WASHINGTON — A diverse coalition of 326 immigration, civil rights, labor, and social service groups has filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in U...
...eadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the announcement of a bipartisan Senate plan to reform immigration in the 113th Congress: “Less than a month after one of the most divisive sessions of Congress in recent history, we are gl...
...t’s certainly not all that we feared. In striking down three of the four major provisions of Arizona’s divisive and costly anti-immigration law, S.B. 1070, a majority of the Court largely affirmed that this law – and those like it in other states – violate...
U.S. immigration and citizenship policies have been shaped by the historical exclusion of Black people, particularly enslaved Africans who were d...
..., president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement this week to testify on how political rhetoric oversimplifies the complicated economic effects that immig...
...y to advocate for the civil liberties and human rights of everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, citizenship or immigration status. Currently, RWG leads the Racial Profiling: Face the Truth campaign, which seeks to end racial and religious profiling. W...
... we urge you to provide relief to the millions of people in our country who live every day under the threat of deportation under our broken immigration system, and to strengthen due process and civil and human rights protections in immigration enforcement. With the November elect...
Washington, DC – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees, chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), held its first hearing in the 111th Congress to discuss...