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BREAKING: Immigrants Detained at Torrance County Detention Facility Sue ICE

We filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals detained at TCDF, arguing that ICE wrongly recertified the facility to thwart a federal law that would have required ICE to cancel its contract with the facility.

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An Industry of Misery

The U.S. government’s vast detention and deportation machine works to grind down the spirit of the immigrant. In its wake, communities are torn apart, families separated, and refugees forced to relinquish their right to freedom, inclusion, and safety.

Every case that should win, does win, every time, everywhere

Like you, we are frustrated by the persistent exclusion of immigrants from civil society, the for-profit detention and deportation system, the immoral and inhumane restrictions on movement, and the unrelenting assault on those fleeing persecution. By scaling the impact of immigrant advocates working on-the-ground to defeat the Vast Deportation Machine, we are able to build permanent pathways to immigrant and refugee justice.

Our Cases

Carlos Doe v. ICE

We sued ICE for wrongly recertifying Torrance County Detention Facility in order to continue detaining immigrants there, despite knowledge that dangerous and deplorable conditions persisted.

Doe v. Trump

We sued to challenge the Presidential Proclamation banning immigrant visa applicants from entering the United States based on their inability to pay healthcare costs out of pocket.
Gomez v. Biden

We challenged the immigrant and nonimmigrant visa bans in order to protect families from indefinite separation and to prevent the suspension of the U.S. visa system.
Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden

We challenged the abuse and rights violations of Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, TX, perpetrated under the unlawful Title 42 process.
Haitian Bridge Alliance v. DHS

We sued to demand agency records documenting the abuses and rights violations against Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, Texas.
Immigrant Defenders Law Center et al. v. Mayorkas

We sued in federal court to protect the rights of individuals and organizations impacted by the unlawful Remain in Mexico program.
Innovation Law Lab v. ICE

We are urgently seeking agency records that relate to ICE’s defiance of the DHS OIG recommendations at Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico, as well as any efforts taken to remedy the dangerous conditions documented by the DHS OIG.
Innovation Law Lab v. Wolf (D. Or.)

We sued to protect Oregon community members from being transferred to an out-of-state detention center for their deportation proceedings.
Intervention into Louisiana v. CDC

We moved to intervene in Louisiana v. CDC to prevent the forced continuation of Title 42 along California & New Mexico’s border with Mexico.

Our Programs

Rapid Interventions

We deploy limited, time-bounded interventions at immigrant/refugee crisis points to provide direct representation, mitigate detention, and create opportunities for partners & allies to engage in longer-term interventions.
Equity Corps of Oregon

We combine tactical lawyering and technology to create a replicable model for massive universal representation through our work to defend immigrants in Oregon
Defend Asylum

We create super massive collaborative strategies to defend asylum rights, protect access to the asylum system for persons fleeing persecution, and facilitate fair decisions on the merits.

Clearinghouse

We develop secure regional and national information and service exchanges between direct service providers, impact litigators, and policy advocates.
Anticarceral Legal Organizing

We implement massive collaboration to scale anti-detention work.

We need You.

You have an important role in the fight for immigrant and refugee justice. You can defeat isolation and exploitation. You can create fairness and access to courts.

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How We Work.

Connected

No One Goes it Alone; we are in this together and we will solve it together. We engage in authentic collaboration.

Trust

We rely on each other and our systems, to get things done right at the right time, learning all the time to be better and make it better.

Urgency

We move fast yet we don’t hurry because while we operate in hotspots and hostile conditions, we solve for the crisis.

Intensity

Hardest Place first, Hardest Things First: our priorities are to help those who are more vulnerable and where resources are scarce for system change

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As a nonprofit organization, Innovation Law Lab relies on generous contributions from supporters like you to continue our important work of upholding the rights of immigrants and refugees. Stand with immigrants and refugees making a contribution today

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