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‘Adopted with the intent to discriminate’: Florida Advocates and Leading Expert Witness Conclude Testimony Challenging Florida’s Racist, Anti-immigrant Law

January 14, 2021

MIAMI – Acclaimed U.S. historian Allan J. Lichtman appeared in trial as an expert witness in the legal challenge to Florida’s anti-sanctuary law, or S.B. 168, testifying that the legislation was designed in close collaboration...

SPLC: Trump’s Reckless Border Trip Must Be Cancelled

January 11, 2021

ALAMO, Texas – In response to the president’s planned visit to the border on Tuesday, Efrén Olivares, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement. “For...

Ahead of January Trial, Federal Judge Strikes Down Provision of Florida’s Anti-Sanctuary Law

December 21, 2020

MIAMI – United States District Judge Beth Bloom has issued an order blocking Florida law enforcement agencies from transporting persons in their custody outside of their jurisdiction for the purpose of handing them over to...

SPLC Action: Historic Nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas for DHS Secretary Paves Way for Agency to Support a Reimagined, Humane Immigration System

November 23, 2020

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden today announced that he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, who served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...

Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Challenge to Trump Administration Policy That Denies Asylum Seekers Safety & Legal Rights

November 23, 2020

Amnesty International USA, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, Refugees International, and a group of immigration law professors have filed amicus briefs in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP),...

'After about 5 minutes of struggle, they forced my index finger on the paper': ICE Forcing More Asylum Seekers to Sign Deportation Paperwork as Another Deportation Flight to Cameroon Looms

November 09, 2020

NEW ORLEANS – On Thursday, November 5, immigrant rights organizations filed a new multi-individual Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) complaint with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil Rights and Civil...

Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Policy That Has Trapped Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers in Mexico

October 28, 2020

Los Angeles - Today, immigration advocates filed a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The policy has forced over 60,000 asylum seekers into precarious, life-threatening situations in...

Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Mayorkas

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October 28, 2020

In October 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed a new challenge to the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which had forced over 60,000 asylum seekers into precarious, life-threatening situations in Mexico and deprived them of access to legal assistance and...

SPLC Names Efrén Olivares as Deputy Legal Director for the Immigrant Justice Project

October 26, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today named Efrén C. Olivares as the new Deputy Legal Director for the organization’s Immigrant Justice Project (IJP). Olivares, the first immigrant to assume the position...

Federal Judge Rejects ICE’s ‘Weak’ Implementation of Court-Ordered Custody Determinations of High Risk Individuals and Other Safety Measures

October 08, 2020

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal granted civil rights organizations' motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in their class-...

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