While international law permits states to establish immigration policies and deportation procedures, it does not grant them discretion to violate human rights in the process. The United States regularly fails to uphold international human rights law in its immigration laws and enforcement policies, by violating the rights of immigrants to fair treatment at the hands of government, to proportional sanctions, to freedom from arbitrary detention, to respect for the right to family unity, and to protection from return to persecution. Such policies violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Refugee Convention, treaties to which the United States is party.
-
Mario Chavez shares a moment with his wife, Lizeth Chavez, through the border fence at Playas de Tijuana during a weekend family visit. Mario, a US citizen, cannot not leave the US because of parole restrictions, and Lizeth, a Mexican citizen, does not have a visa to go to the United States.© 2008 David Maung
Reports
-
The Harmful Impact of US Border Prosecutions
-
The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment
-
Alabama’s Immigrant Law
Unfair Immigration Policies
-
Jun 27, 2013
-
Jun 26, 2013
-
Jun 21, 2013
-
Jun 19, 2013
-
Jun 17, 2013
-
Jun 17, 2013
-
Jun 13, 2013
-
Jun 6, 2013
-
Jun 3, 2013
-
May 24, 2013












