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New Bill Could Help Families Torn Apart by Immigrant Detention
Some good news on the immigrant rights front: Recently Senator Al Franken (D-MN) along with Senators Kohl, Menendez, Klobuchar, Feingold, Durbin and Feinstein introduced S.3522 the Humane Enforcement and Legal…
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SCOTUS to Arar: the USA Can Send You to Be Tortured
On June 14th the Supreme Court denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government in 2002 and rendered to Syria…
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European governments forcibly return asylum seekers to Iraq
Today 60 Iraqis were forcibly removed from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. They had applied for asylum and were denied. Ten Iraqis who were in the UK,…
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Migrants in Mexico: Invisible Victims of Abuse
Every year, tens of thousands of women, men and children make "the most dangerous journey in the world" through Mexico as irregular migrants. More than nine out of every 10…
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Human and Immigrants' Rights Movement Reacts to Arizona Defiance
Amnesty International is extremely disappointed that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB1070, a bill that will significantly increase the likelihood of racial profiling, arbitrary arrests, and detentions in…
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Tell Arizona's Governor to Veto SB1070!!!
UPDATE: Much to our dismay, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed the immigration bill (SB1070) on Friday. We will continue the fight for immigrant rights. The Arizona House and Senate…
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We'll Make Them Disappear
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we [ICE] can make him disappear.” So said James Pendergraph, former Executive Director of the…
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Haitian Disaster to US Detention
UPDATE: The U.S. freed the 30 Haitian detainees from immigrant detention facilities tonight after they spent about two months behind bars. Here we go again: one more egregious example of…
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Don't Quota Me
On February 22, James Chaparro's sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all…
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30 Years On Refugee Rights Still in Flux
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the US Refugee Act of 1980, a bipartisan bill that made concrete the US government’s commitment to people fleeing persecution and human rights violations.…
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Trail of Dreams Is Trail of Hope
I found myself on the steps of the courthouse with other Amnesty International members. We were holding signs that read “Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights!” and holding our heads even…
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How Attacks on DOJ Attorneys Affect You
You might wonder why a person who works on refugee and migrants' rights is blogging about the attack on Department of Justice attorneys who previously represented Guantanamo detainees. In fact…