October 12, 2018 – This week, a Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center for five months, separated from and barred from communicating with his two-year-old son, was...
CBP Denial of Access to Asylum Process Puts Migrants at Risk of Violence and Death, Lawsuit Says October 15, 2018, Washington, D.C. – In a new court filing, asylum seekers and an immigrant rights...
Sunday marked the third anniversary of the landmark settlement agreement in Ashker v. California , the class action lawsuit that ended indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons. We have...
Immigrant father who challenged his detention and a five-month incommunicado separation from his infant son released on bond A Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center...
...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
Calls Government-Imposed Separation “Most Cruel of All Cruelties” October 15, 2018, New York — Today, a federal judge ordered the immediate reunification of an immigrant father and his two-year-old...
...If Turkey, as an ally of the U.S., were to report a suspicion of support for terrorism, "surely it would result in placement on the list," says American attorney Shane Kadidal of the Center for...
..."I already feel the pain going away," said the father after the hearing. "I feel very grateful with the judge who made the decision to give me my child and also with the people who are helping me...
... The Center for Constitutional Rights took up Mr C’s case and he was freed from detention on Wednesday. On Thursday, he filed paperwork to be reunited with his son. “Friday, the child should’ve...
... But lead attorney Pam Spees of the Center for Constitutional Rights , who is working on the case with Misha Mitchell, an attorney with the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, doesn’t see the victory as...
