ACLU, Sept. 23, 2024 "The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records regarding the agency’s potential plans to expand immigration detention across the country. The ACLU submitted...
ACLU Nebraska, Feb. 9, 2024 "A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nebraska paints a stark picture of people’s experiences in the Omaha immigration court, a court that is already known as one of the nation’s toughest...
ACLU Texas, Dec. 19, 2023 "The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the ACLU, and the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) filed a lawsuit today challenging Texas Senate Bill 4 , which would permit local and state law enforcement to arrest and detain people...
Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, Dec. 8, 2023 "A federal judge in San Diego on Friday approved a settlement that prohibits U.S. officials from separating migrant families for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and offers aid to thousands of parents...
ACLU New Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023 "A group of immigrants detained in inhumane conditions at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for certifying a sham inspection in 2022 that allowed...
ACLU, Aug. 29, 2023 "The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) systematically, and illegally, discriminates against immigrants, refugees, and anyone who prison officials suspect is born outside of the United States, a major Public...
Uriel J. García, Texas Tribune, Aug. 21, 2023 "Immigrant rights advocates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against two South Texas sheriffs and two state prison wardens on behalf of four Mexican migrants, claiming they were held in prison for as...
ACLU of Florida, May 22, 2023 "A group of Chinese citizens who live, work, study, and raise families in Florida, as well as a real estate brokerage firm in Florida that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, are filing a lawsuit to combat Florida’s...
ACLU, May 11, 2023 "The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Northern California, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and National Immigrant Justice Center filed a legal challenge today to the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. The challenge...
ACLU Colorado, Mar. 17, 2023 "After five years of litigation that included a precedent-setting decision by the Colorado Supreme Court and two stops at the Court of Appeals, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has finally compensated Saul Cisneros for...
Sean Rice, KRDO, Feb. 14, 2023 "Attorneys for former El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder, who was being sued in his official capacity, have agreed to pay a $25,000 dollar settlement to someone immigration authorities say was an undocumented immigrant. The...
Dec. 2, 2022 letter from ACLU Texas to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Troy Miller, Acting Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection Peter Mina, Acting Officer, DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Matthew Klein...
ACLU of Maine, Apr. 17, 2023 "A federal judge last week ordered United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct a new search of the agency’s records and to release items related to their detention practices in Maine and a proposed facility in...
Jesse Paul, Colorado Sun, Feb. 22, 2023 "The Teller County Sheriff’s Office did not violate state law when it agreed to hold inmates on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement even after they posted bond, a judge ruled Wednesday in a closely...
ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project v. ICE "In this action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), plaintiff appeals an award of summary judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (George B. Daniels, Judge)...