All items tagged 'Immigrants’ Rights'

Immigrants’ Rights Staff Attorney

Work in conjunction with community-based organizations to protect individuals from detention and deportation, keep families together, and build power in immigrant communities.

COVID-19 Resource List: What You Need to Know as an Immigrant in New York

Despite the lockdowns on city and state levels, the federal government is trying to keep immigration agencies and policies moving to some extent. Here are updates on recent developments: Immigration Detention Although ICE continues to operate and detain people, there

Winning Asylum for Political Activists

As we look back on 2019, TakeRoot is celebrating the extraordinary courage of clients like Tamara* a Haitian asylum seeker we worked with this year. This fearless political activist was repeatedly persecuted and threatened because of her vocal opposition to

WNYC: Data Company Directly Powers Immigration Raids in Workplace

Palantir Technologies, co-founded by a Trump advisor in Silicon Valley, has created a smart-phone app that helps ICE round up undocumented workers. The number of arrests has shot up.