Human rights, civil rights, immigrant rights and labor groups rallied last week outside the city’s Wilson Building, to urge the D.C. City Council to maintain its historic role of leadership in creating laws that protect immigrants.
Activists packed council chambers at a city council hearing at the district's Wilson Building to support an act that would impose limits on the way the city complies with federal immigration authorities in detaining undocumented migrants.
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I spent the 1980s in law enforcement. My primary duties as a sheriff’s deputy were enforcing drug laws in Fayetteville, North Carolina. My level of success and professionalism eventually led to a bigger assignment as a special federal marshal assigned to an organized crime and drug enforcement task force.
I spent my July 4th weekend at an internment camp in Idaho with a group of Asian-American and Muslim students, reflecting on how racial profiling has targeted different groups throughout history.
Nearly 400 community members came together in Atlanta this past weekend for a Know Your Rights presentation on HB 87. The diverse group of immigrants from all over East and Southeast Asia and Latin America came together along with white and African American allies to learn about how the first Arizona copycat to pass in the South, Georgia's HB 87, will affect their communities when it goes into effect at the end of the week.
This story points out an ACLU employee's surprise when he witnessed Latinos being pulled aside and questioned by federal agents at a bus station in Iowa.
Watch Michelle Alexander, professor and former director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project, discuss the serious consequences of racial profiling in the War on Drugs and the skyrocketting prison population. Use this video to start a Conversation on Racial Profiling in your community!
This week, the ACLU released a new report, "Nothing to Fear: Debunking the Mythical “Sharia Threat” to our Judicial System," which seeks to combat claims by anti-Muslim groups that have inco
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The American Civil Liberties Union today released a video of nationally acclaimed comedian Elon James White using humor to convey how best to respond when stopped by police, and to drive home the rights that all Americans have during any encounter with law enforcement officers.
WASHINGTON – Rights Working Group supports Make the Road and their local partners in demanding that the New York City Council enact new legislation requiring the NYC Department of Corrections to affirmatively assist in executing ICE's civil immigration detainers only on those individuals who pose a serious risk to our communities.