Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to escalate its ruthless effort to expel immigrants, block refugees, and sow fear within the immigrant community. As our “At What Cost?” campaign highlights, all Americans will pay a high price because of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda and...
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Washington, DC — As legal observers have been highlighting, there’s a brewing constitutional crisis over the Trump administration seemingly ignoring a federal judge’s court order to pause deportation flights. The administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and subsequent actions are the latest reminder of how this...
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Washington, DC —In a chilling escalation, it appears the Trump administration has begun executing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority never before used in this manner. This ruthless move is both unlawful and a dangerous expansion of executive power. Early this morning, the ACLU...
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Washington, DC — On a virtual event held today (recording available here), leading legal experts and advocates gathered to assess the details and implications of several key immigration storylines, including the Mahmoud Khalil case and the chilling larger implications for weaponizing immigration law to quash free speech; the latest...
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Washington, DC —This week alone, by using new levers of state power and old, inapplicable statutes, the Trump administration has: Initiated deportation proceedings against a green card holder for protesting on a college campus – a clear attempt to weaponize immigration law to chill political dissent and free speech...
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SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH: THE LARGER, CHILLING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAHMOUD KHALIL CASE The Trump administration’s alarming arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. Notably, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by...
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Washington, DC – The arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – “immigration...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, leading Senate and House Democrats joined with the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice to issue a letter to President Trump, condemning the administration’s reliance on the “legally and factually unfounded” and dangerous “invasion” conspiracy theory as the justification to trample on “civil liberties...
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