United States
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ABC News: Immigration courts dismissing cases of Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador: Attorneys
Tags Share Immigration courts are dismissing the cases of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, sparking alarm among lawyers and human rights advocates who say the move violates due process. Attorneys say these migrants, many with pending asylum claims or legal protections like TPS, were deported without fair hearings, and…
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette: At Pa.’s largest detention center, immigrant safety endangered as cuts cripple DHS oversight arm
Tags Share At Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center, Moshannon Valley, conditions have become increasingly dangerous amid severe cuts to the Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights oversight office. A sweeping investigation into death, abuse, medical neglect, sexual harassment, and excessive solitary confinement has been jeopardized after the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL)…
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Ending solitary confinement in immigration detention: a guide to litigation and advocacy strategies
Tags Share Egregious abuse of solitary confinement is found throughout the U.S. immigration detention system. From 2017 to 2021, the United States imprisoned immigrants in solitary confinement over 14,500 times. In 2017, the average duration of placement was 33 days; in 2022, the average was 22 days, with a high duration of 242 days. The…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share DHS Says it Won’t Eliminate Oversight Offices but is Still Pursuing Layoffs The Homeland Security Department is no longer planning on shuttering three oversight offices whose entire workforces were told in March that they were being laid off. Officials are still going through with reductions in force, however, leading to continued questions from…
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RFK Human Rights, Adasina Social Capital, and FreeCap Launch New Briefs Highlighting Financial Risks of Private Prison Investments
Tags Share New York, NY, May 29, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with Adasina Social Capital and FreeCap Financial, has released the first in a new quarterly series of investor risk briefs detailing financial risks for shareholders of GEO Group and CoreCivic, private prison companies operating upwards of 90% of U.S.…
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91.5 KJZZ Phoenix: DHS oversight offices return to function, but questions remain about their future
Tags Share Almost all employees at three key oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were laid off when the agency closed them in March, citing a shift in mission. Speaking with KJZZ Phoenix, Anthony Enriquez, Vice President of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, criticized the move, emphasizing…
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Immigrants’ rights organizations file FOIA lawsuit over illegal age determination procedures for unaccompanied immigrant children
Tags Share New York, NY, May 28, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana last week filed suit for records of a government investigation on coercion of unaccompanied immigrant children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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RFK Human Rights publishes resource guide for victims of arbitrary detention
Tags Share Washington, D.C., May 28, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today published a new guide that outlines best practices for engaging with the United States government on arbitrary and wrongful detention cases. The guide was created as a practical resource for family members of individuals who are arbitrarily detained overseas. It is…
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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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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Exposing coercion of unaccompanied children
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose the U.S. government’s practice of depriving unaccompanied immigrant children of legal protections from deportation and imprisonment in adult detention centers by destroying their birth certificates, coercing false confessions of adulthood, and falsifying age records through racially biased, pseudo-scientific forensic tests.
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DHS Reverses Decision to Abolish Three Key Civil Rights Offices
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security today announced that it will not abolish the Department’s Offices for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, or the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, reversing a previous move to shutter the offices. In short notes at the top of each office’s…
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Guide on Engaging the United States Government on Arbitrary or Wrongful Detention Cases
Tags Share Addressing arbitrary and wrongful detention through advocacy and litigation is an area of extensive expertise and experience for RFK Human Rights. In the last decade, we have worked with families of arbitrarily and wrongfully detained individuals, including US persons, to facilitate their release and return home. A central reflection from our engagements with…
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