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For decades, local, state and federal public officials from both political parties and powerful interest groups engineered the system of mass incarceration. They did this in part by constructing a narrative of fear fueled by racism through which they passed laws, spent billions of dollars, and separated millions of families. It was a disaster of epic proportions that unfolded in slow motion and for which we are still paying the price today as a nation.
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By aclutn
Jan 28, 2017
ACLU Vence Las Políticas Discriminatorias de Trump En Su Primera Semana Como Presidente
Hoy es un día extraordinario. Cuando Donald Trump fue electo presidente, prometimos que si él trataba de implementar políticas inconstitucionales y anti-americanas, lo llevaríamos a los tribunales. Hoy, lo hicimos. Y ganamos.
Ayer, el Presidente Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que suspendía indefinidamente l
By aclutn
Jan 28, 2017
In President Trump’s First Week, ACLU Hands Him First Stinging Rebuke
This is a remarkable day. When Donald Trump was elected president, we promised that if he tried to implement his unconstitutional and un-American policies that we would take him to court. We did that today. And we won.
Yesterday President Trump signed an executive order that sus
By aclutn
Jan 28, 2017
We’ll See You in Court: Why Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Violates the Establishment Clause
This piece originally appeared at Just Security.
According to the Supreme Cou
By aclutn
Jan 28, 2017
ACLU and Other Groups Challenge Trump Immigration Ban After Refugees Detained at Airports Following Executive Order
BREAKING NEWS: Hameed Khalid Darweesh, according to Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), has been released.
The ACLU, along with several groups, filed a
By aclutn
Jan 28, 2017
Trump Begins His Unconstitutional Program of Anti-Muslim Discrimination
In 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish refugees, were turned away from the port of Miami and sent back to Europe. Of those passengers, 254 were murdered in the Holocaust. The U.S. government turned away those refugees, so heartbreakingly close to safety—and also restricted Jewish immigration and instituted new vetting procedures—because of rampant overblown fears that the Nazis might smuggle spies and saboteurs in among the Jewish refugees.
Yesterday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, The White House put out a statement th
By aclutn
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