TUCSON—The ACLU of Arizona has released a report detailing widespread acts of abuse and impunity in U.S. Border Patrol’s interior checkpoint and “roving patrol” operations, most of which occur far from the border.

Los Angeles, CA – Hundreds of immigrants with mental disabilities who were ordered deported after being forced to represent themselves in court may be able to return to the U.S. under terms of a settlement approved today in a landmark class action lawsuit.

TUCSON — Tucson Sector Border Patrol holds men, women, and children in freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for extended periods of time in violation of the U.S. Constitution, a group of legal organizations allege in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday.

TUCSON—Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, will be presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Raner Collins in the ACLU's case Rodriguez v. Swartz on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz.

TUCSON -- The ACLU of Arizona today filed notices of two claims (available here)with the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of an Arizona woman seeking monetary damages for egregious and repeated rights violations by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

PHOENIX—American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Arizona and San Diego, along with the law firm Cooley LLP, filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

TUCSON, Ariz.—Two southern Arizona residents filed a federal lawsuit today challenging U.S. Border Patrol’s obstruction of their efforts to monitor an interior checkpoint near the town of Arivaca.

TUCSON – Araceli Rodriguez, the mother of slain Mexican teen Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, filed a federal lawsuit today in Arizona to pursue justice for her son, who was killed nearly two years ago by U.S. Border Patrol agents, identified only as John Does in the lawsuit.

TUCSON—The ACLU of Arizona and two University of Arizona law professors filed a public information lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records relating to U.S. Border Patrol’s interior enforcement operations in southern Arizona.