DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement
By Naureen Shah In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke…
ACLU Sues ICE Contractor, Calls for Investigation of Abuse of Women Immigrants
Women were shackled, forced to ride in a boiling, windowless van for hours (From Press Release) –…
Kirstjen Nielsen Implemented Trump’s Most Brutal Policies – Now She’s Gone
By Brian Tashman Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secretary of…
Yuba County Jail Hunger Strike by ICE Detainees for Humane Treatment Ends
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau MARYSVILLE, CA – Hunger strikes in the suffrage, civil rights, farmworker…
Immigrant Groups Criticize Yuba County Jail Discipline of ICE Hunger Strikers
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau MARYSVILLE, CA – Jails are dreary places, but the Yuba County…
Accelerating the Militarization of the Southwest Border
By Cynthia Pompa For decades, the ACLU has fought back against the militarization of domestic law enforcement…
A School-to-Deportation Pipeline?
By Lance Tran Schools should be safe learning environments, not arenas for immigration crackdowns. Yet many of…
Exclusive Vanguard Story About ICE Grabbing Immigrant from Courtroom Helped Spur Legislation to Protect Courts from ICE
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A story about ICE pulling someone out of a…
Sunday Commentary: Experts Warn that ICE Arrest in Sac Courtroom Will Have Chilling Effect across the State
This week the Vanguard broke the news that ICE Agents entered Sacramento Superior Court last week, handcuffed…
Protecting Immigrant Privacy with SB 54, the California Values Act
By Vasudha Talla Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and its sister agencies, have long targeted immigrants and…
ICE Agents Surprise Lawyers in Sacramento Court when They Grab Man inside Courtroom
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In an exclusive tip to the Davis Vanguard, lawyers…
ICE Must Reconsider Asylum Seekers’ Humanitarian Parole Applications
By Kristin Greer Love Last month, a federal judge blocked the government from arbitrarily locking up asylum…
The Emerging Abolish ICE Movement
The movement to abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been growing for months, but it has…
Occupy ICE Encampment, Hunger Strike Spring Up at Sacramento ICE HQ After Thousands of Children Separated from Parents, Put in Cages
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Some laws may be made to be broken –…
ICE put me in a hot van with no windows or water. I thought I would die.
By Floricel Liborio Ramos Sitting chained up in the back of a hot van last summer, I…
Judge Blocks Blanket Detention of Asylum Seekers
By Stephen Kang On July 2, the ACLU won a significant victory in our challenge to the…
Court Rules Against Trump Administration’s Attack on California Sanctuary Cities
(From Press Release) – A federal court this week upheld the California Values Act, which ensures that…
How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair
By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and…
AG Becerra: Forcibly Separating Children from Their Parents Is Inhumane and Unnecessary
(From Press Release) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined New Mexico Attorney General Hector H….
One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus
By Mitra Ebadolahi On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire…
