immigration discrimination

Report From Alabama: Ferrying Panicked Families, and Fighting Racial Profiling at Schools

I'm in Alabama reporting on the panic that has engulfed this state's communities following the enactment of H.B. 56, the most draconian anti-immigrant law in the nation. Afraid to drive, parents are pulling their children out of school, and have st...

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ACLU Lens: Alabama in Chaos as Residents Flee After Immigration Law Takes Effect

Alabama has been in a state of utter chaos following a federal judge’s Sept. 28 ruling upholding some of the worst provisions of H.B. 56, the state’s draconian anti-immigrant law. The ACLU and ACLU of Alabama, along with a coalition of civ...

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Separating Immigration Policy and National Security, Not American Families

As we remember the victims and heroes of 9/11, we're reminded that people of all colors and creeds died on that horrific day, including more than 100 undocumented immigrants. We also remember the courage of survivors, emergency responders, family ...

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ACLU Lens: Leaked Secure Communities Task Force Report Shows Program’s Many Flaws

A task force report released today on the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities reveals the program's many problems — namely that it has led to the deportation of thousands of immigrants with no criminal records and undermines c...

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DHS Told Loud and Clear: Stop Tearing Immigrant Families Apart

Last night in Arlington, Virginia, a community spoke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by bearing witness to fear and hardship sown by the immigration enforcement program misleadingly called Secure Communities. Hundreds of people were tu...

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DHS Told Loud and Clear: Stop Tearing Immigrant Families Apart

Last night in Arlington, Virginia, a community spoke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by bearing witness to fear and hardship sown by the immigration enforcement program misleadingly called Secure Communities. Hundreds of people were tu...

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DHS Told Loud and Clear: Stop Tearing Immigrant Families Apart

Last night in Arlington, Virginia, a community spoke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by bearing witness to fear and hardship sown by the immigration enforcement program misleadingly called Secure Communities. Hundreds of people were tu...

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DHS Told Loud and Clear: Stop Tearing Immigrant Families Apart

Last night in Arlington, Virginia, a community spoke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by bearing witness to fear and hardship sown by the immigration enforcement program misleadingly called Secure Communities. Hundreds of people were tu...

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DHS Told Loud and Clear: Stop Tearing Immigrant Families Apart

Last night in Arlington, Virginia, a community spoke to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by bearing witness to fear and hardship sown by the immigration enforcement program misleadingly called Secure Communities. Hundreds of people were tu...

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ACLU and DOJ Argue Alabama Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional

The ACLU was in a packed federal district court in Birmingham Wednesday arguing, with the U.S. Department of Justice and the bishops of the Episcopal, Catholic and Methodist churches, that Alabama's new anti-immigrant law, House Bill 56, should b...

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