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U.S. Military Members File Class Action Suit Against Pentagon Over Broken Citizenship Promise

NEW YORK — Six non-citizen U.S. military service members today filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense for denying them a path to citizenship that Congress has long promised to service members under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The lawsuit was filed in federal court

April 24, 2020

BREAKING: Court Orders Drastic Reductions at ICE's Adelanto Center

LOS ANGELES — United States District Court in Los Angeles today ordered the number of detainees at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center be decreased “to such a level that would allow the remaining detainees to maintain a social distance of six feet from each other at al

April 23, 2020

Detained Immigrants File Class Action Lawsuit Against ICE, Demand Immediate Releases During Global Pandemic

SAN FRANCISCO — Immigrants detained at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility and the Yuba County Jail filed a class action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last night, asking the federal district court to order the immediate release of detainees from fundamentally unsafe cond

April 21, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENT: Major Legal Action To Combat COVID-19 Spread in ICE Detention Centers

WHAT: Phone-in press conference to announce a major legal action to combat COVID-19 spread in ICE detention centers located in California. The action will be brought by a coalition of attorneys from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco

April 21, 2020

ICE's Impersonation of Police Officers Challenged in Court

LOS ANGELES — The “police” officers at the door look the part: flak jackets, tactical gear, guns, and the word POLICE emblazoned on their outfits. They even announce they are “the police.” But they are not the police. They are U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents relying on deceptio

April 16, 2020

ACLU Sues ICE Over Conditions at Adelanto Center Rife for COVID-19

RIVERSIDE — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP have filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court to demand a drastic reduction in the number of detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center during the COVID-19

April 14, 2020