Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 16, 2024 "Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the federal district...
The future of immigration law practice is in good hands! Jessica Martinez, Director of Policy and Coalition Building, NMILC "Jessica joins NMILC as a Corinne Wolfe Fellow for Transformative Advocacy. Jessica will be representing unaccompanied minors and...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 9, 2024 "As safe corridors for migration disappear, more people risk their lives crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. And more people die. A new report by the nonprofit No More Deaths , along with a searchable map...
Caroline Tracey, High Country News, Dec. 21, 2023 "According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, 8,050 migrants perished in the Borderlands between 1998 and 2020, though researchers believe the real figure to be much higher, since many remains are...
Austin Fisher, Source NM, Dec. 8, 2023 "When human waste flooded part of a U.S. immigration prison in central New Mexico last month, guards ordered incarcerated people to clean it up with their bare hands and put them in solitary confinement when they protested...
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed...
Susan Montoya Bryan, Rio Yamat, Associated Press, Sept. 27, 2023 "Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the...
Las Americas, Aug. 21, 2023 " This week, the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (LAIAC), Innovation Law Lab, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) submitted a complaint to the Department...
Fallon Fischer, CBS, Apr. 6, 2023 "New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed into law House Bill 15 , which allows young immigrants to stay in New Mexico if returning to their home country is not safe. House Bill 15 establishes a Special...
Innovation Law Lab, Mar. 1, 2023 "On February 24, 2023, Innovation Law Lab, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and Santa Fe Dreamers Project delivered a letter to the offices of: US Department of Homeland Security...
Phaedra Haywood, Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 21, 2022 "U.S. senators from California and Massachusetts have joined New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján in calling for the closure of a Torrance County immigration detention center. The lawmakers...
Morgan Lee, Associated Press, Aug. 23, 2022 "New Mexico will no longer deny licenses to practice law solely because of an applicant’s citizenship or immigration status, including some aspiring law students who arrived in the U.S. as children and don’t have...
ACLU-NM, May 13, 2021 " The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC) today filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine asylum-seekers formerly detained at the Torrance County Detention Facility as well as...
Associated Press, May 14, 2021 "The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center on Friday sued a private prison company over the treatment of nine immigrant detainees at the Torrance County Detention Center. The...
Gov. Lujan Grisham, June 10, 2019 "Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday announced her office, on behalf of the state of New Mexico, is suing the U.S. government in an effort to halt the Trump administration’s indiscriminate practice of releasing migrants...