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SPLC: Reopening of Migrant Child Prisons Morally Indefensible and Unnecessary

February 23, 2021

MIAMI – The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly planning to reopen the Homestead detention center to detain unaccompanied migrant children. The detention center was last used in August of 2019 before closing, following...

Federal Court Again Blocks Trump-Era Asylum Transit Ban

February 16, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the United States, with very...

SPLC: Wind Down of ‘Remain in Mexico’ Critical Step for Tens of Thousands Seeking Protection in the U.S.

February 12, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration today announced the first phase of its plan to wind down the "Remain in Mexico" policy. On February 19, the United States will begin processing people who have already been enrolled in...

SPLC: Continued Use of Title 42 Unacceptable; Mass Expulsions Must End

February 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki today said the administration would continue to expel migrants at the border, signaling that the administration would continue expulsions under Title 42, pursuant to a CDC...

Federal Court Allows Workers’ Claims to Proceed in Lawsuit Challenging Major ICE Workplace Raid

February 02, 2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On Sunday, January 31, a federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid to proceed, denying in part the federal government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The raid took...

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‘Remain in Mexico’: Biden administration must keep promise to end policy that forces migrants to wait in dangerous Mexican border towns

January 29, 2021

Melissa Crow

Unlawfully Imprisoned for Months, Eight Cubans Take ICE to Federal Court

January 25, 2021

LUMPKIN, Ga. – On Friday, January 22, eight Cubans filed a group habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking their immediate release from Stewart Detention Center (SDC), an Immigration...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Family Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

January 22, 2021

TUCSON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a father and son who were forcibly separated by government officials for two months...

SPLC Responds to Administration’s Discontinuation of Remain in Mexico Policy

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) responded to the Biden administration’s announcement of the discontinuation of the Remain in Mexico policy going forward. The following statement is from Melissa Crow, Senior...

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Biden-Harris Día 1 - Acción en Inmigración es un Primer Paso Crítico Hacia la Justicia para Migrantes

January 20, 2021

Efrén C. Olivares

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