NIJC, Sept. 20, 2024 "The U.S. government spends over three billion a year on the largest immigration detention apparatus in the world to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for decades or who arrived recently seeking safety or a better life...
IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility. Drawing on formal and informal investigations and inquiries...
ACLU, Sept. 23, 2024 "The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records regarding the agency’s potential plans to expand immigration detention across the country. The ACLU submitted...
Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 16, 2024 "Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the federal district...
Sept. 10, 2024 "Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Director Lechleitner, and Executive Associate Director Bible: We, the undersigned immigrant and civil rights organizations, legal services organizations, and law firms write to highlight our concerns with U.S. Immigration...
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 5, 2024 "[L]anguage-access failures [are] documented in a report published Thursday that concluded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was failing to provide adequate translation services mandated by federal...
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU, the ACLU of Louisiana, Immigration Services & Legal Advocacy, National Immigration Project, Aug. 26. 2024 "A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights , the ACLU ,...
Kate Sosin, The 19th, Aug. 21, 2024 "[A] new report, “ No Human Being Should Be Held Here ,” claims that nearly a third of *** detainees interviewed (18 out of 41) were sexually assaulted while in the custody of federal immigration authorities...
DHS OIG, Aug. 19, 2024 - Management Alert - ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Custody GAO, July 23, 2024 - Arrests, Removals, and Detentions Varied Over Time and ICE Should...
NJIC, Aug. 12, 2024 "A federal court in the Southern District of Indiana has ruled for the second time that individuals who suffered flooded cells and poor sanitation at the Clay County Jail can move forward with their lawsuit against Immigration and Customs...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of organizing in the state may well be a pair of private immigration...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will have significant, broader implications for other stateless...
Dan Gooding, Newsweek, June 28, 2024 "LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing persecution have reported being subjected to physical and verbal abuse while in U.S. custody, with some being driven to self-harm, left with hives or experiencing panic attacks. A new report from...
Eunice Hyunhye Cho, ACLU National Prison Project; Tessa Wilson, Senior Program Officer, PHR Asylum Program, June 25, 2024 "Since January 1, 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported that 68 people have died in its custody. This number...
As reported by El Paso immigration law superstar Taylor Levy (@taylorklevy on X) on June 6, 2024 , the ICE Online Detainee [a.k.a. "prisoner"] Locator web tool has been improved to include those prisoners " currently in CBP custody for 48 hours or...