Press Releases

ACLU Statement on Gov. Ducey’s Call for Halt of Refugee Resettlement in Arizona

PHOENIX—The ACLU of Arizona strongly opposes Gov. Doug Ducey’s call for “an immediate halt in the placement of any new refugees in Arizona.”
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Immigrants with Mental Disabilities May Reopen Deportation Cases

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.

Immigrants Held for Days in Freezing, Unsanitary Cells File 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.

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