of Cuban citizen in Buffalo
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners have filed a lawsuit on behalf of J.M.A., a Cuban asylum seeker wrongfully detained in a New York ICE facility.
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Verite News: Complaints allege sexual and physical abuse at Basile ICE facility
Current and former detainees at a Louisiana ICE detention center have filed civil rights complaints through Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and its partners, accusing prison officers and ICE employees of repeated sexual harassment, abuse, forced labor, and neglect of urgent medical care.
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