This report features stories from women swept up in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that began on Jan. 2, 2016. The report by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights found that the federal government has engaged in a needlessly aggressive – and potentially unconstitutional – act against immigrants with these home raids that targeted women and children from Central America.
Federal immigration raids in Georgia, Texas and North Carolina over the past weekend raise serious questions about whether federal agents violated constitutional standards or used illegal tactics to detain immigrant families seeking safety in the United States.
The revamped comic-book hero takes on masked, armed border vigilantes – and given the history of such militias, it's not a stretch.
Proposed agreement would place immigration agents in Fulton County jails.
The SPLC’s $14 million verdict against the company this year led to a settlement of 11 remaining suits.
Arrival of Syrians fleeing conflict sparks attempt to close college's resettlement center in rural farming community.
Mexican guest workers hired by a contractor with more than $9 million in state contracts to maintain the shoulders and medians of rural Mississippi roadways were cheated out of their wages. A federal lawsuit on behalf of six workers alleged that the contractor broke federal racketeering laws....
A landscaping contractor promised the U.S. government it would pay Mexican guest workers the “prevailing wage” of up to $11 an hour but instead paid only the minimum wage of $7.25.
The program, providing detained immigrants with a connection to the outside world, was shut down after detainees filed a civil rights complaint alleging abuse at the facility.
The federal board charged with reviewing immigration court appeals will no longer request legal briefs from an anti-immigrant hate group to consider in its rulings – a decision that comes shortly after the SPLC and other groups urged the board to stop providing this platform to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
