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I always wanted to be a police officer. Helping people has been my main goal in life, and it’s why I wanted to become an officer. I was never prouder than the day I graduated from the police academy. I’ve worked as a patrol officer for the Frankfort Police Department in Illinois for 14 years, and the departme

As President Trump spends his time denigrating black NFL players and their allies who are protesting police brutality, racial inequity, and a broken criminal justice system, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is working hard to make these problems even worse. Earlier this month, Sessions ended a

As President Trump spends his time denigrating black NFL players and their allies who are protesting police brutality, racial inequity, and a broken criminal justice system, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is working hard to make these problems even worse. Earlier this month, Sessions ended a

Lazaro Rodriguez was forced to represent himself at his criminal trial in Miami, another victim of the kind of assembly line justice that has ruined too many lives. The 

At a time when undocumented young people were afraid to tell their stories, Jessica Colotl spoke out. She became the face that showed the need for a solution for young immigrants who came to the United States as children. Jessica applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival

Do you have any idea how your local police department works? Do they have policies or practices that might affect how they interact with you or your family or the people you care about? It may be harder than you think to find out. Over the past two years, t

Three days after Donald Trump was elected, we at the ACLU told him, in a full-page letter in The New York Times that if he pursued his campaign promises to invade constitutional rights, “you will have to contend with the full firepower of the ACLU at your every step.”  We filed the first case challenging his Muslim ban, just one week into his presidency — and obtained the first injunction against that unconstitutional ban.  And we haven’t stopped suing Trump since – over voting rights, immigrants’ rights, religious freedom, and transgender rights.  Now we’ll be seeing him in the Supreme Court. In all five of our cases this term, Donald Trump is on the opposite side. And in three of them, his administration has broken from decades of precedent. Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project is the Trump administration’s

In July 2017, a 31-year old asylum seeker, Teresa,* was arrested and placed in immigration detention. She was four months pregnant. After her arrest, she began to experience severe pain and bleeding. Despite the emergency nature of her medical needs, she reports that her pleas for assistance were ignored. Instead, she was transferred from a Border Patrol holding facility to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in southern California. She miscarried there. Despite these tragic circumstances and repeated requests for her release, ICE has

“I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,” says Maleeha Ahmad, one of the protesters who was pepper-sprayed by police officers in St. Louis last week. Ms. Ahmad has joined a