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SPLC: Reopening of Migrant Child Prisons Morally Indefensible and Unnecessary

February 23, 2021

MIAMI – The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly planning to reopen the Homestead detention center to detain unaccompanied migrant children. The detention center was last used in August of 2019 before closing, following...

U.S. Senator Taps Aide with History of Racist Writings & Connections to White Nationalists

February 23, 2021

WASHINGTON – An anti-immigrant extremist with ties to the white nationalist movement is presently advising Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), according to a new report published in Hatewatch. Julia Hahn, a former Trump aide with a long...

SPLC: Communities Across the South Know All Too Well the Detrimental Effects of ICE’s Continued Enforcement Practices

February 19, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) yesterday issued a memo establishing interim guidance on the scope of interior enforcement activity for the next 90 days. The following statement is from Laura...

Federal Court Again Blocks Trump-Era Asylum Transit Ban

February 16, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the United States, with very...

New SPLC Analysis: Extremists Leverage Little-Known and Encrypted Technology To Spread Dangerous Messages and Plan Violence

February 16, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new analysis – titled “ How an Encrypted Messaging Platform is Changing Extremist Movements .” The report details how extremist groups are migrating to...

SPLC: Wind Down of ‘Remain in Mexico’ Critical Step for Tens of Thousands Seeking Protection in the U.S.

February 12, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration today announced the first phase of its plan to wind down the "Remain in Mexico" policy. On February 19, the United States will begin processing people who have already been enrolled in...

Civil Rights Memorial Center Seeks Poem Submissions for New Exhibit

February 10, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center is partnering with New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander to produce a community poem for a new exhibit that will be featured at the Center when it reopens later this...

SPLC: Continued Use of Title 42 Unacceptable; Mass Expulsions Must End

February 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki today said the administration would continue to expel migrants at the border, signaling that the administration would continue expulsions under Title 42, pursuant to a CDC...

MPS Agrees to Compensate Lee High School Students Denied Due Process, Wrongfully Expelled

February 09, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Montgomery County Board of Education voted to approve two settlement agreements with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) during a special meeting on Feb. 5. The agreements resolve two lawsuits filed last...

New SPLC Analysis: The 566 Extreme Antigovernment Groups Nationwide Pose A Grave Threat to National Security

February 09, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new analysis The Year in Antigovernment Extremism detailing the activities and dangers of the 566 extreme antigovernment groups that were active in 2020...

Judge orders retaliation to stop against incarcerated people participating in Florida solitary confinement lawsuit

February 09, 2021

Tallahassee, FL — Following a five-day evidentiary hearing U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin A. Fitzpatrick has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to stop retaliation and threats of retaliation against incarcerated...

SPLC Applauds Long-Awaited Arrest and Prosecution of Child Kidnapper Lisa Miller as Isabella’s Mother Pleads for Her Return

February 08, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jenkins v. Miller is a federal case in Vermont brought by a lesbian woman, Janet Jenkins, against her former civil union partner, Lisa Miller, who “renounced” homosexuality and kidnapped their then 7-year-old...

Lawsuit dismissed against Tuscaloosa Sheriff due to lack of COVID-19 records

February 08, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit against Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy after his attorneys acknowledged that Abernathy’s office had no records in response to a...

SPLC Lauds Defense Secretary Austin’s Strong and Swift First Steps to End Hate and Extremism in our Military

February 04, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang welcomed Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s early initiative to address the dangerous and disturbing trend of extremism in the U.S...

Award-winning SPLC Education Program Gets New Name, Leadership

February 03, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project, newly named Learning for Justice, is now led by Jalaya Liles Dunn, a 20-year veteran education advocate who aims to expand the project into homes...

Federal Court Allows Workers’ Claims to Proceed in Lawsuit Challenging Major ICE Workplace Raid

February 02, 2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On Sunday, January 31, a federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid to proceed, denying in part the federal government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The raid took...

The Year in Hate and Extremism 2020: Organized hate groups became more difficult to track amid COVID and migration to online networks

February 01, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In the final year of a Trump presidency that propelled racist conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology into the political mainstream, far-right extremists continued to migrate to online networks as...

SPLC: MPS Students and Educators Deserve a Plan

January 27, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In the wake of the tragic deaths of four educators related to complications from COVID-19, Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Ann Roy Moore announced Monday that all students will resume virtual learning...

SPLC: Osceola County Public Schools Must Protect Students from Police Brutality

January 27, 2021

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Yesterday, a video surfaced on social media that showed an Osceola County Sheriff’s deputy slamming a Black female student at Liberty High School to a sidewalk headfirst, causing her body to go limp. Even as she...

SPLC Statement Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 26, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The following statement is from Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center . “On January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to remember the victims of the...

Unlawfully Imprisoned for Months, Eight Cubans Take ICE to Federal Court

January 25, 2021

LUMPKIN, Ga. – On Friday, January 22, eight Cubans filed a group habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking their immediate release from Stewart Detention Center (SDC), an Immigration...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Family Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

January 22, 2021

TUCSON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a father and son who were forcibly separated by government officials for two months...

SPLC Responds to Administration’s Discontinuation of Remain in Mexico Policy

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) responded to the Biden administration’s announcement of the discontinuation of the Remain in Mexico policy going forward. The following statement is from Melissa Crow, Senior...

Jalaya Liles Dunn and Susan Corke Join SPLC to Lead Education and Anti-Hate Work

January 19, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Human rights leaders Susan Corke and Jalaya Liles Dunn join the Southern Poverty Law Center today to lead two internationally renowned projects aimed at combating hate and extremism in communities across the...

Court Blocks Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order Protecting Asylum Seekers

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. asylum process. The order blocks a rule, issued in December...

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