Southern Border Communities Coalition Files Supreme Court Amicus in Barnes v. Felix to Urge End to Excessive Use of Force by Law Enforcement
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Southern Border - Today, the Southern Border Communities Coalition took its fight for dignity and human rights to the U.S. Supreme Court by filing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a major police shooting case, Barnes v. Felix, to hold law enforcement including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), accountable for decades of unchecked killings and abuse.
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Southern Border Communities Coalition, Sierra Club, and ACLU Appeal General Land Office Case to Defend Border Wall Remediation Settlement
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Southern Border - This week, the Southern Border Communities Coalition and the Sierra Club continued the fight to protect their landmark settlement committing the federal government to restore public lands harmed by illegal border wall construction during the Trump Administration. SBCC and Sierra Club filed an appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in General Land Office of Texas v. Biden, an unrelated case brought by Texas and Missouri where the district court ruled to prohibit the federal government from using congressional appropriations to remediate and mitigate damage caused by border wall construction.
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Media Advisory: Press Conference - Civil Society Organizations Report Out on White House Meeting on Implementation of Human Rights Treaties in the United States
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Following a first-ever meeting of its kind at the White House under the Biden Administration, 45 civil society organizations will meet with representatives including from the Vice President's Office and nine federal agencies to discuss implementing human rights obligations here at home in the United States, beginning with creating a National Human Rights Institution to ensure federal state and local policies and practices align with international human rights standards.
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SBCC Applauds “Parole in Place” Executive Actions that Could Provide Protection for Many Southern Border State Families
SOUTHERN BORDER — Today, President Biden announced new executive actions that could keep families together and provide affirmative immigration relief for many undocumented residents married to U.S. citizens through the use of a longstanding immigration authority known as “parole in place”. In the absence of Congress failing to fulfill its duty to fix our immigration system to uphold human rights, this represents the largest expansion of immigration protection for border communities in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas since DACA twelve years ago in 2012.
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Border Communities To President Biden: ‘Fight For Our Dignity’ & End 100 Years of Border Patrol Violence
Families of border residents slain by border agents and impacted community members decry 100 year anniversary of Border Patrol
Southern Border — Today as the U.S. Border Patrol marks its 100 year anniversary, community members decried a century of harm, violence and impunity the agency has imprinted on border communities, as advocates issued a joint letter to President Biden to rein in the largest law enforcement agency in the nation. Today, May 28, is also the same anniversary of the beating and torture of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, who is survived by his wife Maria Puga and children after Border agents left him for dead in 2010 after trying to cross the San Ysidro U.S.-Mexico border.
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Media Advisory: Impacted Community Members Call for End of Legacy of Violent & Abusive Border Policing on Border Patrol 100-Year Anniversary
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Impacted Community Members Call for End of Legacy of Violent & Abusive Border Policing on Border Patrol 100-Year Anniversary
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New GAO Report on Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams (CITs) Points to Widespread and Ongoing Abuse of Power
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Border Communities Call for Elimination of all Incarnations of Cover-Up Teams
Southern Border — Yesterday the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams (CITs) that was prompted by a 2021 letter sent to Congress by the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC). The GAO report validates community concerns that Border Patrol has used CITs to engage in criminal investigations of border agents for use of force without any congressional authority and with the contrary purpose of managing “civil liability”. The report points to widespread and ongoing abuse of power at the nation’s largest law enforcement agency. In light of this, SBCC calls for an end to all current and future incarnations of CITs to ensure the integrity and independence of criminal investigations.
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Sierra Club, Southern Border Communities Coalition, and ACLU Act to Protect Border Wall Remediation Settlement Amid Texas Court Decision
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Southern Border - In response to a recent Texas court order implicating Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition’s (SBCC) settlement with the U.S. government concerning the illegal use of military construction funds for border wall projects, Sierra Club and SBCC took decisive action to protect the agreement’s vital remediation projects by filing a Motion to Intervene in the case.
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Federal Court Affirms What Advocates Have Said For Nearly A Year: Children Held In Open Air Detention Sites Are In Customs and Border Protection’s Custody
SOUTHERN BORDER - In a significant victory yesterday, a court decision affirmed that children held in Open Air Detention Sites (OADS) are indeed under the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This ruling comes on the heels of nearly a year of documentation and multiple administrative complaints filed by the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) and its partners with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) concerning the dire conditions migrants face while detained at these sites.
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More than 125 Border and National Organizations Demand Biden Administration Refuse Support for Texas’ Operation Lone Star and Reject SB 602 Agreements
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TEXAS – On the eve of President Biden’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, 128 advocacy organizations from across the southern border region and the country issued a joint letter today demanding President Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Mayorkas refuse to sign any agreements with the state under TX SB 602, new Operation Lone Star legislation now in effect allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to enforce Texas state criminal laws at Border Patrol checkpoints and Ports of Entry.
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