Bio
Aseem Mehta is a legal intern at the ACLU of Southern California, a student at Yale Law School and previously advocated with and on behalf of immigrants facing deportation in New York and South Texas as an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow.
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Trump’s Deportation Machine Runs on Secrecy
The ACLU Fights Back by Getting Detainees Access to the Outside World —
In the past few weeks, shocking images of children jailed by immigration enforcement officials have sparked protests, fundraisers and op-eds across the nation. But these cruel actions by anti-immigration forces was not new.