Immigration Officials Announce Release of Detainees with Mental Disabilities Who Were Lost in Detention for Years
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'Reforms' on way for immigration detainees
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
By Cindy Carcamo, Doug Irving, and Eric Carpenter
March 26, 2010
Immigrants' Rights
By Cindy Carcamo, Doug Irving, and Eric Carpenter
Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Lost in Detention for Years
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – For five years, two men with mental disabilities have languished in immigration detention, effectively lost in a system that has no established procedures to determine whether they should be released or whether their cases should be resolved in another way.
ACLU/SC Urges LAPD to Examine Policies After Officers Fatally Shoot Autistic Man
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The ACLU of Southern California is disturbed by recent reports that two LAPD gang officers fatally shot an unarmed, 27-year-old autistic man in Koreatown on March 20th.
The following statement can be attributed to ACLU/SC Executive Director Ramona Ripston.
Veteran sues VA over removal of upside-down flag
By Bob Pool
Robert Rosebrock didn't see any action during his two-year stint as an Army draftee in the mid-1960s. He was a corporal who worked as a clerk and a driver for the commanding general at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, after all.
ACLU/SC Sues Veterans Administration for Denying Free Speech Rights to Veteran
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the Veterans Administration today for denying a 67-year-old Army veteran his free-speech right to protest the agency’s failure to use part of its property in west Los Angeles for the benefit and care of veterans, particularly those wh