'Repressive tactics': Highly-respected global org issues Kristi Noem a warning

Groups Sue Secretary Noem, DHS for Shuttering of Civil Rights Offices

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Southern Border Communities Coalition, and Urban Justice Center – represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and Democracy Forward – filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to challenge the Trump administration’s decision last month to close DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office, and Office of the Immigrati…

'Repressive tactics': Highly-respected global org issues Kristi Noem a warning

The global human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday called on supporters of the United States' core constitutional rights to write to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, demanding that the Trump administration stop its campaign to strip foreign students of their right to be in the country for exercising their First Amendment freedoms.As Common Dreams reported Tuesday, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accosted fo…