Jonathan Blazer, dir. of border strategies at National ACLU, joins Norma Chávez-Peterson, ACLU-SDIC executive dir., for a discussion about the efforts of the ACLU-SDIC and our direct service partners in response to the mass street releases.
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Jan 7, 2021
Griffin-Jones v. City of San Diego
Status: Active
Police Seizure of Protesters’ Cell Phones
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Apr 25, 2020
Alvarez v. LaRose
Status: Active
As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading aggressively across the United States in Spring 2020, it hit jails, prisons, and detention centers with particular virulence. The Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC),...
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Apr 21, 2020
Rodriguez Alcantara v. Archambeault
Immigrants' Rights
Status: Active
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to the health and safety of people in congregate settings—places where large groups of people live, eat, and share common spaces in close proximity to one another...
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Nov 20, 2019
Guan et al. v. Wolf et al.
Border
Status: Active
The five journalists filed a federal lawsuit alleging that CBP’s questioning aimed at uncovering their sources of information and their observations as journalists was unconstitutional.
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Nov 5, 2019
Doe v. Wolf
Border
Status: Active
Pursuant to DHS’s former so-called Migrant Protection Protocols tens of thousands of asylum-seeking individuals and families were forced to wait in precarious conditions in Mexican border cities while their...