December 2nd, 20220DEARBORN — Abed Hammoud, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, has been named the new co-chair of BRIDGES (Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity).
Hammoud has extensive experience in law, practicing at both the state and federal levels, including his eight years serving as assistant U.S. Attorney and 15 years as...
October 26th, 20200WASHINGTON D.C. — On Monday, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) sent a letter to calling for an international investigation into ongoing alleged human rights abuses by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The letter was sent to United...
December 26th, 20191LOS ANGELES — While hundreds of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits await the decision of the Supreme Court on the future of the program, lawyers and immigrant advocates argue that the vast majority of them have sufficient legal rights to remain in this country for several years and maybe...
December 4th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On a cold Monday morning, community leaders stood with the family and friends of Dearborn Heights resident Median El-Moustrah, who is slated for deportation to Lebanon despite the country’s inability to treat his many serious health conditions.
Hours before Thanksgiving Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
November 29th, 20190FARMINGTON HILLS — News came out this week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has now arrested about 250 students of a fake university set up by the Department of Homeland Security in Farmington Hills. The number has increased from 161 students in March.
The fake university was set up to lure students primarily from...
November 27th, 20192DEARBORN HEIGHTS - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport a very ill Dearborn Heights resident to Lebanon, an act which can potentially mean a death sentence for the beloved 49-year-old husband and father of three.
Median El Moustrah has been diagnosed with multiple serious medical conditions, including diabetes,...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN - On Tuesday, August 20, Dearborn City Council voted not to renew its prisoner housing contract with Calhoun County after a decade-long arrangement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold detainees.
This agreement was caused from controversy over detentions of undocumented immigrants by ICE.
The contract...
May 24th, 20190DEARBORN — On Wednesday May 22, Nasser Beydoun, the chairman of the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) was named co-chair of BRIDGES (Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity). Participating steering committee members supported the nomination unanimously.
BRIDGES is a partnership between federal law...
April 12th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Ron Vitiello, just days after her own. Nielsen resigned on Sunday after President Trump declared that he would look for “tougher” candidates to head the...
February 25th, 20190MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich — A driver crossing the Mackinac Bridge suffered injuries after a chunk of ice went through his windshield Sunday.
According to a passenger in another car, Nicole Rogers, the car crossed the bridge toward the Lower Peninsula at about 10:15 a.m. when they saw ice falling from the top of the bridge.
Rogers...
February 15th, 20190DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A Palestinian woman detained after an immigration sting involving a fake college has been granted her release and has returned to her home country of Palestine, sources told The Arab American News.
A day before Najilaa Karim Musarsa was taken into custody and detained, a letter addressed to her by U.S. Immigration...
January 26th, 20190Winter can be a hazardous time of year. Frigid temperatures and slick roads can be dangerous. Being prepared will help you and your family remain safe this winter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide a number of winter safety tips to help you prepare for freezing temperatures and prevent injuries and illness....
December 24th, 20180NEW YORK — On Thursday, a federal appeals court backed the Trump administration in its attempt to deport about 100 Iraqi immigrants who'd been convicted of crimes years ago.
A divided Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling that had blocked President Trump’s bid to send the immigrants back to Iraq....
December 11th, 20180KEY WEST, FLA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Southern Poverty Law Center and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a federal lawsuit Monday Dec. 3 on behalf of a natural-born U.S. citizen who was detained as a result of a Florida sheriff’s collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The ACLU...
November 22nd, 20180DETROIT — A federal judge ordered the release Tuesday of roughly 100 Iraqi detainees held for more than 16 months, saying the federal government cannot indefinitely detain foreign nationals.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith granted two motions filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan in 2017: Release of the...
October 28th, 20180DETROIT — Per the request of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to unseal secret documents that show ICE’s prior statements to the court.
ACLU attorneys appeared before Judge Goldsmith on Wednesday, Oct. 24 to argue for...
October 22nd, 20180Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news.
The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined...
October 16th, 20181A small school district in affluent Marin County in California, serving about 2,000 youngsters in the bucolic West Marin towns of Fairfax and San Anselmo, has contracted with Thomson Reuters — a firm linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to check on the residential status of its students.
Ross Valley School...
September 29th, 20180DETROIT — According to press release by Michigan United, two men scheduled to be deported found ways around the orders of removal last week.
An Albanian immigrant named Ded Rranxburgaj, who took sanctuary in a Detroit church, has a federal hearing on Nov. 13.
Francis Anwana, who came from Nigeria for help with hearing and...
September 23rd, 20180A blue wave in November could not only take the House majority away from the GOP, but could also cause turmoil within the Democratic party next year, according to a report by The Hill.
As a progressive wave grips the party, producing upset primary victories in cities like the Bronx, the publication writes that Democrats are bracing...
August 18th, 20180DETROIT — The Detroit branch of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has detained a Brighton-area father and business owner for the last two weeks.
Fanta Doumbia told The AANews that her father, Banny Doumbia, originally from Ivory Coast, West Africa, was detained at his regular check-in at ICE on Friday, Aug....
July 29th, 20182Civil rights leaders joined Census policy experts on July 17 in an urgent plea, particularly to communities of color, for a show of public activism and force to derail a fast-moving Trump administration effort to officially ignore them. The fight begins by taking full advantage of a narrow window of opportunity in which to speak out...
July 21st, 20183DEARBORN – After a successful ousting of ISIS insurgents and a democratically-held election, Iraq’s situation seemed to be on an uptick. But in the midst of a transition in government, ongoing political corruption, a worsening economy, few jobs and scarce electricity have sparked massive protests across the oil-rich county’s south,...
July 6th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court has blocked the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture or death in their countries of origin. It also ordered a case-by-case review of whether each asylum seeker in a class-action lawsuit should be released on humanitarian parole. The ruling began from a challenge brought...
June 29th, 20180NEW YORK — A 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders organizer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-New York) in a stunning primary upset Tuesday, made the issues of immigration and diversity a central part of her insurgent campaign. Ocasio-Cortez defeated Crowley 57 percent-42 percent after campaigning on...
June 24th, 20180DETROIT – On Monday, a federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to stop coercing Iraqi detainees into signing a document giving up their right to be in the U.S. and agreeing to be deported.
The government is trying to send back the mostly Christian detainees, but the ACLU said their return to Iraqi...
March 16th, 20180DETROIT – An Albanian American family currently in sanctuary in a Detroit church gathered supporters who will hold a press conference on Friday March 16 at the Rosa Parks federal building. The supporters will deliver more than 600 letters to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Jefferson.
Ded Rranxburgaj, an...
February 23rd, 20180NEW YORK — On Tuesday, A New York civil rights group sued Trump administration officials over what it called prolonged detention of immigrant children, blaming recent shifts in U.S. government policy for keeping children locked up without cause.
The New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court,...
