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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Urge DHS to Investigate Houston Asylum Office’s Mishandling of Credible Fear Interviews
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 10 civil and immigrants’ rights organizations filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) calling for an investigation of the Houston Asylum Office’s handling of Credible Fear Interviews (CFIs) for asylum seekers. The organizations are: the National Immigration Project, RAICES, Southern Poverty…
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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Upcoming Closure of Etowah County Detention Center is a Victory
Important Step toward Realizing Administration’s Pledge to Make the U.S. Immigration System More Humane
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES CALL FOR IMMEDIATE DESIGNATION OF TPS STATUS FOR CAMEROON
“Every day that is spent without protection puts more Cameroonian lives at risk of deportation”
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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SPLC: Planned Expansion of Private ICE Detention Center in Georgia a Betrayal by the Biden Administration
Expansion Would Create Country’s Largest Immigrant Detention Center
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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SPLC: ICE Must Finally Close Irwin Detention Center
After Past Commitment, “The Silence from DHS is Deafening”
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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Immigration Advocates Call to End Contracts and Shut Down Two Louisiana ICE Facilities Over Racial Discrimination & Abuse
Black Immigrants Denied Basic Necessities, Medical Care & Abused
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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Biden-Harris Administration Making Strides; Yet Much More Needed on Immigration Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project and Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative released the following statements. On pathways to citizenship “While the Biden-Harris administration has taken some encouraging steps, it’s time to fully embrace immigration reform and the undoing of the…
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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Fighting for immigrant rights during a pandemic
As people across the country are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been given to a group of people whose health is in danger because they are locked away from the outside world – people in immigrant detention centers.
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Weekend Read: Cuban asylum seekers detained in Louisiana
Every day, tens of thousands of immigrants are locked behind bars in the United States. Many are detained for months, even years, far from their loved ones and communities.
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- Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI)
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SPLC fights back against Trump administration’s attack on immigrants
As a young boy in Honduras, Jose was no stranger to violence and murder.