The ACLU of Northern California seeks volunteer field fellows for an opportunity to learn valuable organizing and advocacy skills, while being a community leader on immigrants' rights work.Read more »
Immigrants' Rights
The ACLU fights to make sure that the rights and liberties guaranteed by our constitution apply to all immigrants, regardless of immigration status. We challenge the serious civil rights violations faced by immigrant communities.
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Jobs
Events
April 19, 2014
Join us in Fresno for an important presentation and discussion about your U.S. embassy rights: What to do at U.S. embassy interviews and if your U.S. passport is revoked.Read more »
Case
Issues :
Approximately 34,000 immigrants are held in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s (ICE) facilities on a daily basis, with roughly 500 to 600 of these immigrants held in northern California detention facilities. These detainees are...Read more »
Events
March 30, 2014
Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed two pieces of key legislation for immigrants' rights. Get practical tips in Fresno about your rights and these new laws.Read more »
Action
Keep Luciano and his family together. Demand that DHS terminate his deportation proceedings.Read more »
News
February 22, 2014
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California released preliminary findings of an investigation into 2012 traffic citations issued by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in the Fresno area.Read more »
Blog
January 23, 2014
Hard to believe, but until recently, all detained immigrants appearing in the civil immigration court in San Francisco were forced to give critical testimony while restrained by shackles and chains at the wrists, waist, and ankles. The inhumane...Read more »
News
January 23, 2014
Today the ACLU of California and the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project applaud the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to halt its troubling practice of arresting individuals at Kern County courthouses.Read more »
News
January 23, 2014
An historic settlement was reached Thursday in a class action lawsuit between immigration authorities and immigrants bringing an end to the federal government’s practice of forcing detained immigrants to go through their civil immigration hearings...Read more »
Case
A class action settlement ending the blanket policy of shackling adult detainees in immigration court, regardless of their history or capacity for disruption.Read more »