Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Coverage of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in the Nexus archive.
- Immigration advocates sue federal government over removal of fee waivers for neglected kids
Immigration and children's rights nonprofits sued the Department of Homeland Security over the removal of fee waivers for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), a protection for abused, neglected, or abandoned immigrant children. The plaintiffs argue the government's abrupt termination of the long-standing $250 fee waiver violates the Administrative Procedure Act and misinterprets H.R. 1, which they claim does not prohibit SIJS fee waivers.
- ‘Fear, intimidation, violence’: calls mount to remove ICE from US streets after agents killed two men
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed two men, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, who were not targets of enforcement actions. Advocacy groups have labeled the incidents as extrajudicial killings and are calling for ICE to be removed from American streets.
- ‘Fear, intimidation, violence’: calls mount to remove ICE from US streets after agents killed two men
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed two men, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, who were not targets of enforcement action. Advocacy groups have condemned the shootings as extrajudicial killings and called for removing ICE from American streets.
- Mexico demands US, UN investigate ICE killings
Mexico filed criminal complaints with U.S. authorities and the UN over 17 Mexican deaths in ICE custody, including a cease-and-desist order to a California detention center. The government joined a lawsuit against the facility, but experts note limited legal recourse due to U.S. jurisdiction.