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Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Cases In dozens of cities across the country, local government officials are attempting to drive those they describe as “illegal immigrants” out of their towns by punishing those who employ or rent to them. Learn more >>

Court Blocks Local Arizona Anti-Solicitation Law (08/08/2008)
PHOENIX – The U.S District Court in Phoenix today blocked the town of Cave Creek, Arizona from enforcing an anti-solicitation ordinance that infringes on the free speech rights of day laborers in that town. The order ensures that day laborers will be able to exercise their constitutional rights by expressing their availability to work in public areas.

ACLU Obtains Government "Manual" For Prepackaged Guilty Pleas For Prosecution Of Immigrant Workers In Postville, Iowa (07/31/2008)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union obtained a government "manual" distributed to defense lawyers assigned to represent immigrant workers arrested and prosecuted in last May's Postville, Iowa meatpacking raids. The document – posted on the ACLU Web site today – contains prepackaged scripts for plea and sentencing hearings as well as documents providing for guilty pleas and waivers of rights that were used to push the more than 300 Postville workers through mass criminal proceedings as quickly as possible.

Civil Rights Groups Urge Appellate Court To Overturn Arizona Employer Sanctions Law (06/12/2008)

El tribunal suspende ley local que prohíbe solicitar empleo en Arizona (06/02/2008)

Court Blocks Local Arizona Anti-Solicitation Law (06/02/2008)
PHOENIX - The U.S District Court in Phoenix issued a preliminary order today stopping the town of Cave Creek, Arizona from enforcing an anti-solicitation ordinance that infringes on the free speech rights of day laborers in that town. Pending a final ruling in the case, the order ensures that day laborers will be able to exercise their constitutional rights by expressing their availability to work by standing in public areas without fear of being cited under the ordinance.

Lopez, et al. vs. Town of Cave Creek, et. al. - Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction (08/08/2008)

Lopez, et al vs. Town of Cave Creek - Motion for Preliminary Injunction Granted (06/02/2008)

Complaint in Lopez, et al vs. Town of Cave Creek, et. al. (03/25/2008)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Order Denying Injunction Pending Appeal (02/28/2008)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Complaint (12/12/2007)

ACLU Backgrounder on English Only Policies in Congress (12/10/2007)
In 2006 the Senate took up an amendment to make English the national language in connection with the Comprehensive Immigration Reform (“CIR”) Act. The amendment, offered by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), passed the Senate by a vote of 62 to 35. This amendment was substantially diluted by the subsequent passage of an alternative amendment by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) which declared English as the “common and unifying language of the United States.” Both amendments, largely symbolic in nature, died when the Senate failed to pass CIR. Similar amendments were introduced and passed in the 2007 version of the CIR, which also failed to become law. Nonetheless, the fact that nearly two-thirds of the Senate voted to make English the national language illustrates the intense, and unfortunately misguided, fervor surrounding the English-only debate.

ACLU of Virginia Letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors (07/09/2007)

Escondido, Calif., Resolution No. 2007-16 and Final Statement (01/10/2007)
Escondido, California's, Resolution No. 2007-16 and final statement.

Farmers Branch, Texas, Ordinance No. 2892 (01/02/2007)

Hazleton, Pa., Ordinance No. 2006-40 (12/26/2006)
Entitled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Implementation Amendment," this ordinance is the third version of the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act.

Government "manual" distributed to Iowa defense lawyers (07/31/2008)
Government "manual" distributed to defense lawyers assigned to represent immigrant workers arrested and prosecuted in the May 2008 Postville, Iowa meat packing raids.

Letter to Esmeralda County School District Superintendent Robert Aumaugher (01/31/2008)
Letter from the ACLU of Nevada and the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project requesting Aumaugher to reconsider and rescind the school district's policy prohibiting public high school students in the district from speaking Spanish while riding the school bus.

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Cherokee County, Ga. (01/19/2007)

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Valley Park, Mo. (01/05/2007)

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Farmers Branch, Texas (01/05/2007)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard (11/14/2007)
Civil Rights Coalition Argues Arizona Employer Sanctions Law Is Illegal