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3 Feb

Today President Biden signed executive orders that initiate a review process for certain Trump-era anti-immigrant policies, and create a task force focused on reuniting families.

1⃣ Rebuilding asylum: The Biden administration has taken some steps to begin the process of rebuilding our asylum system.

But the lack of concrete action to rescind and unwind more unlawful and inhumane policies that this administration inherited — and now owns — is concerning.

2⃣ Remain in Mexico: It’s positive that the Biden administration doesn’t want to defend this policy before SCOTUS and that it won’t subject any more people to the program.

Biden still needs to make the suspension permanent and help the people who remain stranded in Mexico.

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28 Jan

In 2020, people around the country took to the streets to demand an end to racism in the criminal legal system and in our country more broadly.

We won’t be able to achieve this goal until we end for-profit bail.

People end up owing thousands of dollars to the bail bond company — even if charges are later dropped or they are found not guilty.

This system is designed to be exploitative and predatory.

Far too many people are forced to choose between paying an exorbitant cash bail or sitting in jail.

Bail bond companies hold people’s freedom hostage.

People turn to bail bond companies to help buy their freedom.

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@ACLU

28 Jan

BREAKING: We're joining the fight to restore abortion access to people in Guam.

Today we filed a lawsuit challenging two laws that are blocking abortion care on the island.

The last 400 years of Guam's history have been marked by colonization by Spain, Japan, and the United States.

Guam is currently an unincorporated, organized territory of the United States, and Guamanians are US citizens.

Led by Chamorro women, the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, Guamanians have long fought to ensure access to safe and legal abortion on the island.

But two outdated, medically unnecessary laws are currently blocking access to abortion in Guam.

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27 Jan

Today's executive order to no longer renew DOJ contracts with private prison companies validates something we've been saying for years: No one should profit from the human misery that is caused by mass incarceration.

Prison privatization increases the potential for mistreatment and abuse of incarcerated people.

Today's order is an important move in curtailing this insidious practice.

It does not, however, limit the role of other profiteers, such as for-profit prison health care companies.

And it does not end the relationship between private prison companies and DHS, including in the immigrant detention system.

There is much more work to be done.

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@ACLU

20 Jan

It's our birthday! We were founded on this day 101 years ago.

Here's a bit of what we've been up to over the last century.

🗓️1920s: Scopes v. Tennessee

In our first major case, we represented John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching evolution.

Scopes was found guilty, but the verdict was reversed by the state Supreme Court.

Laws prohibiting teaching evolution were then defeated in many states.

🗓️1930s: Powell v. Alabama

We represented nine Black children who were accused, with only testimonial evidence, of raping two white women and sentenced to death for it.

SCOTUS sided in the kids' favor, affirming a critical right to counsel for defendants in death penalty cases.

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@ACLU

16 Jan

Last night marked the end of a cruel, inhumane, and lawless execution spree.

The federal government executed 13 individuals in mere months, often in the middle of the night, over the objections of lower courts.

The government killed two Black men for crimes they committed as teenagers.

They killed a woman who was a victim of sexual abuse and torture.

They killed two Black men who never killed anyone, and a man with a severe intellectual disability.

The Supreme Court paved the way for many of these executions to go forward despite lower court findings that they were unconstitutional or barred by federal law.

These executions didn't give anyone "justice." They merely perpetuated a cycle of pain and trauma.

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