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DHS sued over jail immigration holds
Chicago – An immigrants’ rights organization has filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for issuing detaining orders against individuals in custody while their immigration status is being investigated. The Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center used the examples of two Latinos –…
Author: Fox News Latino
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LGBT Clients Who Reported Gross Mistreatment In Immigration Custody Remain Detained
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), an Atlantic grantee, is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. This article was originally posted on NIJC’s website by Jane Zurnamer on 05 July 2011. Defending the rights…
Author: National Immigrant Justice Center
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Hate Campaigns Can’t Block Overdue Steps Toward Fair Treatment of Immigrants
Barack Obama’s campaign gave hope to millions of immigrants and their leading advocates. Atlantic has been proud to support and stand with these groups in the long campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. But that hope has been strained of late, and it is time to…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Alcohol and Sexual Violence in Ireland: Understanding the Scope of the Problem
For a short Fact Sheet on the information contained below please click here. In 2009, Rape and Justice in Ireland (RAJI) revealed that 70% of victims of rape and 84% of those accused of rape[i] had been drinking at the time of the assault[ii]. These findings…
Author: Rape Crisis Network Ireland
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Department of Homeland Security-funded counterterror trainings smear Muslims
PRA’s groundbreaking exposé of how tax dollars fund anti-Muslim trainings for police and counterterrorism personnel won the attention of news outlets and policy makers at its release this spring. We’ve been keeping the pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to stop funding flawed and bigoted…
Author: PRA in the News
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