In early 2025, the second Trump administration began detaining immigrant families and children, and by April, the Dilley ...

Human Rights First and RAICES today released a new joint report, “A New Era of ICE Family Prisons,” exposing the pervasive ...

The President’s Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget released today doubles down on the administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, while further slashing humanitarian support for vulnerable ...

Washington, D.C. — A new report released today by ICE Flight Monitor, housed at Human Rights First, exposes the human toll of the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. In September 2025 the ...

Human Rights First Warns Against Implementation of Honduras Asylum Agreement During Pandemic Human Rights First is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN # 13-3116646). We do not favor ...

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Uniting three platforms into one backbone: how shared APIs and integrations let tools “talk” to each other, instead of trapping data in silos. Turning open federal data into action: using court and ...

The CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program allowed the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” on detainees captured after 9/11. It was conducted between 2002 and 2009, with the ...

Congress is poised to further balloon the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) already bloated budget, expanding ICE’s sprawling detention apparatus at a time of record deaths in detention. The ...

Today, Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab announced the launch of ReadyNow!, a free and secure mobile app designed to help immigrants prepare for possible detention and act quickly in moments of ...

On the first day of the Trump-Vance Administration, the President issued a host of anti-immigrant and -refugee Executive Orders that undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and ...