October 16, 2019...Immigrant advocates praised the ruling Friday, along with New York City and state officials. Attorney General Letitia James said, “The message today is clear. That immigrants are welcome to this...
October 16, 2019...The attorney general was joined by a coalition of civil rights groups, led by Make the Road New York. Ghita Schwarz, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said she had been “very...
October 16, 2019... The rule "would have have erected an invisible wall to basically keep" low-income immigrants out," Hasan Shafiqullah, attorney-in-charge of the Legal Aid Society's immigration law unit, said...
Fear grips immigrant communities threatened by Trump’s ‘public charge’ proposal “If you’re not wealthy, you’re not welcome.” Under the Trump administration’s proposed “public charge” rule, many green...
Updated: November 1, 2019
Ian Head is a Senior Legal Worker and Coordinator of the Open Records Project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’...
November 8, 2019...Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Baher Azmy argued the class members relied on the government’s representation they would have access to the asylum process if they waited in Mexico...
November 8, 2019...In Tijuana, there were roughly 9,600 names on the list, according to Al Otro Lado, a binational organization advocates for immigrants’ rights that provides pro-bono legal services to migrants...
November 8, 2019...U.S. officials have repeatedly said the right way to seek asylum is to request it at border crossings, instead of entering illegally. That has caused tens of thousands of migrants to wait in often...
Diala Shamas is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both...
Provides Important Protection for Those Previously Turned Back at Ports of Entry SAN DIEGO – A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of...
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