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Immigration and the Treatment of Non-Citizens

  • US/California: Governor Should Protect Immigrant Crime Victims
    Oct 1, 2012
    A bill known as the Trust Act that California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed on September 30, 2012, would have encouraged immigrants to report crimes and seek redress.
  • UN Human Rights Council: Adoption of the Outcome of the United Kingdom's UPR
    Sep 19, 2012
    The Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom addressed a range of concerns including counterterrorism legislation and policies, as well as ways in which the UK is failing to its obligations to promote and protect women’s human rights.
  • Don't Kick Immigration Reform Down the Road
    Sep 5, 2012
    While politicians select their horses for the presidential race at the party conventions, someone needs to remind them that millions of Americans are quite ready to discuss immigration reform that would pull a large group of people, aching to be productive and constructive members of society, out from the shadows.
  • US/California: Improve Trust Between Immigrants and Law Enforcement
    Aug 31, 2012
    HRW writes in strong support of the TRUST Act, which would advance public safety by limiting the response to ICE holds of unauthorized immigrants to those convicted or charged by a District Attorney of serious or violent offenses, and by making clear to immigrant communities that mere contact with local law enforcement, including by victims and witnesses, will not lead to reporting to ICE.
  • Immigration waivers leave migrant children behind
    Aug 29, 2012
    The Department of Homeland Security began taking applications for "deferred action for childhood arrivals," temporary relief from deportation for unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the USA as children. Deferred action is intended for children who are "American" in everything but legal status, but the program's idea of "American" is unlikely to include child migrant farmworkers.
  • US: Immigrant Ruling Rejects State Overreach
    Aug 21, 2012
    A federal appeals court ruling held that Alabama and Georgia overstepped their authority to regulate immigrants, but left intact abusive provisions that allow authorities to investigate a person’s legal status during police stops.
  • US: Immigrants at Risk After Mixed Supreme Court Ruling on Arizona Law
    Jun 25, 2012
    The US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold part of Arizona’s immigrant law puts immigrant families in Arizona and other states at greater risk of abuse from local authorities. The ruling overturned several sections of the Arizona law, but it left intact a section requiring police to attempt to verify a person’s immigration status if they have “reasonable suspicion” that the individual is in the country without authorization.
  • US: New Deportation Policy Recognizes Ties to US
    Jun 15, 2012
    The Obama administration’s decision to end the deportation of certain young unauthorized immigrants recognizes the special consideration due immigrants who have lived in the United States since childhood.
  • US: Issue Comprehensive Prison Rape Protections for All Immigration Detainees
    Jun 13, 2012
    Human Rights Watch and 45 other organizations sent a letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano today, urging the Department of Homeland Security to develop strong, comprehensive standards to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in immigration facilities.
  • US: Female Farmworkers at Risk for Sex Abuse
    Jun 3, 2012
    Hundreds of thousands of female farmworkers face a high risk of sexual violence and harassment as they grow, pick and pack food in the United States. Americans may disagree on the way forward for immigration reform, but our current mix of contradictory federal laws infused with harsh state and local anti-immigrant policies is not only dysfunctional - it is abusive. Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that farmworkers can fully assert their rights to protection from abuse. When we eat what farmworkers produce, we must also work to ensure their safety.
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