Immigration
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Ceesay v. Kurzdorfer: Defending Due Process at ICE Check-ins
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.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
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…
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Fulton v. Noem: Ensuring access to medical care upon release from ICE detention
This case challenges the government’s refusal to provide discharge planning to a man scheduled for release from immigration detention who is almost certain to die unless provided dialysis.
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The New York Times: Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana. It’s No Coincidence.
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…
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Associated Press: Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted
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…
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The AP: As Immigrant Arrests Surge, Complaints of Abuse Mount At America’s Oldest Detention Center In Miami
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…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
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…
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Groups Sue Secretary Noem, DHS, for Shuttering of Civil Rights Offices
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…
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Ensuring oversight of immigration enforcement
This case challenges the executive branch’s sudden closure of three oversight offices within the Department of Homeland Security that Congress mandated be created, funded, and staffed in order to safeguard human rights and protect the public from government wrongdoing.
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New York Times: Lawsuit Aims to Reverse Firings at Internal Oversight Offices Within D.H.S.
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,…
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Bloomberg Government: Homeland Agency’s Dismantling of Oversight Units Draws Lawsuit
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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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Directs Judges to Deny Asylum Without Hearings A new Trump administration policy urges immigration judges to swiftly deny asylum to migrants whose applications they deem unlikely to succeed. The expedited dismissals would circumvent the normal hearing process, which typically takes years to wind through the backlogged courts. Trump Measures Make Life…
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