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August 07, 2020
ATLANTA – Attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Perkins Coie LLP, Project South and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free today filed a motion to dismiss CoreCivic’s counterclaim against the plaintiffs in the forced...
August 07, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – One year ago today armed agents set upon workers at poultry plants in Mississippi, arresting more than 600 immigrants and terrorizing them, their families, and their communities. This raid occurred just days...
August 06, 2020
SAN DIEGO— A federal judge has granted class certification in Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers at ports of entry. The ruling provides that the challenge...
August 06, 2020
El Dorado, Ark. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers who have faced rampant wage theft by a major farm labor contractor, Lowry Farms, Inc. The guest workers...
July 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement following reports that President Trump has issued an order to the Department of Homeland Security to start...
July 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the passing of the NO BAN Act in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 233-183. The Act is designed...
July 20, 2020
WASHINGTON — Today, in a letter to all Members of Congress , SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang urged representatives to support the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants...
July 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Julia Solórzano, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the settlement which forces an East Tennessee...
July 06, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Trump administration’s attempt to make individuals who traveled through a third country on the way to the United States before arriving at the southern border...
