This case challenges the government’s practice of arbitrarily arresting people without notice at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins after years of reporting without incident under an order of supervision.
Tags Share International Tribunal Condemns U.S. Border Officials for Torturing, Killing Immigrant Nearly 15 years after Anastasio Hernández Rojas’ wife began pushing for justice in her husband’s killing, an international human rights commission found that U.S. border officials were responsible for his death — and that they tortured him before he died. This is the first time that…
Case Citation Fulton v. Noem (2d Cir. filed Jan. 25, 2025) Fulton v. Mayorkas, 2025 WL 296051 (W.D.N.Y. Jan. 24, 2025) Tags Share
Tags Share For years, Louisiana has been a hotspot for immigrant detention, second only to Texas. Referencing recent high-profile cases of detained students, this New York Times article explores the factors behind Louisiana’s growing prominence in the United States’ immigration incarceration regime. The article also describes inhumane conditions, abuse, and neglect across the Louisiana ICE…
Tags Share Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department’s broad mission. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, the Southern Border Communities Coalition, and the Urban Justice Center. On March…
Tags Share The United States’ oldest immigration detention facility has a long history of abuse – a history that shows no signs of abating amid the Trump administration’s increased efforts to detain and deport immigrants. The Associated Press reports on inhumane conditions and overcrowding at Krome Detention Center in Miami, highlighting the lack of accountability for…
Tags Share Trump Guts Key Civil Rights Protections With New Executive Order On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would further weaken civil rights protections and make it more difficult for plaintiffs to prevail in discrimination cases in areas such as education, housing, health care and public benefits. The order instructs federal agencies to stop enforcing laws and regulations…
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C. — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Southern Border Communities Coalition, and Urban Justice Center – represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and Democracy Forward – filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to challenge the Trump administration’s decision last month to close DHS’s Office for Civil Rights…
Case Citation Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights et al. v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec. et al., 1:25-cv-01270 (D.D.C. filed Apr. 24, 2025) Tags Share Case Partners
Tags Share An assortment of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday aimed at stopping the Department of Homeland Security from permanently shuttering its internal oversight divisions after the Trump administration fired critical staff members, grinding operations to a halt. The lawsuit was filed in New York and brought by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights,…
Tags Share Immigrants’ rights groups, including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s dismantling key oversight offices. According to Bloomberg Government, the suit accuses DHS of violating the Constitution and federal law by shuttering its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and related teams. These…
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