ACLU Statement on Forcible Removal of U.S. Senator Padilla
This week alone, we’ve witnessed immigration raids and attacks on protesters, but the assault on the nation’s most senior Latino leader paints a vivid picture of an administration that is increasingly unleashed and behaving like thuggish autocrats.
Cecillia Wang is a deputy legal director at the national ACLU and directs the Center for Democracy, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on immigrants’ rights, voting rights, national security, human rights, and speech, privacy and technology.