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Students Call for Increased Access to Higher Education

LOS ANGELES - As high school seniors graduate and look to the future this month, local students called on Congress Monday to pass the DREAM Act, a federal bill that would increase access to higher education for undocumented immigrant students and give them the opportunity to pursue their goals af

June 27, 2005

ACLU/SC Denounces Military Plan to Create Monster Database of Minors' Personal Information

LOS ANGELES - Over the last several months the ACLU of Southern California has been working with countless parents, students and teachers who are deeply concerned about extreme efforts to recruit their children to the military.

June 24, 2005

ACLU/SC Raises Serious Concerns About City's Plan to Curtail Civilian Oversight of Some Law Enforcement

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU of Southern California strongly objects to a City of Los Angeles proposal that would effectively end civilian oversight of six law enforcement departments and agencies. The Police Commission is expected to vote on the plan Tuesday.

June 20, 2005

ACLU and United Airlines Announce Settlement of Case on Behalf of Plaintiffs Assem Bayaa and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

LOS ANGELES'The American Civil Liberties Union and United Airlines announced today that they have reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Assem Bayaa and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), charging that the airline discriminated against Bayaa by removing him fro

June 17, 2005

Hundreds of Documents Released to the ACLU Shed Light on Last Summer's Border Patrol Raids

LOS ANGELES - Exactly one year after hundreds of people were arrested near bus stations and supermarkets for alleged immigration violations, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has obtained more than a thousand pages of documents that may confirm community suspicions that th

June 9, 2005

Discriminatory Bank Policy Prohibits Foreigners from Receiving Credit

LOS ANGELES - What do Yao Ming and Russell Crowe have in common?

May 24, 2005