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August 24, 2019

Five days after taking office, President Trump signed “” – an executive order calling for the hiring of thousands of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the use of  to enforce immigration law.

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August 19, 2019

Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were denied adequate health care and disability accommodations while being held in 158 immigrant prisons across the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed a federal class action...

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August 07, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Julia Solórzano, with the Ҵý’s Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on today's workplace raids in Mississippi:

Immigrant Justice
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July 16, 2019

After Florida passed an “anti-sanctuary cities” law mandating cooperation agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requiring local law enforcement agencies to use their “best efforts” to support federal immigration law enforcement and prohibiting local sanctuary policies, the...

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July 16, 2019

As part of its ongoing war on the nation’s asylum system, the Trump administration declared migrants who travel through a third country before reaching the U.S.-Mexico border are ineligible for asylum. The Ҵý filed a federal lawsuit challenging this most recent attempt to ban asylum.

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July 09, 2019

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran’s case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

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