The BIA Decision Undermines Due Process for Immigrants September 9, 2025 For Immediate Release Contact: [email protected] Miami — Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice) today expressed serious concern regarding the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision in Matter of Yajure Hurtado to strip immigration judges of their jurisdiction to conduct bond hearings or grant bond to immigrants who are in …
Global Coalition of More than 100 Urges African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Issue Resolution on Illegal U.S. Migrant Transfer Agreements
For immediate release. September 3, 2025 – Today, the Global Strategic Litigation Council (Council) and Human Rights First, together with more than 100 allied human rights organizations and individual experts, submitted a joint letter to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). The letter urges the ACHPR to intervene by issuing a formal resolution in response to the …
Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites Pervasive Overcrowding, Medical Neglect, Degrading Treatment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2025 Contact: Paul Chavez, Litigation Program Director: [email protected] (Washington, DC, July 21, 2025) – The United States government has subjected immigrants detained in three Florida facilities to abusive, degrading, and in some cases life-threatening conditions, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Sanctuary of the South said in a report released today. The 92-page report, …
Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Lack of Access to Counsel for People Held at Florida’s Notorious Everglades Immigration Detention Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2025 Contact: American for Immigrant Justice, [email protected] MIAMI (July 16, 2025) — Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process for people detained at Florida’s new, notorious Everglades immigration center, a hastily constructed facility on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the wetlands in …
Immigration Advocates Sue DHS Demanding Transparency about Coercive DNA Collection Practices
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2025 Contact: American for Immigrant Justice, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (June 3, 2025) — The Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology, together with Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and Americans for Immigrant Justice, have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for its failure to respond to organizations’ Freedom of Information Act request …
Detained Individuals and Civil Rights Organizations Raise Serious Concerns Over Violations of Immigrants’ Due Process Rights at FDC in Miami, FL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2025 Contact: American for Immigrant Justice, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (May 29, 2025) — Today, civil rights organizations called on the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remedy pervasive due process violations plaguing the Federal Detention Center-Miami (FDC-Miami). Americans for Immigrant Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Florida …
Federal Court Extends Block on Florida’s Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law, SB 4-C
Judge extends block on enforcement of law that would criminalize people simply for entering Florida ruling the law is likely unconstitutional FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2025 Contact: American for Immigrant Justice, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (April 30, 2025) — Late last night, a federal judge extended an order blocking Florida from enforcing Senate Bill 4-C (SB 4-C) — a dangerous …
Americans for Immigrant Justice Submits Report on Krome Detention Center Abuses to United Nations Human Rights Council for Review on Human Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2025 Contact: American for Immigrant Justice, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (April 8, 2025) — Americans for Immigrant Justice (AI Justice) submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting egregious human rights abuses of immigrants at Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, Florida. The report was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council …
Federal Court Halts Florida’s Cruel Anti-Immigrant Law SB 4-C in Major Victory for Immigrant Justice
Federal court halts enforcement of Florida’s dangerous anti-immigrant law, protecting communities from unconstitutional arrests and detention FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2025 Contact: ACLU of Florida Media Office, [email protected]; American for Immigrant Justice, Paola Ariza, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (April 4, 2025) — A federal court has granted a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Florida Senate Bill 4-C (SB 4-C), …
ACLU of Florida Joins ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and Americans for Immigrant Justice to Represent the Farmworker Association of Florida, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, and Impacted Individuals in a Newly Filed Lawsuit to Block Florida’s Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Law SB 4C
The lawsuit exposes SB 4C as a sweeping and unlawful expansion of state power under the guise of immigration enforcement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2025 Contact: ACLU of Florida Media Office, [email protected]; American for Immigrant Justice, Paola Ariza, [email protected] MIAMI, FL (April 2, 2025) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Americans …