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It's time for the highest officials in the state to step to their responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us — people, including youths, locked up in a way that makes it impossible for t
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
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
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
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
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