Immigrant Rights

The Constitution guarantees basic rights and freedoms to all people in America, not just U.S. citizens. Advocating fair treatment for non-citizens has been an important part of the ACLU’s work since its founding in 1920, when it opposed the summary arrest and deportation of Eastern European immigrants during the Palmer Raids.

Court says government must do more to reunite refugee families

Resources

CBP-Spokane Federal Tort Claim (Elshieky)

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Attorneys for Immigrant Children

A nationwide class-action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of children who are challenging the federal government's failure to provide them with legal representation as it carries out deportation hearings against them.

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Immigrant Rights

Youth

State of Hawai'i v. Trump

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CBP-Spokane Federal Tort Claim (Sosa)

Claim on behalf of a man wrongly detained by CBP-Spokane

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Rikabi v. Gonzales

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Immigrant Rights

NWIRP v. Sessions

The government tried to bully Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to limit its service provision by requiring that they fully represent every immigrant they help.

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Free Speech

Immigrant Rights

Racial Justice

Sanchez Ochoa v. Campbell

ACLU-WA urges Ninth Circuit to uphold ruling that county jails have no business holding people for ICE

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Immigrant Rights

Doe et al. v. Trump

The ACLU-WA is representing refugees who have been separated from their families by Trump's Muslim Ban

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Rodriguez Macareno v. Thomas

We explain that police departments that engage in this type of immigration enforcement violate both the federal Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure and the Washington Constitution’s prohibition on warrantless arrests.

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Border Patrol & ICE

Immigrant Rights