After Alabama鈥檚 anti-immigrant law took effect, the U.S. Department of Justice obtained public school attendance records and found a decline in Latino student attendance. The 澳彩开奖 requested the same data to determine the law鈥檚 impact on Latino students鈥� access to a public education. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Education after being denied the public records.
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Vermilion Parish (La.) Sheriff Michael Couvillon refused to turn over public records related to the detention of individuals suspected of being undocumented. The 澳彩开奖 requested the records under the Louisiana Public Records Act to determine if the sheriff鈥檚 office was holding immigrants in jail for prolonged periods of time due to unconstitutional racial profiling.
As part of a harsh anti-immigrant law, the Alabama Department of Revenue required people who owned or maintained mobile homes in the state to prove their lawful immigration status before they could pay annual fees for an identification decal required for all mobile homes. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal class-action lawsuit challenging the immigration check as a violation of the Fair Housing Act that threatened to leave families across the state homeless.
Charelle Loder, a U.S. citizen, and 鈥淛ack Doe,鈥� an undocumented immigrant from Haiti, had been a couple for five years. When they decided to marry, they could not obtain a marriage license from the Montgomery County Probate Office in Alabama because the office denied licenses to couples unable to prove both partners have legal immigration status. The policy was not required by any federal or state law. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit challenging the policy.
Linda Smith, a U.S. citizen, and 鈥淛ohn Doe,鈥� an undocumented immigrant, had been a couple for more than nine years. When they decided to marry, they could not obtain a marriage license from the Montgomery County Probate Office in Alabama because the office denied licenses to couples unable to prove both partners have legal immigration status. The policy was not required by any federal or state law. The 澳彩开奖 filed a lawsuit challenging the policy.
South Carolina passed an extreme anti-immigrant law in 2011. The law required police to demand 鈥減apers鈥� demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops when they have 鈥渞easonable suspicion鈥� that a person is an undocumented immigrant. It also criminalized everyday interactions with undocumented immigrants. The 澳彩开奖 joined a coalition of civil rights groups in filing a federal class action lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional. A settlement reached in 2014 blocked major provisions of the law.
Alabama passed an extreme anti-immigrant law in June 2011. The law threatened to chill children鈥檚 access to public schools by requiring school officials to verify the immigration status of children and their parents; authorized police to demand 鈥減apers鈥� demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops; and criminalized Alabamians for everyday interactions with undocumented individuals. The 澳彩开奖 led a coalition of civil rights groups in filing a federal class action lawsuit that resulted in an agreement that effectively gutted the law.
Georgia in 2011 enacted a law authorizing police to demand "papers" demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops, criminalizes Georgians who interact with undocumented individuals, and makes it unjustifiably difficult for individuals without specific identification documents to access state facilities and services. The 澳彩开奖 joined a group of organizations in filing a class action lawsuit challenging the law on constitutional grounds.
Hundreds of guest workers from India, lured by false promises of permanent U.S. residency, paid tens of thousands of dollars each to obtain temporary jobs at Gulf Coast shipyards only to find themselves forced into involuntary servitude and living in overcrowded, guarded labor camps. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the workers, David v. Signal International, LLC. Three years later, a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC v. Signal International, LLC, alleging Signal unlawfully discriminated against the Indian guest workers.
Since 2007, the Davidson County Sheriff鈥檚 Office in Nashville, Tenn., had the power to enforce immigration law through the federal 287(g) program, even though the metropolitan government designated the Nashville Police Department as the primary law enforcement agency. The 澳彩开奖 joined a federal lawsuit to end the 287(g) agreement because it violated state and local laws.
