...Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), stressed that the Muslim Ban was far from the only discriminatory immigration policy that needed to be...
...“We are happy that Biden is going to repeal the ban,” said Ibraham Qatabi, a legal worker at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “But the question is, what does that mean for families impacted...
... Rafaela Uribe , Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, added: "The sanctuary leaders and families at the helm of this case have lived in uncertainty and fear for too long...
**Español abajo** Joined by Immigrant Rights Groups, Women in Sanctuary Seek to Hold Federal Immigration Officials Accountable Under Religious Freedom Restoration Act, First and Eighth Amendments for...
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,...
San Diego, January 18, 2021 —Today, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Trump administration’s latest attempt to prevent asylum seekers from accessing the U.S...
...Below are some actionable steps we can take to advance immigrant rights and push back against unjust policies: 1. In order to save ourselves from repeating past mistakes or accepting the current...
San Diego, January 7, 2021 —Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the...
Immigrant Defense Project and Center for Constitutional Rights
On November 17, 2020, at 4:45 AM, five plain-clothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) climbed the side of a building in south Brooklyn and attempted to enter a second floor...
ICE’s Operation Palladium Sparked Wave of “Supercharged Arrest Operation[s]” in Sanctuary Cities December 16, 2020, New York –The Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
