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...
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...
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...
October 6, 2018, New York – In response to the Senate’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: The Center for...
Civil Rights Group Argues Family Separation Meets Legal Standard for Torture October 4, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed in a Manhattan court for the immediate...
September 24, 2018, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s proposal to designate hundreds of thousands of immigrants as potential “public charges,” the Center for Constitutional Rights...
September 24, 2018, Mahwah, NJ – On Friday, September 21, the Ramapough Lenape Nation Tribe filed an amended complaint against the township of Mahwah, NJ, and a local homeowner’s association, for...
Groups Condemn False Conflation of Sexual Orientation and Sexual Violence in Former Vatican Ambassador’s Letter as “Wrong and Dangerous” August 30, 2018, Washington D.C. -- Clergy sex abuse survivors...
August 24, 2018, San Diego – A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) practice of turning away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border...
August 15, 2018, New York – In the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing widespread sexual violence across the state and cover-up by senior leaders of the Catholic Church in...