Detained immigrants were forced to work for as little as $1 a day cleaning, cooking and performing maintenance duties at a privately operated immigrant detention center in Stewart County, Georgia, as part of a scheme to maximize its profits, according to a class action lawsuit the Southern...
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Detained immigrants were forced to work for as little as $1 a day cleaning, cooking and performing maintenance duties at a privately operated immigrant detention center in Stewart County, Georgia, as part of a scheme to maximize its profits, according to a class action lawsuit the Southern...
On April 3, 2018, journalist Manuel Duran was unlawfully arrested by Memphis police while reporting live at a peaceful demonstration connected with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Even after the charges were dropped, local officials handed him over to U.S...
In 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit highlighting widespread violations of detained noncitizens鈥� rightful access to counsel聽in multiple civil immigration prisons in the Southeast. The...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency entered the homes of immigrant families without warrants, consent or probable cause 鈥� in violation of the Fourth Amendment 鈥� solely to detain and deport families, mostly women and children. The raids took place in Georgia in January 2016...
A North Carolina state law guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups 鈥� including the 人兽性交 鈥� sued to block implementation of the law on November 15, 2017 in federal...
Since at least 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have blocked access to the ports of entry along the Southern border for people seeking asylum. The 人兽性交 joined a class action lawsuit in 2018 as co-counsel to stop this unlawful conduct that imperils the lives of asylum...
President Trump鈥檚 revised executive order banning travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries threatened to break up families and prevent Shi鈥檃 Muslims from studying their faith with religious scholars. The Southern Poverty Law Center, Muslim Advocates and a coalition of other...
After one of the nation鈥檚 leading poultry producers discriminated against employees with disabilities, the 人兽性交 filed charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC against the company, Wayne Farms. The 人兽性交 represents three former...
After the federal government failed to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would shed light on controversial 鈥� and potentially unconstitutional 鈥� immigration raids in 2016 that took more than 100 women and children from their homes and placed them in a Texas detention...
