A free webinar from the Rapid Response program of the ABA Group: Civil Rights and Social Justice.
A letter from U.S. Senators Collins and Flake to DHS Secretary Nielsen and HSS Secretary Azar regarding the separation of immigrant families.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led all Judiciary Committee Democrats sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), calling on him to promptly hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s inhumane family separation policy. Since President Trump announced his “zero-tolerance” policy, nearly 2,500 children – some of them just infants – have been torn away from their families at the border.
The Keep Families Together Act is recently proposed legislation to end the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families at the border. The bill promotes family unity by prohibiting DHS officials from separating children from their parents, except in extraordinary circumstances.
Based on the analysis of independent medical experts, this 72-page report, examines the 15 “Detainee Death Reviews” ICE released from December 2015 through April 2017.
Immigration detention is growing at an unprecedented rate despite more humane, cost-effective alternatives that ensure due process. In May 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was funded to maintain detention levels of over 39,000 detention spaces each day. This resource highlights alternatives to detention, with special attention to when, why, and how these alternatives should be used.
This updated version of the Parental Interests Directive was recently made available to the public and contains new language and information.
Read moreThe ACLU of Massachusetts filed a class action lawsuit against President Trump and other administration officials on behalf of a Rhode Island resident and Guatemalan native, along with six similarly-situated plaintiffs, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The lawsuit argues that ICE’s efforts to detain and remove the non-citizens in the suit violates the rights of all petitioners under the due process and equal protection guarantees of the US Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act and its regulations, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Read MoreThis publication discusses sanctuary laws and provides facts about sanctuary policies, in order to help clarify some of the misinformation that has been spread about these policies.
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This report describes the legal liabilities local governments face when they honor ICE requests, known as “detainers,” to hold individuals past the completion of their criminal custody until immigration agents take them into administrative custody.
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