A Secret CBP Team is Targeting and Detaining Innocent Travelers. We’re Suing.

For too long, the government has acted as if it has carte blanche at the border. No more.

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We’re Suing to Make Sure that CBP Can’t Keep Asylum Seekers from Their Lawyers

The Trump administration is doing everything it can to eliminate due process for people fleeing persecution.

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In the Midst of Trump’s Attacks, Offshoots of Progress in Congress for Immigrants’ Rights

Even in today’s challenging political climate, we are seeing our immigrants’ rights movement grow and gain momentum.

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Under Attack by Trump, Immigrant Justice is Advancing in the States

This year was another of devastating attacks on immigrants’ rights by the Trump administration. However, in both red and blue states, we fought and won new measures that stymie Trump’s deportation machine. These local wins, though often overshadowed by the president’s xenophobia, are powerful. Here are some of the most surprising and significant of our 2019 immigrant justice victories in the states.

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Federal Court Rules That Border Officers Can’t Arbitrarily Search Our Electronic Devices

We don’t lose our privacy rights at the airport or other U.S. ports of entry.

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I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw.

Overcrowded shelters, kidnappings, and unsanitary living conditions are the norm in a growing humanitarian crisis.

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Why is the Trump Administration Trying to Tear This 26-Year-Old DACA Recipient Away From Her Child?

Her story is at once exceptionally tragic and a paradigmatic example of how our immigration legal system is failing — and tearing families apart.

Anahi Jaquez-Estrada

Homestead: Close the Detention Prison for Good — It’s a Human Rights Catastrophe and a Moral Abomination

Cruelty is not an immigration policy.

By Micah W. Kubic

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Trump’s War on Asylum-Seekers is Endangering Pregnant Women

CBP officers are forcibly returning pregnant asylum-seekers to Mexico in violation of their own rules.

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