Immigration
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DeSantis could unwittingly have paved way for interstate collaboration on asylum seekers
Tags Share Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest piece of political theater has unwittingly created a path for leaders to work together on a humane response to the arrival of asylum-seekers in our country. DeSantis set aside $12 million to charter private planes to fly asylum-seekers to remote Northeast towns and now faces a federal class…
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On Anniversary of Del Rio Disaster, Immigration Advocates Demand End to Haitian Removals
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15th, 2022 Contact: Alexandra Gulden alexandra@quixote.org Washington DC—On the one-year anniversary of the human rights disaster in Del Rio, Texas, the Quixote Center and 19 organizational co-sponsors are delivering a petition to the White House calling on the Biden administration to halt all removals of Haitian migrants, including interdictions…
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Haitian Bridge Alliance v. DHS: Exposing Anti-Black Discrimination at the Border
This case is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 2022 – The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by…
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‘Our duty as human rights advocates is to make them understand’
Tags Share It was an opportunity to tell the true story of discrimination against Black immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers by the U.S government, a story that largely goes untold, and reframe it for the international community. The week of Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Vice President for Domestic Advocacy and Litigation Anthony…
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Request for Thematic Hearing on Deportations of Haitian Nationals from the U.S. to Haiti During the 185th Period of Sessions of the IACHR
Tags Share August 15, 2022 Tania Reneaum Panszi Executive Secretary Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1889 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 cidhoea@oas.org cidhprotecction@oas.org Re: Request for Thematic Hearing on Deportations of Haitian Nationals from the United States to Haiti During the 185th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Dear Secretary…
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Human rights groups support United Nations in confronting U.S. government on racially discriminatory immigration policies
Tags Share GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 12, 2022 – Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights applaud the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for asking poignant and demanding questions to the U.S. government about its racially discriminatory immigration practices, particularly those…
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RFKHR at the United Nations: Why the U.S. doesn’t have reliable statistics to measure anti-Black discrimination in U.S. immigration
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights 2021 HRA Laureate Guerline Jozef, president of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, testified before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international treaties the U.S. has signed on to. The topic? The continual systemic mistreatment of Black migrants…
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Partner, HRA Laureate Jozef addresses U.N. about human rights abuses to Black migrants
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Human Rights Award laureate Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, addressed the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international human rights treaties the country has signed on to. A key partner, Jozef…
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Shadow Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Tags Share This Shadow Report is submitted for the combined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth periodic review of the United States (“US”) by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (“Committee”). The Report provides selected research and analysis focusing on US immigration and refugee laws, regulations, policies, and practices that subject Black non-citizens to racially…
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Kerry Kennedy: Demanding Accountability for the Human Rights Abuses at Del Rio, Texas
Tags Share Over the weekend, the Border Patrol released a 500-page report on its official investigation into the humanitarian catastrophe that occurred at Del Rio, Texas in September 2021, when over 15,000 Haitian and other Black immigrants huddled at a makeshift encampment, seeking asylum. Officials must have hoped that no one would notice that their…
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