Immigration
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Notorious Louisiana Prison The maximum-security prison known as Angola, notorious for a history of violence and harsh conditions, has long been the repository for Louisiana’s worst offenders. Most inmates arrive with life sentences. Now, the prison, officially the Louisiana State Penitentiary, will also hold immigrants who have…
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Immigration advocates denounce U.S. government’s refusal to participate in UN review process
Tags Share New York, NY, September 4, 2025 – Five nonprofit organizations that testified during the United States Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Pre-Session in Geneva last week are denouncing the U.S. government’s unprecedented move to boycott the UPR proceedings. Calling out the United States’ escalating abuse of immigrants and asylum seekers, the nonprofits have pledged…
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Dispatches from Detention: Locked up Indefinitely
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, Batavia, New York “When will this end?” – Marcus, a lawful permanent resident Marcus, a Black man…
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Amid increase in anti-Latino violence, attorneys urge international commission to hear years-old murder case
Tags Share New York, NY, August 26, 2025 – Attorneys at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and LatinoJustice PRLDEF last week petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to hear the case of Oswaldo Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who was murdered in 2008 in a racially-motivated attack by a group of teenagers. In…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid When Trump announced on Aug. 11 that he would deploy hundreds of National Guard members and federalize the local police to “take back” the capital, he framed the mission as a crackdown on violent crime. He cited cases of…
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Pataraia v. Noem: Fighting indefinite detention after winning an immigration case
This case challenges the U.S. government’s policy of indefinitely detaining people who have won immigration relief from deportation after a finding that they will be persecuted or tortured if deported to their countries of origin.
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Savane v. Francis: Stopping the expansion of mandatory detention
This case challenges the mandatory detention of Ousmane Savane, a 22-year-old asylum seeker. Under a new interpretation of an old law that was previously applied only to people seeking admission at the border, the U.S. government claims that people like Ousmane, who have resided for years in the United States, must be locked in mandatory…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share These Civil Rights Advocates Toured Louisiana ICE Detention Centers. Here’s What They Saw. In late July, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided access to three detention centers they operate in Louisiana to a group of about 20 civil rights advocates. Their tour included the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, located on…
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News4JAX: A man spent 88 days in solitary confinement at the Baker County ICE detention center. His experience led to a lawsuit
Tags Share Two immigrants are suing Florida’s Baker County Detention Center, alleging abuse in solitary confinement. Guillermo Serrabi says officers pressured him to sign deportation papers, assaulted him, and denied medical care during 88 days in isolation. A second lawsuit, filed by “Ana Doe,” claims she was punished after requesting menstrual products and strapped into…
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New lawsuit demands public records on evidence-based alternatives to immigration detention
Tags Share New York, NY, August 11, 2025 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a federal lawsuit seeking answers as to why the Trump administration funneled billions in taxpayer dollars to private prison executives for expansion of immigration detention while at the same time quietly dismantling a cheaper, community-based national program that…
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Louisiana Illuminator: These civil rights advocates toured Louisiana ICE detention centers. Here’s what they saw.
Tags Share In late July, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave civil rights advocates access to three of Louisiana’s nine detention centers, including the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Alexandria that is now a hub for transfers from across the country. Advocates say the facilities, ringed with barbed wire and run like prisons, reveal…
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Louisiana Illuminator, ‘The Light Switch’ podcast: Inside ICE’s Louisiana detention centers
Tags Share Last month, a group of civil rights advocates toured three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in Louisiana, part of a network of nine facilities that have processed tens of thousands of people this year under President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Among those on the tour were Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert…
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