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.

U.S. Border Patrol agents at southern Arizona checkpoints are routinely violating the constitutional rights of local residents, calling into question the legitimacy of these checkpoints and prompting the ACLU to demand a thorough review of the policies and practices governing checkpoint operations.

Representative Raul M. Grijalva of Arizona will hold an ad hoc hearing in the border community of Nogales, Ariz., tomorrow.

PHOENIX– As part of its effort to fight back in the courts against SB1070’s remaining “show me your papers” provision, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona today released a new mobile phone application that allows people to report abuses under the state’s notorious racial profiling.