Press Releases
about Immigrants' Rights
Sep 16, 2025
ACLU and ACLU of Tennessee Condemn President Trump’s Plan to Deploy National Guard into Memphis Communities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – In another effort to expand his power and stoke fear, President Trump issued a memorandum yesterday establishing a regressive policing task force made up of vari...
Sep 11, 2025
ACLU Statement on House Passage of H.R. 3486
Houses narrowly passes bill that would impose extreme prison sentences on asylum seekers, teenagers and immigrant families
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Sep 09, 2025
ACLU and Partners Urge Appeals Court to Find Trump’s Deployment of Military in Los Angeles Unlawful
LOS ANGELES — Free speech organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Newsom v. Trump, California’s lawsuit challenging Presi...
Court case: Newsom v. Trump
Sep 08, 2025
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Indiscriminate ICE Stops in Los Angeles
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today granted the federal government’s request to pause a court order that prohibited federal agencies from continuing their unlawful actions in ...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Sep 05, 2025
Federal Court Declares Noncitizen’s Detention Under Laken Riley Act Unconstitutional
Judge says mandatory detention violates due process and orders bond hearing for detained immigrant
BOSTON – In what appears to be the first decision to address mandatory detenti...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
Sep 03, 2025
ACLU of Colorado and ACLU Challenge New ICE Policy Mandating Detention of Immigrants Without Bond
DENVER — The ACLU of Colorado, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Meyer Law Office filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday challenging a recent Trump administration policy th...
Issue Areas:
Immigrants' Rights
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News & CommentaryOct 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Pregnant And Postpartum Women Face Neglect And Abuse In Ice Detention. Explore News & Commentary.Pregnant and Postpartum Women Face Neglect and Abuse in ICE Detention
ACLU letter documents miscarriages, denial of prenatal care, and inadequate food and medical attention for women held in immigration facilities, calling for immediate release and reforms. -
News & CommentaryOct 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Trump Is Weaponizing The Uscis For The First Time In The Agency’s History. Explore News & Commentary.Trump Is Weaponizing the USCIS for the First Time in the Agency’s History
USCIS oversees applications for legal immigration, like citizenship, legal permanent residency, work authorization, and more. Trump is now staffing the agency with armed law enforcement agents to make arrests. -
News & CommentaryOct 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Trump Is Abusing His Power To Build A Dangerous, National Policing Force. Explore News & Commentary.Trump is Abusing His Power to Build a Dangerous, National Policing Force
Trump is building out a paramilitary policing force unaccountable to the public. But states have tools to resist this dangerous abuse of power and protect communities from intimidation. -
News & CommentaryOct 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Women's Rights
Federal Judge Blocks Trump Effort To Bar Some Immigrant Families From Head Start. Explore News & Commentary.Federal Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar Some Immigrant Families From Head Start
The ruling halts a Trump administration directive that would have excluded certain immigrant children from Head Start, a program serving families who are eligible nationwide. The decision ensures immigrant families can continue to access early education, child care, and critical support services while the ACLU’s lawsuit moves forward.