After the federal government failed to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would shed light on controversial – and potentially unconstitutional – immigration raids in 2016 that took more than 100 women and children from their homes and placed them in a Texas detention...
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Georgia is no longer illegally denying driver’s licenses to thousands of immigrants based on their past – rather than current – immigration status under a settlement agreement announced today to resolve a federal lawsuit by the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± and Atlanta immigration attorney Justin W. Chaney.
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The following statement regarding a federal judge’s dismissal of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s lawsuit over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state is by Naomi Tsu, deputy legal director of the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±:
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Foreign college students who paid thousands of dollars to spend their summer living and working in the United States as part of a federal cultural exchange program were exploited by a labor broker who used the program as a source of cheap labor for businesses in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, according to a federal complaint filed by the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±.
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A poultry processing company in Guntersville, Alabama, ignored worker complaints about dangerous and unsanitary working conditions, ultimately firing two whistleblowers, according to °Ä²Ê¿ª½± complaints filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
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A luxury golf resort in South Carolina will pay $2.3 million to resolve an °Ä²Ê¿ª½± lawsuit filed on behalf of Jamaican guest workers who claimed they were systematically cheated out of their wages.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parental Arrivals programs is by Naomi Tsu, °Ä²Ê¿ª½± deputy legal director.
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The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has filed a federal safety complaint on behalf of a former worker at an Alabama poultry plant owned by Wayne Farms – the same company fined more than $100,000 by the federal government after an °Ä²Ê¿ª½± complaint uncovered safety violations at a different Alabama plant.
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The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± offered testimony to a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill today about the abuses and failures within the nation’s H-2B guest worker program.
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Less than a month after the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± and the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) filed suit over a state law that discriminated against naturalized citizens registering to vote, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed legislation repealing the law – effectively resolving the lawsuit.
