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Civil rights organizations and litigation

Civil rights organizations like ACLU litigating and publicizing wrongful detention cases

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Jan 29, 2026
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What recent litigation has successfully limited ICE detention or expanded bond eligibility?

across multiple districts have recently rolled back sweeping / efforts to eliminate immigration bond hearings, with a major class ruling in and several regional injunctions restoring bond eligibility ...

Feb 4, 2026

I’ve detained us citizen multiple times

citizen is legally fraught: policy says agents cannot use civil immigration authority to arrest or detain citizens, yet reporting and agency audits document hundreds of wrongful citizenship investigat...

Feb 2, 2026

How have immigrant advocacy groups documented intimidation tactics during ICE operations in Colorado over the last five years?

Immigrant advocacy groups in have spent the last five years compiling eyewitness reports, hotline data, volunteer-verified incident logs, video recordings, litigation records and FOIA documents to doc...

Jan 25, 2026

What documented hunger strikes and detention protests occurred in U.S. immigration facilities from 2010 to 2016, and what were their outcomes?

Between 2010 and 2016, and coordinated protests by people held in immigration detention centers were widespread, with NGO and FOIA-based reporting documenting hundreds to over a thousand participants ...

Jan 23, 2026

What independent oversight or legal avenues are available to families contesting ICE arrests and removals from Minnesota?

arrests and removals in can pursue several independent oversight and legal avenues: state resources and “know your rights” guidance from the and local advocacy groups, civil-rights litigation and repo...

Jan 9, 2026

What civil‑liberties lawsuits resulted from the post‑9/11 detentions and what remedies, if any, were achieved?

A constellation of civil‑liberties lawsuits followed the post‑9/11 detentions: ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights suits to force disclosure and challenge mass immigrant roundups, habeas and due...