ImmDef In The News

Andry Hernández Romero, the gay makeup artist wrongfully disappeared to El Salvador’s CECOT prison by the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), has fled Venezuela to seek safety and formally request asylum in Spain.

On Friday, March 27th, U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, hosted a hearing titled Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Our Children.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/13/26 Contact: Immigrant Defenders Law Center Communications media@immdef.org , 213-634-7615 On One-Year Anniversary, ImmDef Files Claims against DHS on Behalf of Six Venezuelan Men Who Were Tortured in CECOT Survivors speak out and advocates call for an end to third-country transfers LOS ANGELES, CA - On the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration unlawfully invoking the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to render over 250 Venezuelan men to

For Immediate Release 3/12/26 Contact: Immigrant Defender Law Center Communications media@immdef.org Refugees, Asylum, & Immigration Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Public Hearing on the Impact of the United States’s Forced Deportations to Third Countries Washington D.C. — A coalition of 22 immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as part of the IACHR’s 195th sess

In late May 2025, the Trump administration set an arbitrary quota of 3,000 people a day to carry out its mass deportation agenda. Shortly after, in a pattern of highly coordinated, unlawful immigration raids unfolded across Southern California. Agents—often driving unmarked cars, while wearing masks, and refusing to identify themselves — approached individuals at homes, in public spaces, at workplaces or near courthouses and detained them, sometimes violently, on the spot, a