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Coalition Letter to Senators Urging Support of the Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act (09/26/2008)
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to support S. 3594, the Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act, sponsored by Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Kennedy (DMA). We represent a broad group of religious, labor, immigration, asylum/refugee, civil liberties and community groups from across the country.

Immigration Raids: Postville and Beyond (07/31/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) commends the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law for conducting a hearing on July 24, 2008 regarding the Postville, Iowa immigration raid and criminal prosecutions. Many important facts and questions emerged from the oral and written testimony at the hearing. However, many disturbing aspects of this raid have not been fully addressed and many inconsistencies and critical questions remain unanswered.

English and Integration Act Sign-On Letter (07/30/2008)

ACLU Statement for House Homeland Security Committee (07/17/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") commends the House Committee on Homeland Security for conducting a hearing on the challenges faced by the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") in aligning programs, personnel, and resources to achieve border security. The ACLU urges the Committee to exercise rigorous oversight of DHS’s inspection, detention, and deportation practices at the international borders and ports of entry. This written statement addresses a range of problematic DHS practices in immigration interrogation, detention, and removal, as well as DHS’s collection of personal data on millions of U.S. citizens, its use and misuse of that data, and its attempts to build an ever-expanding surveillance infrastructure. Collectively, these practices illustrate how DHS has mismanaged and abused its authority, wasted valuable human resources, and pursued practices that are terrifying immigrant communities around the country.

ACLU testimony before House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees at a hearing regarding immigrant detainee medical care (06/04/2008)

ACLU Written Statement Submitted to the Senate Finance Committee (05/08/2008)

Written Statement of Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, Submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee on Social Security Claim Delays for Disability (04/23/2008)

ACLU Statement for Senate Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing on Department of Homeland Security (04/02/2008)

ACLU Backgrounder on English Only Policies in Congress (12/10/2007)
In 2006 the Senate took up an amendment to make English the national language in connection with the Comprehensive Immigration Reform (“CIR”) Act. The amendment, offered by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), passed the Senate by a vote of 62 to 35. This amendment was substantially diluted by the subsequent passage of an alternative amendment by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) which declared English as the “common and unifying language of the United States.” Both amendments, largely symbolic in nature, died when the Senate failed to pass CIR. Similar amendments were introduced and passed in the 2007 version of the CIR, which also failed to become law. Nonetheless, the fact that nearly two-thirds of the Senate voted to make English the national language illustrates the intense, and unfortunately misguided, fervor surrounding the English-only debate.

Testimony of Francisco Castaneda for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of June Everett for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Edwidge Danticat for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Tom Jawetz for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Dr. Allen Keller for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

ACLU Material Support Statement for the Record for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (09/20/2007)

ACLU Letter Opposing McConnell Voter ID Amendment to Immigration Bill (06/04/2007)
The ACLU urges senators to vote against Mitch McConnell's amendment to the Senate immigration bill that would require voters to produce a government-issued ID to vote in federal elections.

Congressman Pitts (R-PA) Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (06/01/2007)
Congressman Pitts (R-PA) Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Liberty & Justice For All Coalition's Statement on Restoring Due Process to Immigrants (05/25/2007)
The undersigned groups are committed to ensuring that the immigration system be reformed to ensure respect for fundamental due process rights. Ensuring due process in the overall system is essential to making comprehensive reform workable, effective and fair.

Letter Opposing Senator Mitch McConnell's Photo ID for Voting Amendment to the Immigration Bill (05/25/2007)
Dear Senator: Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has proposed Amendment No. 1170 to S. 1348, which may be voted on by the full Senate after recess. On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and its hundreds of thousands of members, activists, and fifty-three affiliates nationwide, we write to urge you to oppose this amendment. Amendment 1170 would require voters to present a government-issued photo ID in order to vote in federal elections. This requirement imposes an unnecessary and undue burden on the exercise of the fundamental right to vote for millions of Americans who are eligible, registered, and qualified to vote.

ACLU Letter to the House of Representatives Urging Opposition to H.R. 6094 and H.R. 6095 (09/21/2006)