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ICE Begins Second Round of Deportations to Haiti During Humanitarian Crisis

April 15, 2011

April 15, 2011, New York and Miami – Today, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security resumed deportations of Haitian nationals...

ICE Formalizes Policy to Deport Haitians During Humanitarian Crisis

April 6, 2011

April 6, 2011, New York and Miami – Yesterday, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security announced its intent to continue...

Court Vindicates Prisoners in Right to Challenge Federal Experimental Isolation Units Restricting Communication

March 30, 2011

March 30, 2011, New York – Today, prisoners in two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs) won the right to have their day in court and...

CCR Calls for Obama Administration to Move from Rhetoric to Action in Complying with Human Rights Obligations

March 18, 2011

March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...

Federal Court Urged to Allow Post 9/11 Religious Profiling Suit to Proceed

March 11, 2011

Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...

CCR Responds to Impending King Hearings on So-Called Homegrown Muslim Terrorism

March 10, 2011

March 8, 2011, New York – In response to the impending hearings being held by United States Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on “The Extent of...

Victory in CCR and NLG Suit Against Virginia Prisons for Unconstitutional Censorship of Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook

March 1, 2011

March 1, 2011, New York and Charlottesville, VA – Today, t he Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) announced a settlement in their lawsuit in the Western...

Newly Released Secure Communities Documents Signal Opening for Local Opt-Out

February 17, 2011

Feb 16, 2011 – Today, advocates made available excepts of 15,000 pages of documents released following litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Center for Constitutional...

International Human Rights Commission Summons U.S. to Stop Deportations to Haiti Following First Deportee Death

February 4, 2011

February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...

CCR Warrantless Wiretapping Case Dismissed By Federal Judge

February 1, 2011

February 1, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the federal district court in San Francisco dismissed CCR v. Obama , a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...

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Press Releases

ICE Begins Second Round of Deportations to Haiti During Humanitarian Crisis

ICE Formalizes Policy to Deport Haitians During Humanitarian Crisis

Court Vindicates Prisoners in Right to Challenge Federal Experimental Isolation Units Restricting Communication

CCR Calls for Obama Administration to Move from Rhetoric to Action in Complying with Human Rights Obligations

Federal Court Urged to Allow Post 9/11 Religious Profiling Suit to Proceed

CCR Responds to Impending King Hearings on So-Called Homegrown Muslim Terrorism

Victory in CCR and NLG Suit Against Virginia Prisons for Unconstitutional Censorship of Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook

Newly Released Secure Communities Documents Signal Opening for Local Opt-Out

International Human Rights Commission Summons U.S. to Stop Deportations to Haiti Following First Deportee Death

CCR Warrantless Wiretapping Case Dismissed By Federal Judge

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