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WEBHow Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care. The ACLU’s latest report outlines how interior immigration checkpoints and anti-immigrant state policing trap noncitizens trying to leave Texas... By Sarah Mehta, Blair Wallace.
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WEBACLU Reaction to Biden Administration’s Changes to Most Recent Asylum Ban. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced today that it will make it harder for people to exercise their right to seek asylum by further entrenching the restrictions in its... Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights.
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WEBSince our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
Eight Supreme Court Cases To Watch | ACLU
WEBMay 16, 2024 · The ACLU has served as counsel or filed friend-of-the-court briefs in all of the cases addressing these hot-button issues. The court will decide all its cases by the beginning of July. Here are eight undecided cases to watch, and what they mean for the future of our civil liberties.
Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the ...
WEBAug 17, 2021 · The ACLU has taken action against unlawful voter purges and laws that enable them. In 2019, we stopped Texas’ flawed, discriminatory voter purge list that targeted naturalized citizens.
Criminal Law Reform - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBThe Criminal Law Reform Project (CLRP) seeks to end criminal justice policies that fuel mass incarceration, over-criminalization, and racial injustice. By fighting for transformational change to policing, pretrial detention, public defense, and probation and parole, CLRP is working to reverse the tide of mass incarceration, advance ...
LGBTQ Rights - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBIn the last few years, states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywhere.
Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer | ACLU
WEBJun 11, 2020 · Almost exactly six years after NYPD officers murdered Eric Garner in New York City, Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd. Activists, advocates, and protestors are still screaming “I can’t breathe” and begging government officials for police reform that will end police violence in Black communities.
Privacy & Technology | American Civil Liberties Union
WEBThe ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project fights in the courts, lobbies on Capitol Hill, and works with technology companies to ensure that civil liberties are protected as technology advances.
ACLU Bus Tour Brings Banned Books to Georgia | ACLU
WEBSep 17, 2024 · ACLU Bus Tour Brings Banned Books to Georgia. Content creator Jameelah Jones and author Seema Yasmin joined the first stop on the ACLU’s Know Your Rights Bus Tour to discuss how your vote helps to fight classroom censorship.