As DHS continues to expand the use of immigration detention, the defense of detained noncitizens increasingly extends beyond the immigration courts and into federal district court. Habeas petitions have become an essential strategy for challenging unlawful custody, yet many immigration attorneys have limited experience with federal habeas practice and are navigating it for the first time. Join the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law for a free CLE webinar, Habeas 1

The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law seeks an innovative attorney with a clear theory of change and history of leading successful impact litigation. The supervising attorney will work closely with the legal director and other team members to develop legal advocacy strategies and lead new impact and class action litigation.

The federal suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, is challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE”) practice of deliberately targeting and re-detaining people with ongoing immigration court proceedings, who the government had previously cleared for release, as contrary to the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act. 

This training will explain the ICE policy memorandum issued earlier this year that, departing from decades of prior practice, authorizes the routine arrest, detention, and deportation of immigrant survivors, including those with pending U- and T- visa applications or grants of deferred action.

Following a July 24, 2025 public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that examined widespread human rights and refugee law violations inflicted by the U.S. government, a coalition of immigrants’ rights organizations that participated in the hearing submitted a follow-up report to the Commission this week.

Filed October 14, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the lawsuit challenges a dehumanizing, unjust, and illegal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) policy issued in early 2025 that, for the first time in decades,  enables the widespread jailing and deportation of immigrant survivors.

After rejecting the federal government’s efforts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement last Friday, a federal court on Monday reaffirmed that the government remains legally obligated to promptly process, transfer, and release immigrant children as expeditiously as possible.

In a major victory for the rights and dignity of immigrant children, on Friday, Aug. 15, a federal court struck down the federal government’s latest bid to end the Flores Settlement Agreement.

A coalition of immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that examined widespread and escalating human rights and refugee law violations inflicted by the Trump administration in the immigration context. 

This brief guide explains how legal practitioners and advocates can report the disappearances of immigrants to the United Nation's Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances