Press Releases
about Immigrants' Rights
Feb 04, 2021
ACLU Statement on Biden’s Refugee Executive Order
WASHINGTON — President Biden signed an executive order today rescinding the refugee ban, restoring our refugee system, and enhancing processing so that refugees may again be admi...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Feb 04, 2021
ACLU Statement on The Dream Act Introduction
WASHINGTON — In an important stride towards citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people in the United States, Sens. Durbin and Graham today reintroduced the Dream Act, whi...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Feb 03, 2021
ACLU of Louisiana Files Suit Challenging ICE’s Illegal Indefinite Detention of a Togolese Immigrant
NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, alongside the Scott Law Firm, LLC, has filed suit in federal court for the release of a Togolese immigrant being de...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jan 28, 2021
Jury Finds Anoka County, Minnesota Jail Committed False Imprisonment
In the first virtual federal jury trial in Minnesota, a jury Thursday found that Anoka County and its sheriff falsely imprisoned a young woman by slow-walking her booking and follo...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jan 28, 2021
ACLU of Louisiana Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Whether Federal Courts Have Authority to Review Allegations of ICE Overreach
NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana—alongside DLA Piper LLP, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Appellate Advocacy Clinic, and George P. ...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Jan 27, 2021
ACLU Calls on President Biden to End PACR/HARP Protocols
HOUSTON – The ACLU of Texas and the national ACLU are calling on President Biden to end the immigration policy known as Prompt Asylum Claim Review and the Humanitarian Asylum Rev...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
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News & CommentaryMar 2026
Immigrants' Rights
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All The Ways Palantir Is Assisting Trump’s Abusive Removal Campaign. Explore News & Commentary.All the Ways Palantir is Assisting Trump’s Abusive Removal Campaign
How culpable is the company for the constitutional and human rights violations of the deportation drive? -
News & CommentaryMar 2026
Immigrants' Rights
'i Have No Rights': Minnesota Residents Sue Trump Administration For Racial Profiling, Stops Without Suspicion, And Warrantless Arrests. Explore News & Commentary.'I Have No Rights': Minnesota Residents Sue Trump Administration for Racial Profiling, Stops Without Suspicion, and Warrantless Arrests
Immigration arrests have upended life in Minnesota as citizens detail unlawful and violent interactions with ICE in court testimonies as part of an ACLU lawsuit against the Trump administration. -
News & CommentaryMar 2026
Immigrants' Rights
A Sunday At An Idaho Racetrack Ended In A Mass Immigration Raid. Hundreds Faced Cruel Detention Practices.. Explore News & Commentary.A Sunday at an Idaho Racetrack Ended in a Mass Immigration Raid. Hundreds Faced Cruel Detention Practices.
More than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement launched an unlawful and discriminatory immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho. -
News & CommentaryMar 2026
Immigrants' Rights
Trump’s Firing Of Noem Signals Need For New Vision On Immigration. Explore News & Commentary.Trump’s Firing of Noem Signals Need for New Vision on Immigration
With the Department of Homeland Security losing Kristi Noem as secretary and facing a funding crisis, lawmakers have a unique opportunity to advance a new path forward for immigration.