On May 24, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted Mr. Cardenas’ petition for review. The court vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 8-6 en banc decision...
Civil rights and community groups across the country denounce Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano’s plans to expand the highly criticized 287(g) program to eleven...
Open Letter in Response to the Closing of the Berks County Family Shelter Care Center and Solicitation of New Family Detention Beds Attention: John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs...
Updated: January 10, 2012
May 2014NEW YORK -- Justice Department lawyers faced tough questioning from federal judges Thursday over whether former high-level officials like John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller III can be held accountable...
HUMAN RIGHTS and DIGNITY for ALL For Children, For Workers, For Immigrants, For the Community YES to Family Unity! YES to Education for All! YES to Fair Labor! NO to Wage Theft! NO to Racial...
Updated: May 12, 2011
April 25, 2008, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou...
November 21, 2014, New York – In response to yesterday’s announcement that, as part of his new immigration policy, President Obama has terminated the Secure Communities deportation...
On October 31, 2013, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the City's request for a stay on the stop-and-frisk remedies mandated by the Federal district...
Updated: November 8, 2013
May 3, 2010 - Earlier this week our beloved son and brother Fahad pleaded guilty to a single charge of material support for terrorism. He took the plea after spending four years in prison, three of...
CCR's has published a new factsheet on NYPD Stop and Frisk Statistics from 2009 and 2010. Click here to access it . On September 9, 2008, the United States District Court in Manhattan ordered the New...
Updated: October 30, 2010
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