Immigration
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Habeas Petition Filed Seeking Release of 18-Year-Old with Special Immigration Status Unlawfully Detained in Louisiana ICE Facility
Tags Share Washington, DC – Today, the National Immigration Project, the ACLU of Louisiana, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a habeas petition in federal court seeking the release of 18-year-old Carlos Guerra Leon. Carlos, who just graduated from high school in Spring Valley, New York earlier this year, has approved Special Immigrant Juvenile
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KLFY News: Ukrainian woman freed from Louisiana ICE facility; legal battle continues
A longtime Brooklyn resident, 50-year-old Larysa Kostak, was recently released from ICE custody following a lawsuit by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and partners – but her freedom remains uncertain.
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Louisiana Illuminator: ACLU sues to free Angola ICE detainee who’s already served sentence, has deportation protection
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a man illegally held in ICE detention in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison, despite having court-ordered protection from deportation and having already served his full criminal sentence for past convictions.
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Amaya v. Trump: Ending immigration detention at Angola
This case challenges the repurposing of a notorious, inhumane, and shuttered unit at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, as an immigration detention center used to indefinitely detain people as punishment for past crimes for which they have already served their time.
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The Washington Post: Issues with ICE
RFKHR attorneys Anthony Enriquez and Danielle McClain call out widespread corruption in the immigration detention system in a Washington Post letter to the editor.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share U.S. Assigned a Specialized Immigration Team to Target Campus Protesters When Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed by masked federal agents outside her Massachusetts home in March, the video of the Turkish graduate student being handcuffed and hustled into an unmarked vehicle spread around the world. A federal trial that ended Tuesday revealed for the first time the
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Don’t Pull the Ladder: Ending TPS for Cameroonians Now Creates Risk Without a Plan
Tags Share I’m writing as someone who has lived the story we too often file under a tidy word: migration. But there is a difference between choosing to move and being pushed out by violence, state repression, or fear. While both involve a decision about whether to stay or go, one is deliberate and planned;
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Time100 Next 2025: Efren Olivares
Writing in TIME Magazine, our president Kerry Kennedy honors Efrén Olivares, VP of Litigation and Legal Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center and one of our partners in the fight for immigrant justice.
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Savane v. Francis: Fighting arbitrary re-detention of asylum seekers
Federal court holds that ICE violated due process by detaining asylum seeker it had previously released on parole without first giving written notice.
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Newsweek: ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the ACLU of Louisiana and the National Immigration Project, recently filed multiple complaints exposing systemic abuse against immigrants at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.
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CNN: Kerry Kennedy on Erin Burnett OutFront
Our president Kerry Kennedy recently spoke with CNN anchor Erin Burnett about comedian Stephen Colbert’s selection as a 2025 Ripple of Hope award laureate.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Drop Off the Grid After Leaving Site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database.
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