...Individuals presumed to be gang members face “heightened police surveillance, increased probability of police encounters and, for some, the threat of deportation,” according to a letter sent in...
...Most importantly, the ban continues the Trump administration’s vicious assault on multiple forms of immigration. A recent report by the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented how the...
The Buffalo Police Department discriminated against people of color through traffic enforcement practices, including checkpoints that targeted neighborhoods where the majority of residents are black...
...This is the process many Yemenis must undergo to obtain US visas, explains Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. The center oversees the Yemeni...
...Recently a delegation from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Yale Law School traveled to Djibouti to interview Yemenis stuck in the small coastal nation. While there, the team was contacted...
...Ibraham Qatabi, a legal worker at The Center for Constitutional Rights, told NPR that Mozeb’s situation is not uncommon. “Some had already been told their visas were approved only to later be...
...About 44,000 Yemeni-Americans live in the U.S., according to the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights. When the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Sanaa closed after the outbreak of war,...
...“All of them were hanging their hopes on the Supreme Court decision,” said Diala Shamas, a staff lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based advocacy group that sent...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights studied the waiver process in a recent report, “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban .” The authors found that the process was almost entirely random with consular...
...“Thousands or millions of peoples lives now depend on this waiver process. It’s become their only hope,” said Diala Shamas, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “It’s quite possible...
