May 6, 2020 – A broad alliance of immigrant and civil rights groups has submitted friend-of-the-court (amicus) letters in support of a lawsuit seeking to compel Governor Newsom and Attorney General Becerra to halt the transfer of Californians from local or state custody to ICE amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit, filed last week, urges […]
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240+ Groups Urge Congress to Repeal Hurtful 1996 Immigration Laws
WASHINGTON, DC, June 19, 2019 – Today, more than 240 immigration, civil rights, and other organizations across the country urged Congress to repeal the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), laws passed in 1996 which have led to the mass immigration detention and deportation […]
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New Report Measures Devastating Impact of Increased ICE Arrests in NY Courts
New York, NY, April 10, 2019 – A coalition of more than 100 organizations across New York State issued a new report today, Safeguarding the Integrity of Our Courts; The Impact of ICE Courthouse Operations in New York State, measuring the harmful impact of ICE’s increased courthouse arrests on vulnerable New Yorkers’ ability to access […]
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IDP Launches “ICEwatch” Interactive Map with Nearly 700 Reports of ICE Raids in New York
NEW YORK, July 23, 2018 – The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) today in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights launched “ICEwatch,” an interactive map that details ICE’s deceptive and aggressive tactics with summaries of nearly 700 raids, available at raidsmap.immdefense.org. ICEwatch includes raids conducted during the first year and a half of the Trump […]
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Deportation By Any Means: How Immigration Officials are Labeling Immigrant Youth as Gang Members
May 22, 2018 – As rhetoric from the Trump Administration has tied young immigrants to gangs, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center today released “Deportation By Any Means Necessary: How Immigration Officials are Labeling Immigrant Youth as Gang Members.” This report highlights how immigration officials across various sub-agencies of the Department of Homeland Security are accusing immigrant […]
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Groups File First Amendment Lawsuit Challenging Targeting of Immigrant Rights Activists
NEW YORK, NY, Feb. 9, 2018 – Immigrant rights leader Ravi Ragbir, together with the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, CASA de Maryland, Detention Watch Network, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the New York Immigration Coalition, filed suit (Ragbir v. Homan) in federal district court in the Southern […]