Collins-Flake Letter to Nielsen and Azar
U.S. Senate (June 16, 2018)
A letter from U.S. Senators Collins and Flake to DHS Secretary Nielsen and HSS Secretary Azar regarding the separation of immigrant families.
Leahy Leads Judiciary Democrats In Letter To Grassley Calling For Hearing On President Trump’s Family Separation Policy
U.S. Senate (June 18, 2018)
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.
Keep Families Together Act
U.S. House of Representatives (June, 18 2018)
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.
Code Red: The Fatal Consequences of Dangerously Substandard Medical Care in Immigration Detention
Human Rights Watch (June 2018)
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.
The Real Alternatives to Detention
Women’s Refugee Commission (June 27, 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.
Detention and Removal of Alien Parents or Legal Guardians (formerly Parental Interests Directive)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (August 29, 2017)
This updated version of the Parental Interests Directive was recently made available to the public and contains new language and information.
Read moreACLU files class action against ICE, President Trump detainment policy
Erin McCarthy Holliday, Jurist (April 12, 2018)
The 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 MoreThe Current State of Sanctuary Law
Southern Poverty Law Center (3/8/2018)
This 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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Assumption of Risk: Legal Liabilities for Local Governments that Choose to Enforce Federal Immigration Laws
American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center (March 6, 2018)
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.
Read ReportKnow Your Parental Rights If You Are Arrested by ICE Inside the United States
Women’s Refugee Commission (March 3, 2018)
These fact sheets provide information and guidance in both English and Spanish about a parent’s rights in the event they are arrested by ICE in the interior of the U.S.
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