Immigration
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The Dominican Republic’s Century-Long History of Racism
The Dominican Republic wants to build a border wall. It should learn from America’s mistakes.
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Comunicado Sobre La Decisión De La Suprema Corte De Justicia De La República Dominicana en Relación a La Nulidad Del Acta De Nacimiento Original De Juliana Deguis Pierre
Tags Share El Movimiento Socio-Cultural de los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA), el equipo legal de la Red Jacques Viau, la Fundación Derechos Vigentes, el Instituto Internacional sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la decisión adoptada el 27 de febrero de 2021 por la Suprema Corte…
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Denationalization and Anti-Immigrant Policies in the Dominican Republic
Tags Share The Socio-Cultural Movement of Haitian Workers (MOSCTHA for its Spanish acronym), the legal team of the Jacques Viau Network, the Fundación Derechos Vigentes, the Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights express our deep concern over the decision adopted on February 27, 2021 by the Dominican Republic’s…
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Indiana presidential primary
Description Robert Kennedy waving with his right hand (the shirt sleeve button on his right arm is either missing or undone) in Indianapolis on the occasion of his registration for the Indiana presidential primary. Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code),…
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Groups Unite to Post Millions of Dollars in Bonds to Free Immigrants
Tags Share For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network, Detention Watch Network, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, have begun posting $3 million in bond to…
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We Urge ICE to Release Pastor Steven Tendo from Detention
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights calls on U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to immediately release Pastor Steven Tendo from the Port Isabel Detention Center where he is at risk of serious and permanent damage to his health, or even death. Pastor Steven fled his home country of Uganda to seek political asylum…
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The U.S. Must Comply with International Refugee Protection Standards
We oppose a rule proposed by the Trump administration that eviscerates the U.S. asylum system.
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Grave Conditions at Carmichael Immigrant Detention Center
Tags Share Washington D.C. (June 12, 2020)—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins local human rights activists to express concern about the situation of migrants currently detained at Carmichael Road Immigrant Detention Center (“Carmichael Detention Center”) in The Bahamas, particularly in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, detainees’ concerns about COVID-19 in the facility…
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Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Suspending Immigration
Tags Share At a time when our leaders should be bringing this country together, Donald Trump continues to sow division and hate. His call to suspend immigration to the U.S. is nothing more than a shameless attempt to blame immigrants for his own administration’s failure to competently manage the coronavirus crisis. Xenophobia should have no…
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RFK Human Rights Launches Bold Immigration Initiative
The $5 million effort will bring critical attention to the immigration crisis beyond the atrocities at the southern border, including the destructive immigration raids and arrests occurring throughout the country.
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NowThis: Families Separated Across the Border Meet at Friendship Park
Tags Share During a delegation trip to Mexico, representatives from RFK Human Rights and Al Otro Lado visited Friendship Park, the only federally designated binational meeting place where families separated by the U.S.-Mexico border can come together. It’s estimated that between 2011 and 2013, roughly half a million children who are U.S. citizens experienced the…
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RFK Human Rights Urges The Bahamas to Halt Deportations Post Hurricane Dorian
Tags Share Washington, D.C., October 21, 2019 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is gravely concerned following the Bahamian government’s treatment of migrants, predominantly from Haiti, in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, and its intent to deport migrants who sought refuge in shelters after the hurricane. Discriminatory policies against Haitians and Bahamians of Haitian descent…
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