The SPLC is preparing to provide legal representation to approximately 50 people who were arrested at a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, in the largest workplace immigration raid since the George W. Bush administration.
In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit highlighting widespread violations of detained noncitizens’ rightful access to counsel in multiple civil immigration prisons in the Southeast. The...
Jasmine Boutdy sat outside the glass window, picked up the phone, and listened intently as the detained immigrant on the other side of the glass told his story.
The screaming blocks out all other sound. In more than two minutes of footage, the only words audible above the girls’ sobbing: “Get in the car.” “Mom!” “Where is she going?” “Are you guys alone?” “Yes.”
When the immigrant community fears that contact with local police could lead to deportation, they don’t report crimes, provide witness testimony, or otherwise interact with local police, leaving cities less safe.
The SPLC and the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) urged Etowah County in Alabama to provide outdoor recreation access at a detention center where some immigrants spend months, or even years, without going outside.
When an Atlanta immigration court judge recently heard the asylum case of a Chinese national, he asked the man if he spoke English.
The SPLC and other immigrant and civil rights groups issued a joint report today describing the legal liabilities that local governments face when they honor requests from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to hold people who have been arrested past the completion of their criminal custody, so that ICE agents can detain them.
We are disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in Jennings v. Rodriguez.
Hillsborough is one of 17 Florida counties that has partnered with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in a new model for enforcing immigration detainers. Under a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA), the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office holds individuals for 48 hours after they have served their time on local charges, when ICE determines that they may be subject to deportation. In return, ICE pays Hillsborough $50 per detainee.
