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A federal court ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the SPLC.
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A North Carolina state law guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the SPLC – sued to block implementation of the law on November 15, 2017 in federal...
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North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the SPLC – filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a state law that guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
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A police officer’s call to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Mississippi last year left an unarmed man – initially a bystander to a traffic stop – shot and bleeding in the street, body camera footage obtained by the SPLC shows. The officer called ICE because he needed a Spanish interpreter.
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The following statement is about the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, which is designed to reform the abusive immigration detention system.
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President Trump’s third Muslim ban is just as discriminatory as the two that came before it.
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One of the highest awards the Mexican government bestows outside the nation was recently presented to Dan Werner, director of the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI), for tireless work protecting immigrants from discrimination, exploitation and abuse.
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Detainees at a privately operated immigrant detention center in Folkston, Georgia, are routinely denied access to its law library – a violation of their constitutional rights that must be immediately corrected, the SPLC and Ericka Curran, a clinical law professor, said in a letter sent to the warden and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials today.
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Some judges at the Stewart Immigration Court in Georgia routinely break the rules of professional conduct and continue to violate the constitutional rights of detainees – failures that require action, including the possible removal of one judge from the bench, according to a complaint the SPLC lodged with the U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today.
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The RAISE Act represents a stealth attack on our immigration system that would begin to unravel the reforms of 52 years ago, when Congress discarded a racist quota system that discriminated against people who weren’t white and northern European.
