Rogue Immigration Enforcement →

Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) has issued letters to five Attorneys General urging them to reassess the legal options that are available to stop the reckless transportation of migrants into their respective jurisdictions, particularly under circumstances that endanger health and safety. The letters were directed at California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New...

Victory for Martha’s Vineyard Migrants! →

In the lawsuit filed by the Martha’s Vineyard migrants and Alianza Americas, the federal court in Boston has allowed Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) and pro bono counsel to immediately proceed with legal claims against the plane company, Vertol Systems. Vertol contracted with the State of Florida to carry out the flights...

Middlesex County DA Supports Children of Missing Migrant Woman →

Middlesex County District Attorney Provides Critical Support To Children Of Missing East Boston Immigrant Woman Children of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas Apply for Humanitarian Immigration Relief Providing critical support to the children of a woman missing since November 2022, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan has provided U Visa certifications that will allow...

Know-Your-Rights Guides in English and Spanish →

LCR’s Legal Warriors at the HNBA National Conference →

Lawyers for Civil Rights at the 2023 Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) convention.  LCR’s legal warriors and our community partners will be presenting on a wide range of cutting-edge civil rights and intersectional issues at the upcoming HNBA Conference in Minneapolis on September 6-8, 2023. This is where you can find...

LCR’s Legal Warriors at Lav Law →

Lawyers for Civil Rights at the 2023 Lavender Law Conference  LCR’s legal warriors and our community partners presented on a wide range of cutting-edge civil rights and intersectional issues at the Lavender Law Conference hosted by the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association in Chicago on July 24 - 26, 2023.  The...

Haitian Community Group Defends Humanitarian Relief →

Haitian Community Group Defends President Biden’s Humanitarian Immigration Policy Parole Program Offers Hope for Foreign Nationals Fleeing Deadly Conditions Haitian-Americans United, Inc. (HAU) filed a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief in federal court in support of the Biden Administration’s “parole program,” a humanitarian relief effort that allows Haitians fleeing dangerous social, political, and economic...

Health Equity and Immigrant Health →

Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) and our pro bono allies recently submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in support of expanding access to affordable health care for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),...

Sacramento Migrant Crisis →

Statement by Lawyers for Martha’s Vineyard Migrants on Continuing Investigation Into Recent Sacramento Flights Shortly after media reports emerged that two charter planes carrying over 30 migrants, mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, were flown from New Mexico to Sacramento, California, as part of a political stunt engineered by Governor Ron DeSantis, Lawyers...

Lawyers for Martha’s Vineyard Migrants in Sacramento →

Martha's Vineyard Migrants Respond to Recent Flights to Sacramento Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) learned that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — the key defendant in our federal class action lawsuit on behalf of migrants duped into flying to Martha's Vineyard last Fall — has apparently struck again. Media are reporting that migrants from Colombia and Venezuela were...

Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers Are Unlawful →

Immigrants’ Rights Groups Blast Federal Government’s Misguided Asylum Policy Changes  Centro Presente and Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) vehemently opposed the Biden Administration’s proposed restrictions on asylum-seekers at the border. Reminiscent of Trump-era restrictions, the Biden Administration’s proposed asylum changes would create unlawful barriers for migrants fleeing persecution and torture. Immigrants’ rights organizations have detailed the...

Migrants in Massachusetts →

Immigrants’ Rights Groups File Public Records Requests to Shed Light on Arrival of Migrants in Massachusetts Immigration Data Can Inform State/Local Policymaking Centro Presente and Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed public records requests, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Immigration and...

Lawsuit Against U.S. Immigration Agencies on Humanitarian Parole →

Immigrants’ Rights Organizations File Federal Lawsuit Against U.S. Immigration Agencies Seeking Documents on Humanitarian Parole  Humanitarian Parole Is Life-Saving For Many But Shrouded In Mystery The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (“FIRRP”) and Lawyers for Civil Rights (“LCR”) filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) and the U.S....

Statement on Martha’s Vineyard Case →

Lawyers for Civil Rights releases statement responding to the motions presented by Governor DeSantis and his co-defendants in the federal class action filed by Alianza Americas and the migrants who were fraudulently induced to travel by plane to Martha’s Vineyard.  The bottom line is that Governor DeSantis doesn't want to be...

Martha’s Vineyard Migrants Respond to New Florida Legislation →

Florida lawmakers last week approved Governor Ron DeSantis’ request to change the program under which he fraudulently induced 49 migrants to fly to Martha’s Vineyard last Fall. Among other alterations, the new law would remove the restriction in the original law that required migrants to be relocated "from this state."...

Federal Response to Haitian Migrants Held in Squalor Under Border Bridge →

Haitian Migrants Held in Squalid Conditions Under Border Bridge See Progress in Federal Investigation Haitian Americans United and forty-eight Haitian migrants who were unlawfully confined by federal immigration officials under a bridge near Del Rio, Texas, have received a formal response to their civil rights complaint from the U.S. Department...

Boston Police Denies Right to Counsel →

Boston Police Denies Right to Counsel to Community Group Concerned About Disappeared Latina  January 26, 2023 Since the disappearance of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts (LUMA) has been urging law enforcement officials to investigate the matter with immediacy. Reina has been missing since November 26, 2022, but...

Botched Police Investigation in East Boston Reinforces Racial Disparities →

Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) urges the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department (BPD) to investigate the disappearance of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas. To provide zealous police protection to all residents regardless of race, class, or national origin, the City needs to conduct an independent audit surrounding issues of diversity,...