March 25, 2020
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Early this morning, a group of civil rights legal organizations and their pro bono law firm partners filed an emergency application for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central...
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March 24, 2020
The following statement is from Laura Rivera, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative , in response to the first positive COVID-19 test of an individual in Immigration and Customs...
March 23, 2020
Tallahassee, Fla. – Today, a coalition of groups committed to defending Florida’s democratic process submitted a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis urging a veto of SB 1794 , which would impose significant, new hurdles to get...
March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alongside the American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and over 100 other organizations,...
March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The SPLC Action Fund issued the following statement by Regional Policy Analyst Katherine Dunn about the education provisions of the federal government’s $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus proposal: “With over 50...
March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The SPLC Action Fund issued the following statement today about the exclusion of immigrants and low-wage workers from the federal government’s plans for a $2 trillion economic stimulus package in response to...
March 20, 2020
President Trump continued to use racist and xenophobic language today during a news conference about the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. by calling it the “Chinese virus." In doing so, he doubled down on his effort to...
March 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Laura Rivera, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) , responding to the Trump...
March 19, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and the Alabama Disabilities...
March 18, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A white nationalist movement that was emboldened by the election of Donald Trump grew for a second straight year in 2019, as the number of hate groups in the movement rose to 155 – a 55 percent increase since...
March 18, 2020
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, regarding reports that the Trump administration...
March 17, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama — With the coronavirus spreading quickly across the country, dozens of civil rights groups including the Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC) are demanding that the federal government and Mississippi ,...
March 13, 2020
Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, and Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) have filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland...
March 12, 2020
The following statement is from Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC Action Fund : “While the delay of the vote on the NO BAN Act is disappointing, our unwavering commitment to strike down this signature piece...
March 11, 2020
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 ruling allowing the...
March 06, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2020 – A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum transit ban from being applied to thousands of asylum seekers who were unlawfully prevented from accessing the...
March 02, 2020
Nashville, Tenn., March 2 – Public school parents and community members in Nashville and Memphis today filed suit in the Chancery Court for Davidson County challenging the Tennessee Education Savings Account (ESA) voucher law as...
February 28, 2020
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, on two immigration decisions by the Ninth Circuit...
February 28, 2020
ATLANTA – The U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today affirmed the denial of CoreCivic’s motion to dismiss a complaint, filed on behalf of a class of immigrants forced to work while detained at Stewart Detention...
February 25, 2020
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, in response to today’s Supreme Court decision...
February 20, 2020
Southern Poverty Law Center’s Interim President Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the following statement on the shooting at two German bars in Hanau: “The tragic shooting that took place in Hanau, Germany, Wednesday evening left nine...
February 19, 2020
ATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision today in Kelvin Jones v. Governor of Florida , SPLC’s ongoing litigation against Florida’s modern-day poll tax. The following statement is from Nancy...
February 19, 2020
On Tuesday, Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (Louisiana AID) filed two complaints with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil...
February 14, 2020
“The deployment of Customs and Border Protection tactical teams to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in sanctuary cities is a dangerous and wholly unnecessary step in this administration’s relentless attack...
February 14, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala--“The court confirmed that this administration’s effort to ‘explode’ Medicaid by converting it from a health care access program to a work program is arbitrary and illegal. We hope the federal government and the...
