Press Releases
about Immigrants' Rights
Sep 19, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Seeks Order to Immediately Release Journalist Mario Guevara, Who May Be Sent to El Salvador At Any Moment
ATLANTA – Today, the Board of Immigration Appeals declined to release Mr. Guevara on bond, despite an immigration judge’s previous order granting his release. Instead, the boar...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Guevara v. Francis
Sep 17, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil to Challenge Immigration Judge’s Unprecedented Ruling
NEWARK, N.J. – Following the Trump administration’s latest effort to weaponize the immigration system to silence Mahmoud Khalil for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Court case: Khalil v. Trump
Sep 17, 2025
District Court Grants Order Prohibiting ICE from Detaining Immigrants in Abusive Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza
NEW YORK – A U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction today that would improve conditions for people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Feder...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Sep 16, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Tennessee Condemn President Trump’s Plan to Deploy National Guard into Memphis Communities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – In another effort to expand his power and stoke fear, President Trump issued a memorandum yesterday establishing a regressive policing task force made up of vari...
Sep 11, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Statement on House Passage of H.R. 3486
Houses narrowly passes bill that would impose extreme prison sentences on asylum seekers, teenagers and immigrant families
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Sep 09, 2025
ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and Partners Urge Appeals Court to Find Trump’s Deployment of Military in Los Angeles Unlawful
LOS ANGELES — Free speech organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Newsom v. Trump, California’s lawsuit challenging Presi...
Court case: Newsom v. Trump
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IdahoFeb 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Criminal Law Reform
Rodriguez, Et Al. V. Porter, Et Al.. Explore Case.Rodriguez, et al. v. Porter, et al.
On February 10, 2026, CLRP, along with the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Idaho and Wendy J. Olson, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho, and partner at Stoel Rives, filed a putative class action lawsuit challenging an immigration raid carried out at a popular family event in Wilder, Idaho in October 2025. -
News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Into The Black Hole: Navigating The Center Of Trump’s Deportation Force In Louisiana. Explore News & Commentary.Into the Black Hole: Navigating the Center of Trump’s Deportation Force in Louisiana
One legal advocate reflects on how she researched the opaque immigration landscape in Louisiana, connected with detained people, and designed a blueprint for immigration work amid the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown. -
MinnesotaFeb 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Hussen V. Noem. Explore Case.HUSSEN v. NOEM
The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ of Minnesota, Covington & Burling LLP, Greene Espel PLLP, and Robins Kaplan LLP filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of three community members — and a class of similarly situated people — whose constitutional rights were violated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other federal agents.