Immigration
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
It is my conviction that there are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States. It is a source of embarrassment to us around the world. It is a source of loss to the economic and…
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
It is a source of anguish to many of our own citizens with relatives abroad . . . Under the law, an American citizen born in one country can get a maid or gardener overnight from another country but must wait a year or more to be reunited with his mother.
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Address at the Irish Institute, April 1, 1967
The time is long past when men bowed their heads or looked away from our heritage because of shame; indeed, the long roll of Senators and playwrights, poets and heroes, has given us full reason for pride.
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Address at the American G.I. Forum, Chicago, Illinois
The contributions made to this country by Spanish-derived culture through the ages are incalculable.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
When our forebears—yours and mine—came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Ever since the onset of the Cold War, we have been urged to “develop” a concise, exacting American manifesto— a platform which would compete with the simple, rousing calls of the Communists.
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Address at the Irish Institute of New York
There are already more Irishmen in this State of New York than in all the Republic of Ireland; if the tradition is to live, it will be by the memory of our minds and the work of our own hearts. I want that tradition
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Fauziya Kassindja
Biography: Fauziya Kassindja narrowly escaped female genital mutilation by fleeing from her remote village in Togo under cover of night and making her way to the United States where, in December 1994, she sought political asylum. Instead of receiving this seventeen-year-old orphan with understanding and humanity, U.S. officials proceeded to strip her naked, put her…
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Maria Teresa Tula
Biography: Maria Teresa Tula is a leader of the Co-Madres (Mothers of the Disappeared) of El Salvador, a group of impoverished, mostly illiterate women whose husbands or children were kidnapped or killed by death squads and government security forces during El Salvador’s bloody civil war. The 1980s conflict pitted leftist organizations and campesino farmer-based guerrillas…
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UN calls out U.S. violations of civil and political rights
Tags Share NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 3, 2023 – The UN Human Rights Committee today released its Concluding Observations denouncing the United States’ violations of civil and political rights, including widespread abuses in immigration detention facilities and the criminalization of lawful protesters. The report details the UN’s findings and conclusions of international law violations following its…
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UN Slams Biden Immigration Policy As Possible Treaty Breach
Tags Share The UN recently published a report criticizing President Joe Biden’s approach to immigration policy and noting the United States’ violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Speaking with Law360, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez comments on the news. “The Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations lay bare…
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RFKHR’s legal strategy to end indefinite immigration detention highlighted in habeas corpus lawsuit wins
Tags Share Every day, the United States government holds over 35,000 people in immigration detention while their immigration cases proceed. Using a nationwide network of jails and prisons located in rural communities isolated from legal assistance groups, the government cuts off immigrants’ access to lawyers and subjects thousands of people each year to prolonged detention…
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