The Trump administration’s new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is drawing national outrage for its inhumane conditions, lack of due process, and environmental risks.
The ACLU has filed a comment warning that the HHS’s new directive would exclude noncitizens from dozens of community health, early education and social support programs, which they called “unlawful” and “harmful” to vulnerable communities.
The ACLU has reported that officials in Starr County, Texas have been denied the chance to avoid accountability for wrongfully arresting and charging a woman with murder after a medicated abortion, in violation of her constitutional rights and Texas law.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary order barring federal immigration agencies from conducting certain types of stops in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a move which has drawn strong opposition from the ACLU of Southern California.
The ACLU and its partners have successfully blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, and the fight to protect this fundamental right for future generations continues in the courts.
The Sacramento Homeless Union has won a federal lawsuit against the City of Sacramento, resulting in a legal settlement that provides protections for unhoused residents during extreme heat events.
The Trump administration has made $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and has attacked the free press by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, according to the ACLU, which argues that these actions violate the First Amendment.
The Trump administration is using military force to conduct immigration raids in American cities, which is a dangerous erosion of the line between civilian and military authority and threatens the constitutional balance and civil liberties at the heart of American democracy.
The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP have filed a lawsuit against Sonoma County, alleging that the county’s code enforcement agency has conducted hundreds of warrantless drone flights over people’s homes, violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and its guarantee of personal privacy.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to suspend the release of Mahmoud Khalil, re-detain him, and stay a lower court ruling that blocked his deportation, affirming that the government cannot pursue his removal based on the likely unconstitutional foreign policy charge.
A federal judge has issued an injunction halting the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status for over 60,000 immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua, allowing them to remain in the US while litigation continues.
The Trump administration plans to use Fort Dix, a U.S. Army post in New Jersey, to detain immigrants, which is unnecessary, costly, and dehumanizing, and the ACLU of New Jersey calls on Congress to speak out against this use of military bases as immigration detention centers.
The Trump administration was found in violation of the Family Separation Settlement Agreement by a federal court, after it abruptly terminated contracts providing legal and social services to separated families without securing any replacement contracts.
The ACLU has condemned the Trump administration’s plan to detain up to 3,000 immigrants at Fort Dix, a U.S. Army base in New Jersey, calling it a “disgraceful” and “reckless” move that sets a dangerous precedent for civil liberties in the United States.
The ACLU has won a court case against the NIH for unlawfully targeting research involving “disfavored” topics and populations, which was deemed to be “arbitrary, capricious, and void” and a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for violating the constitutional rights of immigrants detained at the newly constructed Everglades detention center in Ochopee, Florida, which is accused of inhumane conditions and lack of access to legal counsel.
A coalition of Head Start providers and parent advocacy groups have filed a motion to amend their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict access to the Head Start Program, which would exclude immigrant families from early childhood education.
Parent Voices Oakland and the ACLU are challenging the Trump administration’s reclassification of Head Start as a “federal public benefit” in court, arguing that it would deny immigrant families access to early education services and undermine the program’s mission.
A federal court has issued two temporary restraining orders prohibiting DHS and ICE from using racial profiling during stops and denying legal counsel to detained immigrants, following weeks of reports of aggressive and secretive raids across Southern California.
A federal court in New Hampshire has blocked the Trump administration’s controversial executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship and certified a nationwide class of families whose children would have been denied citizenship under the order.