Press Releases

Urgent for Employers: TPS Does Not End Today

LOS ANGELES – Nearly 200,000 migrants from El Salvador lawfully living and working in the U.S. under Temporary Protective Status (TPS) have work authorization papers that have a printed expiration date of today, Sept. 9, 2019. But those Employment Authorization Documents (EADs), as the documents are
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Rally in Support of County Lawsuit Against Sheriff Villanueva

LOS ANGELES — Prior to a court hearing on a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles County against Sheriff Alex Villanueva for reinstating a deputy previously fired for domestic violence, several civil rights and anti-racism organizations will rally outside Superior Court. Speakers will call for more checks

TPS Lawsuit: Immigrants & Allies March to Protest Trump Attempt to Deport 400,000 Long-Term Residents

PASADENA — On August 14, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a Trump administration challenge to a preliminary injunction — issued by a federal court last year — that prevented the Department of Homeland Security from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300,000 people from
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

NFL Players, Justice Advocates Pay Bail to Free Immigration Activist Jose Bello

BAKERSFIELD — Farm worker and immigration activist Jose Bello, who was arrested and imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shortly after reciting an anti-ICE and Trump administration poem at a public meeting, has been freed. His ICE-imposed bail of $50,000 was paid by:

ACLU Demands Orange County Comply with the California Values Act

ORANGE — Today, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties sent a letter to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department demanding it stop participating in federal immigration enforcement activities by imprisoning individuals charged with il
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Court Rejects ACLU Bid to Release Rights Activist Jose Bello

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal court judge in San Francisco rejected a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California regarding farm worker and college student Jose Bello, now imprisoned at Mesa Verde detention center in Bakersfield. Bello was arrest

Court Hearing for Man Arrested by ICE Shortly After Reciting Anti-ICE Poem

SAN FRANCISCO — A hearing on the ACLU lawsuit regarding Jose Bello, a Bakersfield man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shortly after publicly reciting a poem critical of ICE, will be held Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit argues that Bello's
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Court Halts Deportation of L.A. Man Arrested at Unlawful Traffic Stop

LOS ANGELES — Deportation proceedings against construction worker Jonathan Mondragon, who was pulled over and arrested by Border Patrol officers in 2017, have been dismissed by the Immigration Court in Los Angeles. The court agreed with a motion filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights