ImmDef In The News

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

The lawsuit exposes a detention system that is cruel, inhumane, and degrading, with Adelanto serving as a stark example of the harm such conditions cause —where people have been forced to live in unsanitary conditions and subjected to punitive isolation and neglect, conditions that would be considered abuse in almost any other setting.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2025 Press Contact: Renee Garcia, rgarcia@immdef.org , media@immdef.org , 213-634-2186 Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento Partners With ImmDef to Protect Immigrant Families From Federal Deportation Agenda Santa Ana, CA.-- Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is honored to announce a $50,000 personal gift from Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento. The gift will provide funding for attorneys to accompany individuals to immigration hearings