Immigrants’ Rights
California is home to more immigrants than any other state in the country. The ACLU of Northern California works to defend immigrants’ constitutional rights, end immigration detention, and stop state and local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Clears Way to Reestablish TPS Protections for Hundreds of Thousands of Venezuelans
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, Venezuelans’ TPS will be reinstated on November 6 while the lawsuit proceeds
Court Cases:
National TPS Alliance v. Noem
ACLU NorCal Remembers Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta will forever be remembered for her resilience and ability to speak truth to power.
Recursos de la ACLU del Norte de California
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MAKE the CASE: How White Supremacy is Driving Trump’s Immigration Policy
What happens when the government considers America a country club for which they control membership and not a democracy that is supposed to welcome all? Join Emi MacLean, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, in a discussion about the repercussions of a recent Supreme Court ruling and the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform.
Each episode of MAKE the CASE takes you behind the scenes of a consequential case or issue making headlines, unpacking what’s at stake, why the ACLU gets involved, and whose rights could be affected.
Listen to MAKE the CASE on our website and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Cases, Campaigns & Legislation
Mar 2024
The Campaign to End California’s Prison to Deportation Pipeline
Learn about the campaign to stop the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from funneling people into the federal deportation machine.
Dec 2025
The California Immigration Detention Database
The California Immigration Detention Database tracks formal complaints, also known as grievances, that people detained in California’s immigration detention facilities have filed to seek redress against the inhumane conditions of their confinement. Through the interactive chart below, this database aims to document patterns of abuse that people in detention have raised to detention facility staff and to act as a spotlight on staff responses to their grievances (or lack thereof). It is a resource for people in detention, their families, advocates, organizations, and anyone else who is interested in documenting the ongoing harms of immigration detention. For more information, read our report, Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigrant Detention.
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