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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Legal Analysis: One of the Most Consequential U.S. Supreme Court Terms in Recent History
In one of the most consequential terms in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions that will reshape the law for years to come.
The Fight is Not Over: Clear the Path to Legal Status
The Supreme Court greenlit the Trump administration’s destruction of a critical humanitarian immigration program. We’re fighting back.
After This Supreme Court Term, We're Doubling Down on America's Founding Promise
The struggle between exclusion and equal protection defines American history — and this moment.
SCOTUS Gives Trump Administration Carte Blanche to Strip More Than a Million People of their Legal Status With No Oversight
Court greenlights Trump administration's termination of TPS for Syria and Haiti and eliminated most judicial review of TPS decision-making
Court Cases:
Mullin v. Dahlia Doe
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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