
Tags Share I’m writing as someone who has lived the story we too often file under a tidy word: migration. But there is a difference between choosing to move and being pushed out by violence, state repression, or fear. While both involve a decision about whether to stay or go, one is deliberate and planned;…
Writing in TIME Magazine, our president Kerry Kennedy honors Efrén Olivares, VP of Litigation and Legal Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center and one of our partners in the fight for immigrant justice.
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.

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.…
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.
Stephen Colbert will receive the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for using humor to challenge injustice and promote human rights.
Stephen Colbert will be honored with the Robert K. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award this December.

Tags Share New York, NY, September 24, 2025 – Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, today announced that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has been named a 2025 Ripple of Hope Award laureate. As one of the most influential satirists of his generation,…
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

Tags Share On August 21st, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted its most recent book club with author and journalist Jonathan Blitzer to discuss his Robert F. Kennedy Book Award-winning debut. Everyone Who is Gone is Here tells the epic story of the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, delving into the…

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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