An ACLU study of migrant children arriving to the US during the Obama years reveals a disturbing pattern of abuse and neglect by US customs officials, including physical abuse in more than one in four cases.
In yet another sign of environmental retrenchment, the US environmental protection agency claims there is “no causal connection” between a 4-million-ton coal dump and the ill health suffered by the mostly Black citizens of the small community of Uniontown, Alabama.
As youths across the US demonstrate their determination to be a part of the civic conversation, civil rights groups like the ACLU are stepping in where schools have left gaps to educate students about their rights in a protest environment.
Upon learning that a seminal book explaining the racist underpinnings of America’s criminal justice system was banned from prisons, the ACLU took immediate action to get it reinstated.
On Saturday, the ACLU premiered their own entry at the Sundance Film Festival, a set of three animated shorts on mass incarceration.
The fruits of its labor via rage fundraising in 2017 give the national civil liberties organization the firepower it needs to help lead the resistance to Trumpism in 2018.
The ACLU reports that Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested the destruction of 11 types of records, going back 20 years. In combination with President Trump’s pardoning of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, this signals a criminal disregard for the welfare of immigrants.
For anyone who has been watching the obvious chaos in and around the White House and in Trump’s voting commission, the risks of the whole endeavor appear worse than you may have thought—and quite scary.
The recent arrest of Iraqi Christians and Kurds for deportation sparks outcry from those concerned about their persecution in their home countries. At issue is whether this is an issue for immigration courts or the federal court.
We should have known what we would see in this year’s Giving USA report, but it still surprised us. Now, nonprofits need to mobilize to answer this historic call!
