Immigrant Rights

The Constitution guarantees basic rights and freedoms to all people in America, not just U.S. citizens. Advocating fair treatment for non-citizens has been an important part of the ACLU’s work since its founding in 1920, when it opposed the summary arrest and deportation of Eastern European immigrants during the Palmer Raids.

Court says government must do more to reunite refugee families

Resources

Kustura, et al. v. Department of Labor and Industries

The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case in which three Bosnian immigrants claimed that they could not understand testimony and attorney discussions at their hearings over compensation for job injuries because they were denied a translator

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Immigrant Rights

Castenada v. Asher

A class action seeking release for all medically-vulnerable people at the Northwest Detention Center.

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Healthcare Access

Immigrant Rights

Ballot Title Challenge to Initiative 966

A Thurston County Superior Court judge ordered the removal of misleading and inaccurate language in the ballot title for Initiative 966, a measure seeking to restrict how individuals may prove eligibility for state and local public benefits.

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Immigrant Rights

Rivera v. Holder

Class action suit to clarify that immigration judges can release individuals on conditional parole

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Immigrant Rights

Habeeb v. Castloo

The U.S. government apologized and provided compensation to Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, an Iraqi refugee whom federal agents unlawfully stopped, interrogated, arrested, imprisoned, and sought to deport.

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Terrorism/Emergency Powers