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HOUSTON — New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in Texas as well as California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, and Washington state.
HOUSTON — A multiracial, intergenerational coalition of advocates today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a Texas appellate court to end a Houston-area school district’s years-long practice of discriminating against Black students wearing racially and culturally significant hairstyles. The br
AUSTIN, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU, and the Texas Civil Rights Project, along with criminal defense attorney Alison Grinter and civil rights attorney Kim T. Cole, filed a brief today on behalf of Crystal Mason in the case of Mason v. State. The brief argue
SAN ANTONIO — A federal district court ruled Friday, in a victory for voting rights, that a key provision of Texas’ anti-voter law Senate Bill 1 violates federal law. Specifically, the court ruled that the provision, which criminalizes compensated mail-ballot assistance, violates Section 208 of the
SAN ANTONIO - A federal court ruled against a key provision of Texas’ anti-voter law Senate Bill 1 in a victory for voting rights in the state.
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, Trapped in Texas: How Federal — and Now State — Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas’ Abortion Ban, that outlines how federal and state immigration enforcement puts some Texans at risk of deportation