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.

Also being cut were the DHS Office of the Immigration Detention ... “DHS remains committed to civil rights protections but must streamline oversight to remove roadblocks to enforcement ...

The office closure resulted in the effective suspension of over 600 complaints against DHS and Immigration ... rather than its Civil Rights office. Prior to our story, the DHS oversight office ...

DHS has previously described the office as acting as an internal roadblock to the agency’s immigration ... civil rights safeguards at DHS and the removal of congressionally mandated oversight ...

The Office of the Immigration ... firing of the entire DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties workforce, he is ensuring in advance that there will be no transparency or oversight of his extreme ...

Civil rights ... to restore three DHS oversight offices closed by the Trump administration. These offices, CRCL, Ombudsman Office, and OIDO, provided crucial oversight of immigration enforcement.

On Feb. 10, more than a dozen Department of Homeland Security officials joined a video conference to discuss an obscure, sparsely funded program overseen by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil ...

In contrast, the Office of Immigration ... of the entire DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties workforce, he is ensuring in advance that there will be no transparency or oversight of his extreme ...

Civil Rights Groups Sue to Restore Jobs at Homeland Security Oversight ... obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission,” the department ...

Gabe Vasquez, D-New Mexico, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday demanding the reinstatement of the Office for Civil Rights ... of DHS power. “Shutting down oversight ...

On March 21, Homeland Security said it was implementing a reduction in force at the three offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention ...