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By a unanimous vote, the Coachella Valley School Board has adopted a policy to protect immigrant students and their families, as urged by the ACLU of California and Building Healthy Communities of Coachella Valley.   

President Trump issued a third version of his Muslim travel ban, which the ACLU is challenging at the U.S. Supreme Court with partner organizations.

ACLU Comment on the Trump administration considering new travel ban restrictions to ban Muslims from the United States.

The ACLU of Northern CA's grant program for student groups to bring speakers to UC Berkeley to advance equal justice this school year.

The ACLU of Northern California is not currently representing the Berkeley Patriot in any way, contrary to Pranav Jandhyala’s statement on KQED’s The California Report.

On Monday, the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) Board of Education unanimously approved a campus sanctuary policy.

CA Assembly and CA Senate have approved the California Values Act, SB 54. The legislation prohibits immigration enforcement overreach by the federal government and is headed to the governor for his signature.

Today, Attorney General Sessions announced his intent to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, callously reneging on the government’s commitment to hundreds of thousands of American youth. 

The Trump administration settled with plaintiffs in the first legal challenge to the executive order, which barred travelers from certain majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

The ACLU today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banning transgender service members from continuing to serve in the military or receiving medically necessary health care, and banning men and women who are transgender from enlisting.

It defies logic to arm local police with weapons of war — grenade launchers, high-caliber assault weapons, etc. — but that’s what the federal government has just decided to allow.

President Trump has pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for deliberately violating a federal court order that prohibited illegal detentions based only on suspicions about immigration status.