Immigration
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ‘It is Hell’: Migrants Returning to Venezuela Describe Life in El Salvador Prison Where U.S. Sent Them Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and other officials have said many of the immigrants were physically and psychologically tortured during their detention in El Salvador, airing on state television videos of some of the men describing the…
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Miami Herald: Woman in crisis was stripped, strapped to chair at Florida ICE center, suit says
Tags Share A Colombian woman who was a victim of human trafficking is suing the Baker County ICE detention center in Florida, alleging that officers stripped, restrained, and mocked her while she was in the midst of a mental health crisis. Detained after asking for feminine hygiene products, she was placed in solitary confinement for…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.…
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Louisiana Illuminator: LSU students detained by ICE released after judge’s order
Tags Share Two Iranian-born LSU Ph.D. students were released from ICE detention after a federal judge intervened, following weeks of being held under questionable and deceptive circumstances. Despite having valid legal status to study in the U.S., they were arrested shortly after U.S. military action in Iran, raising serious concerns about politically motivated targeting. Robert…
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WBRZ: Attorneys, advocates for released LSU Iranian students concerned with timing of clients’ arrest
Tags Share Two Iranian LSU students were arrested by ICE under false pretenses just one day after U.S. bombings in Iran. They were then held for weeks without any clear explanation of the charges against them. Represented in federal court by the ACLU of Louisiana and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the students were eventually…
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Slate: A Former ICE Official Is Worried the Agency Is About to Go on a Spree of Hiring Proud Boys
Tags Share ICE just received a staggering $29.9 billion from President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”, tripling its budget while dismantling the very oversight designed to prevent abuse. As part of its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration eliminated key DHS oversight offices until a lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights forced them…
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Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Seeking Justice for Woman Abused at a Florida Immigration Detention Center
Tags Share Miami, FL, July 17, 2025 – Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU of Florida, and Gibson Dunn filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a 33-year-old woman named Ana* who was subject to abuse while she was held at the Baker County Detention Center, a county jail operating as an Immigration…
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In Historic Victory, Iranian LSU Students Released After Unlawful ICE Detention in Louisiana
Tags Share The ACLU of Louisiana today announces the release and complete dismissal of all removal proceedings against Iranian LSU students Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad and Parisa Firouzabadi, who are married, after they were unlawfully arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Their release follows two separate habeas corpus petitions filed by the ACLU of…
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Doe v. Rhoden et al: Stopping sexual abuse in immigration detention
Ana Doe (a pseudonym) is a 33-year-old woman who survived human trafficking only to be sexually abused by guards at Florida’s Baker County Detention Facility.
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WIRED: DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children
Tags Share The U.S. government has been quietly collecting DNA from migrant children on a massive scale and is now storing their genetic profiles in an FBI criminal database built to track violent offenders. In a searing new report, Senator Ron Wyden demanded answers from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, accusing the Trump…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detained for Riding a Bike without a Light
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, Jena, Louisiana “I was just going home from the store.” – Wilmer, 19, from Nicaragua Wilmer,…
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