June 12, 2015Every day, federal officials are obligated to pay to hold 500 immigrants behind bars at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach to meet a contract with the for-profit prison, according to a...
June 12, 2015The Obama administration is under growing pressure to change its policies governing the detention of thousands of migrants who came to the United States illegally. Maybe it is a coincidence, but...
June 17, 2015Saying that high-ranking Bush administration officials may have taken part in grave constitutional violations after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday revived a...
November 26, 2015Hours after President Barack Obama signed into law a defense bill that continues to thwart closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a group of human rights activists is staging a vigil and...
June 8, 2016Earlier this year, a man named Mohammed Bawazir, one of dozens of remaining Guantanamo detainees whom the Obama administration has cleared for release and is working to transfer, rejected an offer of...
June 8, 2017In terms of a civil lawsuit, when is a win not a win? Possibly when the judge, though ruling in your favor, takes pains to describe your views as "ludicrious," "abhorrent," "pathetic" and examples of...
July 23, 2018...Dubbed ICEwatch, the interactive project , released Monday, is the culmination of years of work by the Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two of New York City’s...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas , on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 from 6pm-8pm, as she celebrates and discusses her chapter in "New York After 9/11" entitled "...
Updated: February 8, 2019
February 28, 2019...The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the Iraqis pursuing the lawsuit, stated in a press release, “Judge Leonie Brinkema’s rejection of CACI’s latest motions means that, nearly 15...
May 17, 2021...The Trump-era policy responsible for the fines was ended by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
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