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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration law It would be comforting to believe that what we are witnessing in U.S. immigration policy is simply the product of one man’s authoritarian impulses. It would also be wrong. President Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. Like…
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Practice Advisory: Seeking Release from Immigration Detention in the Fifth Circuit After Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi
This advisory outlines some of the avenues remaining for challenging immigration detention under § 1225(b)(2)(A) in the Fifth Circuit after Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi.
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Quarterly Investor Risk Briefs for Private Prison Companies Geo Group and CoreCivic
Our quarterly investor risk briefs highlight timely risks for shareholders in GEO Group and CoreCivic.
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New settlement for Louisiana family in racially-motivated police violence case
The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Southern Poverty Law Center have secured a settlement for their client Wesley Pigott and his two children Mya and K.P., a Louisiana family that was subjected to racially-motivated police violence.
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The Hill: Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration laws
Just over one year into his second term, Trump continues to exploit long-standing legal loopholes to fulfill his immigration agenda.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration law It would be comforting to believe that what we are witnessing in U.S. immigration policy is simply the product of one man’s authoritarian impulses. It would also be wrong. President Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. Like…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detained at a School Bus Stop
For more than thirty years, David did exactly what the United States government asked of him.
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Rolling Stone: When a Journalist Is Arrested, Democracy Is the One in Handcuffs
The recent arrest of journalist Don Lemon has sparked alarm among press freedom advocates across the United States. Lemon was taken into custody after documenting anti-immigration enforcement protesters who disrupted a worship service in St. Paul, Minnesota. He now faces charges including conspiracy to deprive rights and interference with religious freedoms for actions taken in…
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Michelin v. Warden of Moshannaon Valley Corr. Ctr: Preserving accountability for arbitrary immigration detention
Third Circuit holds that immigrants can recover attorneys’ fees in successful habeas corpus suits.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Life for immigrant families in detention: sick children, no doctors They stole a few hours sleep under glaring LED lights, crowded in by dozens of other detainees. They shivered through fevers and flus and prayed deadlier diseases weren’t stalking their confines. Then, just as they feared their confinement would linger indefinitely, they were released.…
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Investigative Post: ICE Now Targeting Afghans, Rule Followers
Investigative Post reports that ICE has begun arresting asylum seekers at their mandated check-in appointments and has significantly increased enforcement actions against Afghan nationals across Western New York. Federal lawsuits filed over the past month describe asylum seekers with pending court hearings being instructed to report to ICE offices, only to be detained despite being…
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