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VIA Email Delivery Only  March 15, 2023 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Permanently end family detention Dear President Biden: The undersigned 383 organizations write to express our grave concern over reports that your administration is considering returning to the policy of family detention which …

By Micah Danney  Law360 (March 9, 2023, 8:05 PM EST) — Days after reports began to break that the Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families that enter the U.S. unlawfully, immigration attorney Shalyn Fluharty recalled a 14-year-old girl she represented who she said tried to hang herself in detention.Speaking at a video press conference with other immigration advocates on Thursday, Fluharty, who heads Americans for …

Now signed and in immediate effect, the multimillion dollar Florida state plan to transport incoming migrants from anywhere to anywhere else in the United States. Watch AI Justice executive director Shalyn Fluharty on This Week in South Florida here.

By Micah Danney  “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill devoting $10 million to a program that expands the state’s transporting of migrants to other states, a move critics promptly decried.The law funds and authorizes the relocation of migrants to other parts of the country and establishes a category of people called “inspected unauthorized alien” who will be subject …

By Tim Padgett “Last week, more than 100 Haitian migrants arrived in the Florida Keys after a dangerous sea voyage. The Biden administration hopes to discourage those journeys with a new parole program it announced last month for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua — and Haiti. That new policy is popular inside Haiti, where people are lining up daily to …

By Jenese Harris “Civil rights activists, attorneys and supporters of detainees gathered Friday on the footsteps of the federal courthouse in Jacksonville, calling for the Baker County Detention Center to be shut down over the alleged mistreatment of immigrants detained at the jail. Andrea Jacoski, with Americans for Immigrant Justice, represents people detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody …

January 18, 2023 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, The undersigned 292 civil, human rights, and immigrant rights groups write to express our tremendous alarm and condemnation of your administration’s recent announcement of your plan to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) …

The Honorable President Joe Biden President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2801 Nebraska Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20528 The Honorable Antony Blinken Secretary of State U.S. State Department 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20037 November 22, 2022 Re: Extend and …

Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned groups, believe that the best traditions of our country demand that we protect the rights and dignity of people who come to our nation in pursuit of safety or a better life. We urge you to recognize that our shared values of humanity and compassion require the dismantling of our system of mass immigrant …

By Syra Ortiz-Blanes and Michael Wilner “Shalyn Fluharty, the executive director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, told the Herald that the resumption of deportations to Cuba was “not a surprise” after the recent detentions in South Florida. ‘They rounded up people with no criminal history, who have work permits, family in the United States, who have complied with every single …

The Hon. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 November 4, 2022 Submitted via email Re: Do not send Haitians to detention at Guantánamo Bay or subject them to third-country arrangements We, at the Haitian Bridge Alliance, and the undersigned 288 immigration, civil rights, human rights, and faith-based …

by Syra Ortiz-Blanes “Legal service groups that represent detained migrants have sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging the agency prevents lawyers and their clients in Miami’s Krome Detention Center and three other detention facilities from speaking regularly and confidentially. ‘Defendants have systematically failed to ensure compliance with constitutional requirements, federal law, and ICE’s own policies regarding access to counsel,’ …