The case against the LA 8 began in January 1987, when the government arrested two immigrants and six others who became known as the LA 8. The government placed them in a maximum security prison, and...
Updated: November 28, 2007
Hany Ibrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Lupe Victoria Aguirre is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Prior to joining the staff, Lupe was an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at the Empire Justice Center in...
July 5, 2016Originally publised on Medium.com . Whether you ride public transportation every day to and from work or drive your own car. Whether you go to a public school with security guards or an upscale...
Civil Rights Groups Press Federal Court to Reinstate Lawsuit March 5, 2021, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a...
In June 2012, Mayor Edwin Lee of San Francisco, California stated that he was considering implementing a "New York City-style" stop and frisk policy. On August 2, 2012, the Center for Constitutional...
Updated: January 7, 2014
Priscilla Ocen is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches criminal law, family law, and a seminar on race, gender, and the law. Her work explores the ways in which race, gender,...
Priscilla Ocen is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches criminal law, family law, and a seminar on race, gender, and the law. Her work explores the ways in which race, gender,...
From Detention Watch Network (DWN) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigration Dragnet (2015) explores and exposes the depth of local...
Updated: May 24, 2019
“Race in the USA” is The New School’s second University course on post-election America, and is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the 2017 Henry Cohen Lecture Series of The Milano School of...
Updated: November 28, 2017
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