Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: August 10, 2022
Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, et al. , is a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a...
Updated: August 10, 2022
The lawsuit seeks to compel both the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release documents pertaining to “Operation Palladium,” an...
Updated: July 13, 2022
Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ) and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
Updated: July 13, 2022
Cameroon is in the midst of an intense civil war that has displaced 700,000 people and left 3.9 million in need of humanitarian support. Cameroonian security forces have been responsible for...
Updated: July 13, 2022
In July 2020, ICE announced it would be holding a "Citizens Academy" in Chicago, Illinois where civilian invitees would be trained in various enforcement techniques used by the law enforcement agency...
Updated: July 13, 2022
The purpose of the FOIA request and lawsuit is to obtain information for the public about federal agencies' policies of imposing fines and monetary penalties on individuals, specifically immigrants...
Updated: July 13, 2022
D.J.C.V. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") is a habeas corpus case on behalf of D.J.C.V., a two-year old child, and his father, Mr. C., who are asylum seekers from Honduras. They...
Updated: June 8, 2022
Leaders of the National Sanctuary Collective and allied organizations filed a challenge ICE’s practice of issuing exorbitant civil fines against people who have taken sanctuary in houses of worship,...
Updated: April 27, 2022
Between April and May 2021, Freedom for Immigrants’ National Immigration Detention Hotline received numerous complaints of incidents of abuse from immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs...
Updated: September 15, 2021
Since taking office, the Trump administration has been committed in its attack against low-income immigrants of color. One of its priorities has been to transform the system of family-based...
Updated: March 9, 2021
In 2003, in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas , the United States Supreme Court declared that state statutes that criminalize sodomy are unconstitutional. In its sweeping decision, the Supreme...
Updated: March 4, 2021
Lawsuit on behalf of Vermont-based Migrant Justice against ICE, DHS, and the Vermont DMV.
Updated: March 4, 2021
Since taking office, the Trump administration has been committed in its attack against low-income immigrants of color. One of its priorities has been to transform the system of family-based...
Updated: March 3, 2021
Non-profit, grassroots organizations fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees to challenge a Trump administration asylum ban rule.
Updated: February 17, 2021
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