Human Rights First
Since 1978, Human Rights First has championed freedom and dignity for all, at home and abroad. Our near half-century of impact includes securing landmark protections for refugees, building bipartisan guardrails against torture, forging new frameworks to hold global human rights abusers accountable, and uplifting human rights defenders worldwide. Grounded in legal rigor and with a bias towards innovation, we build broad-based coalitions and equip them with new tools to ensure that justice and democracy prevail.www.humanrightsfirst.org
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Oct 18, 2026
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The company, based in Ventura, California, previously bought political ads, campaigned against the oil and gas industry, and endorsed candidates who ran lawmakers who rejected the scientific consensus on climate change.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Customers who made the referrals can choose to receive a $100 credit on their next order from Patagonia or make a donation of the same amount to the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental advocacy group.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Patagonia said that its goal was to reach more than 300,000 people with its campaign and that it had committed up to $11.2 million to the initiative.
Jon FugelsangADVERTISER
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Beowulf RochlenHOST
Wired also reports that without buyouts, the company would almost certainly need to lay off some staff.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
In August, the Washington Post identified 46 cases where police officers have been accused of misusing Flock technology, including cases where they allegedly stalked their wives, girlfriends, or exes.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Florida and Texas both said they will stop using the startup's technology, and an anti-surveillance advocacy group identified 90 cities that dropped Flock in August alone, a four-fold increase from the previous month.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
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Claire HunterGUEST
I spoke French, which helped with the West African cases, so I'd ended up doing a bunch of West African asylum cases while I was in New York.
Claire HunterGUEST
I got involved in Human Rights First, which was a local group that, that processed asylum claims, sort of packaged them up and, and gave them to the firms tied up in a little bow so that you could just go and argue the thing without necessarily having to do a bunch of groundwork.
Claire HunterGUEST
And when I came back to Canada, and I'm... and I came to my firm now, Access Pro Bono had, had started in British Columbia, but it was, like- New-ish still.
Claire HunterGUEST
I would say i- i- the pro bono system here was a lot less developed than it was in the US.
Reef BrelandHOST
The agreement, which has been upheld multiple times, mandates safe and sanitary facilities, requires the least restrictive setting possible, and requires the expedited release of migrant children to family members of licensed program for children.
Reef BrelandHOST
A report from Races and Human Rights First details the condition inside Dilley.
Reef BrelandHOST
Again, article linked in the doobly-doo.
Reef BrelandHOST
The profound and irreparable harm inflicted on thousands of children, the due process violations, weaponization of family separation, and the denial of critical medical care make it clear that this policy must be immediately reversed.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
There were hundreds of people throughout the US government machinery at this point turning a blind eye, choosing for a career reason to, at the US missions to the UN, edit statements, edit memos, choosing to rush through weapons sales approvals, or making it possible...
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
I highlight in the book Rozzaiah, who's the head of an organization now called Human Rights First, who was the head of the Human Rights Bureau inside the State Department, and essentially said to her staff, "Don't send up to Tony Blinken so-called split memos that would require him to make a decision and put his name on it." So there are so many more officials that are part of the system, and what I'd ask us to, to focus on for a more humane foreign policy is those patterns and trends of treating, again, US law expertise as ex- as optional.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
That's simply not.
Akbar Shahid AhmedGUEST
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Gillian BrockellGUEST
which could have been third country removals when this ruling came down.
Gillian BrockellGUEST
According to the New York Times and Human Rights First, they don't believe that any of those actually were third country removals.
Gillian BrockellGUEST
These are the planes that are sometimes used for them, the destination countries that are sometimes used.
Gillian BrockellGUEST
you know, people are sometimes expelled to.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
In August, The Washington Post identified forty-six cases where police officers have been accused of misusing Flock technology, including cases where they allegedly stalked their wives, girlfriends, or exes.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Florida and Texas both said they will stop using the startup's technology, and an anti-surveillance advocacy group identified ninety cities that dropped Flock in August alone, a fourfold increase from the previous month.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
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Beowulf RochlenHOST
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Beowulf RochlenHOST
US District Judge Regina Rodriguez ordered federal authorities to return Brayan Omar Sanchez-Servellon, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in May and deported to the Central African Republic last month.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
The federal judge ordered the Honduran immigrant to be returned to Colorado and released on his own recognizance, along with all his personal belongings, without onerous conditions of release, including, without limitation, GPS monitoring, mandatory reporting, or other restrictions on his movement.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
Sanchez-Servellon is one of twenty-five thousand people deported to so-called third countries during the Trump administration's ongoing immigration crackdown, according to the advocacy group Human Rights First.
Beowulf RochlenHOST
According to court documents, Sanchez-Servellon had lived in the US since twenty sixteen.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Roughly 30 percent of all deportation flights from the United States leave from Alexandria.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
From January through August, 579 flights departed from the airport, putting it on pace to surpass 657 flights in all of 2025 and 357 in 2024, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit that tracks the flights.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
The detention expansion would add to a huge statewide system.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Louisiana already hosts a sprawling network of at least nine immigration detention centers, primarily operated by private for-profit prison corporations under federal contracts.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Roughly 30% of all deportation flights from the United States leave from Alexandria.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
From January through August, 579 flights departed from the airport, putting it on pace to surpass 657 flights in all of 2025 and 357 in 2024, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit that tracks the flights.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
The detention expansion would add to a huge statewide system.
Chris WilhelmNARRATOR
Louisiana already hosts a sprawling network of at least nine immigration detention centers, primarily operated by private, for-profit prison corporations under federal contracts.
Alissa ReznikCORRESPONDENT
Those subject to the practice have often been granted protection from returning to their countries of origin because of a specific threat they face there.
Alissa ReznikCORRESPONDENT
Robin Barnard is with Human Rights First, one of the groups behind the suit.
Alissa ReznikCORRESPONDENT
She says both a district court and an appeals court have already determined the practice violates due process.
Robin BarnardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To allow it to continue until the Supreme Court actually hears arguments and the merits of the case and, and then issues a decision, which could be sometime into next year for an actual decision to be, um, issued, it's truly devastating.
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