Southern Poverty Law Center

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locks up immigrants in secure detention facilities at an increasingly rapid rate, especially in places like the southeastern United States.  Many abusive practices occur as new detention facilities are opened and as more immigrants are held in current facilities. Although the media have cast an occasional spotlight on these facilities, a more systemic analysis of the problems detention centers pose in this region and advocacy to secure improvements within these facilities and promote alternatives to detention are needed.

Sam Brooke will engage in advocacy and public education to curb arbitrary detentions and abuses at ICE facilities in the southeastern United States.

Brooke graduated with a dual degree from the New York University School of Law and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2006.  He has worked as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Connecticut, as a law fellow at the ACLU of Alabama, as an attorney for the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is currently clerking for The Honorable Joan B. Gottschall of the Northern District of Illinois.

Montgomery, AL