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The Fifth Amendment
& immigration enforcement after June 06, 2025
The Fifth Amendment
The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process and fair treatment under the law.
In the aftermath of the June 6 immigration enforcement surge, I worked with Immigrant Defenders Law Center to document violations of these principles through on-the-ground coverage with attorneys, interviews with those affected, and stories from inside detention centers.
These media pieces illuminated how systemic abuses—family separation, denial of medical care, and lack of legal access—represent not just a humanitarian crisis, but a constitutional one.
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Demystifying the chaos of increased immigration enforcement after June 6, 2025 meant reassuring ImmDef’s clients and audience that work is being done toward rectifying the injustice of unlawful detention and denial of due process.
This took a few different forms:
1. Speaking with attorneys on the ground
This video features an ImmDef attorney describing conditions in Los Angeles detention centers based on client testimony. Over 1,600 people are detained in overcrowded, unsanitary federal facilities without consistent access to counsel or basic care—conditions that violate the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of fair treatment and due process.
2. On the ground at detention centers
This video features ImmDef staff attorney Ming reporting from inside the Adelanto ICE detention center. The video documents overcrowded, unsanitary, and deadly conditions caused by mass detention policies that disregard human capacity and due process. As deaths in ICE custody continue to rise, ImmDef’s legal team remains on the ground advocating for humane treatment and constitutional accountability.
3. Perspectives from people directly affected by the raids
This video interview features the Sanchez family, asylum seekers from Venezuela who were arrested by ICE after attending a routine court hearing despite following every legal step in their process. Held for 48 hours in Los Angeles’ B-18 facility without proper food, water, or beds, the family—including their toddler—endured inhumane conditions that violate basic standards of due process and dignity.
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