Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and esteemed members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this critical discussion on examining white supremacist violence in the ...
Washington D.C.—Today, Human Rights First and Refugees International released an update of its Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch tracker that exposes the growing scale, secrecy, and ...
Under the Remain in Mexico policy (RMX), the Department of Homeland Security forced asylum seekers to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities while their U.S. immigration court cases were pending.
It’s now been a year since the U.S. government launched its “ comprehensive strategy ” in September 2021, resulting in the mass expulsion of Haitian people who arrived at the U.S. border in Del Rio, ...
Human Rights First’s Submission for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 43/6 ...
On the first day of the Trump-Vance Administration, the President issued a host of anti-immigrant and -refugee Executive Orders that undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and ...
Yearly cost to U.S. taxpayers of a prisoner in a maximum security federal prison: Approximately $78,000. Yearly cost to hold each detainee at Guantánamo: More than $10 million. Annual cost to operate ...
Today, on the anniversary of the day when the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty was approved, we asked our Senior Director of Accountability Adam Keith some questions about the ICC, its ...
Washington, D.C. — In March 2026, overall U.S. immigration enforcement flights reached a record high of 1,794, a 122% increase over March 2025, according to Human Rights First’s latest ICE Flight ...
WHAT IS XENOPHOBIA & ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXTREMISM? Xenophobia and anti-immigrant extremism perpetuate the idea that immigrants, or people who are perceived to be “foreign” or “outsiders,” threaten America ...
Use of the asylum ban in expedited removal has unlawfully heightened the credible fear standard, led to refoulement, and failed to achieve the administration’s goal of deterrence ...
Washington, D.C. — ICE Air Operations has been dramatically expanded under the second Trump administration, operating with minimal transparency or public oversight. Human Rights First’s ICE Flight ...
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