Progressive legal organizations are suing to stop the Trump administration from winding down the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties as well as two ombudsmen focused on immigration.

Brané said she believes roughly 200 people lost their jobs in what she called "Black Friday" cuts. "They're eliminating all the oversight bodies within the Department of Homeland Security at a ...

Prior to our story, the DHS oversight office was about to be turned into a petty cash fund for Trump’s anti-immigrant propaganda, at a time when civil rights protections for migrants in the ...

Functions of DHS Offices That Oversee Civil Rights Protections. The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was created over two decades ago by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, following the ...

They reframed their work as less about protecting civil rights and more about keeping the department out of legal trouble. None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the ...

Consequent to a court litigation, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has disclosed that it will not abolish the three vital oversight bodies, viz: Office for Civil Rights and Civil ...

Civil rights and immigrant advocates are seeking a preliminary injunction to restore three DHS oversight offices closed by the Trump administration. These offices, CRCL, Ombudsman Office, and OIDO ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights ...

DHS’s oversight arm opened an investigation into the controversial arrest of Mahmoud Khalil only days before officials working for that office were placed on administrative leave.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – House Democrats are urging the federal government to reinstate immigration oversight offices shut down in the past few weeks. Nearly 50 Democrats including U.S ...