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The Trump administration asked the U. S. Supreme Court to stay a federal district court's order preserving Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants. If SCOTUS grants a stay, Venezuelans who registered for TPS in 2023 would immediately face the prospect of deportation while the case proceeds.   Read More

In a major victory for civil rights, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring U.S. Border Patrol from using practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution. The ruling applies to future immigration enforcement operations in the Eastern District of California, which stretches inland from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. Read More

California is home to more immigrants than any other state in the country. To limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities during the first Trump administration, the legislature passed the California Values Act (SB 54) which prohibits sheriffs and police departments from using resources to aid immigration enforcement, with some exceptions. Read More

When Donald Trump was sworn in as president, he lost no time launching Project 2025­—a right-wing policy agenda rooted in white supremacy that he had claimed to know nothing about. The ACLU stands ready—as we have for more than a century—to defend our vision of an inclusive democracy based on fundamental principles of equality. Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump administration's request for a stay of a district court order preventing the government from ending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans while the case proceeds. Read More

A federal court today blocked the federal government’s attempt to strip Venezuelans of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) while the case moves forward. Read More

In the first hearing in NTPSA v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to terminate humanitarian protections for more than one million Haitian and Venezuelan TPS holders, plaintiffs asked the court to put on hold DHS Secretary Noem's plan to revoke work authorization and legal status in early April for 350,000 Venezuelans while the case proceeds. Read More

Do NOT open your door. ICE can’t come into your home unless they have a signed search warrant or you let them in. If officers are at your door, ask them to pass the warrant under the door before you open it. An arrest warrant (or an administrative warrant of removal) is not enough to come inside you home. If ICE officers want to enter your home, they must have a valid judicial search warrant that ... Read More

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