CAIR Coalition
Working to ensure all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights
CAIR Coalition brings together community groups, pro bono attorneys, volunteers and immigrants from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland working to ensure that all immigrants are treated with fairness, dignity and respect for their human and civil rights.
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Features & Case Studies
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Law School Students Secure Freedom for Mentally-Ill Immigrant Detained for Over Two Years
Now full-fledged attorneys, former law students Erica Morgan and Edmundo Saballos spent nearly a year fighting to defend the rights and dignity of their client, I.P., a young man from Honduras who suffered from such severe mental illness that at one point he stopped talking altogether and could only communicate through hand gestures.
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CAIR Coalition Urges Attorney General to Safeguard the Rights of Mentally Ill Immigrant Detainees
Recently, the United States signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and celebrated the 19th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. These two actions mark our nation’s commitment to provide reasonable accommodations to and ensure basic fairness for all people with disabilities. Unfortunately, this commitment falters in our nation’s [...]
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CAIR Coalition Welcomes Announcement of Major Overhaul of Immigration Detention System
Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton, announced plans to institute a set of reforms designed to replace its current decentralized, jail-oriented approach to detention with a system of federally run facilities that will be used solely to house immigrants being held pursuant to violations of civil immigration laws. According to [...]
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