Motions to Suppress: Protecting the Constitutional Rights of Immigrants in Removal Proceedings

Description

Fighting back to protect immigrants and defend individual constitutional rights occurs at both the policy level and in individual cases. Immigration attorneys and representatives can zealously defend clients in removal and bond proceedings, seek to suppress illegally obtained evidence and terminate cases where ICE has violated the constitution or its own regulations, and sue agents and agencies that violate immigrants’ rights for damages. Lawyers can work with organizers and the immigrant community to help understand the systems that put them at risk and the laws that they can invoke to defend themselves. This manual will discuss both the law governing individual constitutional rights in arrests, detention and deportation, and the policies and structures that underlie immigration enforcement. With these tools and explanations, we hope that immigrant advocates can hold the government accountable and protect immigrant communities.