News & Commentary
Dec 09, 2016
On Immigration, a Ray of Fairness Shines Bright in California
This week, California state lawmakers introduced three groundbreaking bills that could prevent thousands of immigrants from being torn from their families, communities, and the lives they built here.
By Carmen Iguina
Nov 17, 2016
Immigrants' Rights in Trump's America: Know Them
Donald Trump's campaign promises and his victory last week have created deep anxiety among immigrants and our allies in California. Within the ACLU of California, many of us feel directly and personally affected by threats to our communities. This is all too real.
By Andrés Dae Keun Kwon
Nov 04, 2016
Detained Immigrants Aren’t Awaiting Deportation. They’re Awaiting Justice
Search online for the phrase “immigration detention” and you’ll notice lots of hits over the past few months – mostly because the federal government now holds a record number of immigrants in detention facilities. That number will soon surpass 45,000 – a mid-sized city of immigrants locked in prison-like conditions. This week, over two hundred organizations, including the ACLU, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson expressing alarm over record immigration detention rates.
By Ahilan Arulanantham
Sep 22, 2016
Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU Immigration Advocate and Newly Minted MacArthur Genius, Explains Why We All Should Care About Immigrants’ Rights
A: I come from a family of immigrants. I was born here but my parents are Sri Lankan Tamils. They came to this country when there was sporadic violence and widespread discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka. And when I was 10, the civil war started and most of my extended family left Sri Lanka, and many of them came to live with us for several years.When I was a child, I saw first-hand the pain and the challenges that displacement causes. Some of my cousins came and lived with us for differen
By Robin Shulman
Jul 07, 2016
Leave No Man Behind
By Daniel TorresWhen you join the U.S. Marine Corps, you are taught to “leave no man behind.”I lived and breathed those words while serving as an infantryman in the First Battalion, 7th Regiment in Iraq.These days, however, that maxim holds a very different meaning.
Jun 08, 2016
Due Process Denied: Most California Immigrant Detainees Face Deportation Proceedings Without Legal Counsel
Representation matters – and there is a severe representation crisis in California.
By Carmen Iguina
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