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Las personas detenidas por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos que no tienen a un abogado pueden presentar una petición de habeas corpus para impugnar su detención.

Individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who do not have a lawyer may file a habeas petition to challenge their detention.

The federal government is working to increase detention space in the Bay Area to support Trump’s family separation agenda.

ACLU civil rights investigator Emilia Garcia has spent the past year speaking with people whose lives have been upended by the termination of TPS.

With democracy under attack, the balance of power in Congress up for grabs, and the Trump administration determined to make it harder to vote, the midterm election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential—and contentious—in recent history.

The Trump administration's mass deportation campaign is in service of an authoritarian and white supremacist vision. The ACLU is fighting back.

ACLU NorCal is calling on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reverse its decision banning Dorsey Nunn’s memoir, “What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly” from state prisons. Nunn, who spent a decade in San Quentin as a young adult, is a longtime community organizer and advocate for rehabilitation and reentry.

In times when language itself is under attack, art becomes both an archive and an act of resistance.

We're supporting an effort to ensure that all Californians, regardless of their financial status, have a transcript of their civil case proceedings — without which they have no real chance of mounting a successful appeal.