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WEBHow Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care. The ACLU’s latest report outlines how interior immigration checkpoints and anti-immigrant state policing trap noncitizens trying to leave Texas... By Sarah Mehta, Blair Wallace.
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WEBACLU Reaction to Biden Administration’s Changes to Most Recent Asylum Ban. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced today that it will make it harder for people to exercise their right to seek asylum by further entrenching the restrictions in its... Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights.
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WEBSince our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
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WEBThe ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project fights in the courts, lobbies on Capitol Hill, and works with technology companies to ensure that civil liberties are protected as technology advances.
LGBTQ Rights - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBIn the last few years, states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywhere.
Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the ...
WEBAug 17, 2021 · The ACLU has taken action against unlawful voter purges and laws that enable them. In 2019, we stopped Texas’ flawed, discriminatory voter purge list that targeted naturalized citizens.
Four Myths About Trans Athletes, Debunked | ACLU
WEBApr 30, 2020 · FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports. MYTH: Trans athletes’ physiological characteristics provide an unfair advantage over cis athletes. Women and girls who are trans face discrimination and violence that makes it difficult to even stay in school.
Criminal Law Reform - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBThe Criminal Law Reform Project (CLRP) seeks to end criminal justice policies that fuel mass incarceration, over-criminalization, and racial injustice. By fighting for transformational change to policing, pretrial detention, public defense, and probation and parole, CLRP is working to reverse the tide of mass incarceration, advance ...
Human Rights - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBBut its embrace of the rights enshrined in the UDHR has been partial and selective. The ACLU Human Rights Program (HRP) is specifically dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to universal human rights principles and rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal ...
WEBJan 18, 2023 · New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.