An Important Step in Creating a Just & Humane Immigration System 

Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief. Each of the individuals received a final order of removal as a result of the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the Biden administration’s plan to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy next month. The announcement follows an August decision by the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to stay a…

San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that the United States is required by law to inspect and process asylum seekers when they present themselves at ports of entry, and condemned the practice…

San Diego, CA – Immigrant rights advocates released the following statement after presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California, where they urged the court to declare unlawful and permanently end the Trump-era turnback policy. Under the policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the country’s largest federal…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of the district court injunction ordering the federal government to reinstate the draconian “Remain in Mexico” policy.    “Today’s ruling will…

Urge Court to Grant Plaintiffs’ Preliminary Injunction Motion

Motion emphasizes that asylum seekers have been seriously injured, raped, and even killed after CBP officials turned them back at U.S. border.