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09/12/2012
Election 2012: Let Me Vote

Election 2012: Let Me Vote

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:16pm

Do you know what you need in order to vote this year? How about your grandmother? Or your neighbor?  

With a pivotal election less than two months away, we’re launching “Let Me Vote,” a nationwide voting rights campaign to make sure all Americans have the information they need in order to vote.

In a time when dozens of states are trying to make it harder to vote, we need to ensure that everyone—especially students, the elderly and communities of color—know their rights. We all need to fight back against voter restrictions, but in the meantime, we can beat these new barriers by getting ready to vote now.

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04/24/2012
S.B. 1070 at the Supreme Court

S.B. 1070 at the Supreme Court: What Will America Tolerate?

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 12:44pm

How we respond to laws like S.B. 1070 will have an enormous impact on the direction America takes.

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04/20/2012
Excessive Force

PBS Investigates Excessive Force at the Border

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 2:04pm

The ACLU of New Mexico will be featured tonight on PBS’ Need to Know.

In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years. One man died a short time after being beaten and tased, an event recorded by two eyewitnesses whose video is the centerpiece of the report. Both eyewitnesses say the man offered little or no resistance. One told Need to Know that she felt like she watched someone being “murdered,” and the San Diego coroner’s office classified the death as a “homicide.”

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04/12/2012
Voter Suppression

Infographic: The Facts About Voter Suppression

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:18pm

Learn more about how the attack on the right to vote disproportionately impacts minority voters.

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04/05/2012
Voter ID

Let Ruthelle Vote

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 2:39pm

After multiple lawsuits, 84-year-old Ruthelle Frank was able to vote in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary. But she still might not be able to vote in November.

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02/29/2012
H.B. 87

An Unlikely Ally in Fighting Anti-Immigrant Laws

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 2:49pm

A Republican leader who raises goats in Uvalda, Paul Bridges bucks the conservative trend as an outspoken critic of the state's harsh immigration law.

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01/17/2012
H.B. 56

ACLU Client Scott Douglas on The Colbert Report

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:21pm

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Scott Douglas III, executive director of the Greater Birmingham Ministries. Douglas is a plaintiff in the ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups’ lawsuit challenging H.B. 56, Alabama’s draconian anti-immigrant law.

In this video, Douglas talks about why he’s a plaintiff in our case:

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12/15/2011
Voter ID

Holder Stands Up for the Right to Vote

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 4:21pm

Today’s excellent New York Times editorial rightfully praises Attorney General Eric Holder’s efforts this week to highlight the sanctity of the right to vote in America. In his speech from the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, the attorney general said, “The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our system of government — it is the lifeblood of our democracy. And no force has proved more powerful — or more integral to the success of the great American experiment — than efforts to expand the franchise.”

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10/18/2011
End ICE Abuse

Lost in Immigration Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 4:00pm

Tonight at 9 p.m. EDT, Frontline on PBS takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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10/17/2011
End ICE Abuse

Lost in Detention

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:35pm

On Tuesday, October 18, Frontline takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration's immigration policies and the hidden world of immigration detention.

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