Press Releases

Federal Judge Rules Dreamers Can Keep Licenses

PHOENIX – Arizona is permanently prohibited from withholding driver’s licenses and other state-issued identification from young immigrants who have been granted permission to live and work in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Arpaio, MCSO Must Stop Targeting Undocumented Workers

PHOENIX -- Federal Judge David Campbell today put a stop to the workplace raids that have torn apart countless families in Maricopa County.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Workers' Lawsuit Prompts Arpaio to Announce Halt to Last of Immigration Programs

PHOENIX--Last night, Sheriff Arpaio’s lawyer filed papers in the case Puente v. Arpaio announcing his plan to terminate the criminal employment squad that has, for the past six years, conducted workplace raids on local businesses and arrested workers under felony identity theft charges.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU Obtains Judgement Against SHeriff Babeu, Pinal County Based on Officers' Use of SB 1070 "Show Me Your Papers" Law

PHOENIX – The American Civil Liberties Union obtained a judgment Wednesday against Pinal County, Sheriff Paul Babeu and two Pinal County sheriff’s deputies on behalf of an Arizona woman who spent five days in the custody of immigration authorities.

DREAMers Can Apply for Licenses Beginning Dec. 22, 2014

Preliminary Injunction in ADAC v. Brewer can be found here.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Arizona to Deny Driver's Licenses to Immigrant Youth

Washington, D.C. – Immigrant youth will be allowed to receive driver’s licenses in Arizona while the Supreme Court considers whether or not to hear an appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling in Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Prosecutors Will Not Enforce Arizona Anti-Nudity Law Pending Legislative Session, Lawsuit on Hold

PHOENIX – A federal district court today entered an order staying enforcement of a recently-passed law that restricts the sale or display of nude images, pending the Arizona Legislature's possible reconsideration of the law.
Issue Areas: Free Speech

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Arizona's Request to Rehear Driver's License Case

SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a request to reconsider its earlier ruling that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s denial of driver’s licenses to certain young immigrants is unconstitutional.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Residents of Arivaca, Ariz., Sue Border Patrol Over Right to Protest Checkpoint Operations

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.
Issue Areas: Border Rights