Immigration
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A state-federal partnership to help immigrants
Tags Share An efficient, fair immigration system won’t come from more detention centers and faster deportations that Congress is considering in its current budget bill. Writing in The Washington Post, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez highlights how New York City is piloting an innovative approach to migrant reception – one that…
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Pine Prairie’s Depopulation Prompts Celebration, Demand for Eradication of Immigrant Detention in Louisiana
Tags Share After years of advocacy, reporting, and legal action by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, grassroots organizations, and detained persons, for-profit immigrant detention center Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana has been fully depopulated as of the end of 2023. The move, celebrated by those who have worked for the Pine Prairie’s closure…
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As ICE Ends Use of Notorious Detention Facility in Louisiana, Advocates Call for Releases
Tags Share Pine Prairie, LA, December 20, 2023 – The Southeast Dignity Not Detention (SDND) coalition, a group of local and national organizations committed to immigrants’ rights, today applauds the impending closure of the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center (Pine Prairie), a remote immigrant detention center in Louisiana with a long history of human rights…
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Report reveals continued horrific practices at ICE jail in Louisiana, demands closure
Tags Share An ICE jail in Louisiana operated by a private prison company remains at full capacity, even after government investigators decried its abusive culture and the Biden Administration pledged to seriously reduce its population. Hoping to change that course, a group of human rights organizations have released a report detailing the Winn Correctional Center’s…
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Pressure to shut down Louisiana detention center mounts with release of reported abuses
Tags Share Reckon Media highlights a new report co-authored by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights that documents years of abuse and torture at Winn Correctional Center in Lousiana. Staff attorney Sarah Decker comments on Winn’s history of human rights violations, including abusive use of solitary confinement. “We very frequently see ICE weaponizing solitary confinement,” she…
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Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, notorious detention facility in Louisiana, to close by the end of the year
Share After years of advocacy, reporting, and legal action by RFK Human Rights, grassroots organizations, and detained individuals, Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, a for-profit immigrant detention center run by the GEO Group, is expected to end its operations by the end of the year. Pine Prairie has long been plagued by egregious human rights…
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Citing history of alleged abuse, groups call on ICE to end contract at former La. prison
Tags Share Speaking with Verite News, our staff attorney Sarah Decker calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to shut down Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana ICE detention center with a long history of violence, abuse and negligence.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
For two centuries, my own country has struggled to overcome the self-imposed handicap of prejudice and discrimination based on nationality, social class or race
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Address, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
There is a new world about us— beset by hunger, energized by revolution, largely controlled by that half of the world’s people who are under the age of 25.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Of some 400,000 domestic migratory workers, 92,000 could find work for less than 25 days in 1960. The remainder, who’d worked more than 25 days, earned an average of $1,000 for the year.
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Remarks to Senate
No group of immigrants made greater contributions to America than the Irish. Railroads and factories, schools and hospitals, and churches—
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
Oscar Handlin, the historian, observed: “Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” Let us remember that history and look with confidence to the future, recognizing that our investment in new citizens will be repaid thousands of times over.
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