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Dallas Voters Must Learn About the District Attorney Before Election Day
By Richard Miles
Warehousing Immigrant Children in the Texas Desert
By Victoria Lopez, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project
Automated Translation Software is Confusing Some Texas Voters
By Matthew McCarthy, Edgar Saldivar
Trump Administration is Illegally Turning Away Asylum Seekers
When President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to send some 5,000 military troops to fortify the southern border, even his supporters were quick to dismiss this as a political stunt. A convoy of migrants, many of whom are families with young children fleeing violence, is not a threat to the United States.
By Edgar Saldivar, Shaw Drake
Businesses in Texas Can Help Get Out the Vote, Too. Here’s how.
Voting is a fundamental right guaranteed to all U.S. citizens, but not everyone chooses to exercise that right.
By Imelda Mejia, Edgar Saldivar
Texas Legislative Scorecards: See Where These Candidates Stand
We asked candidates running for State Representative in House Districts 115, 113, 104, and 47 about their positions on 13 key pieces of legislation affecting civil rights and civil liberties in our state. We then studied the results to determine which candidates were supportive of ACLU of Texas priorities. The scores below reflect how current state lawmakers voted during the 2017 legislative session. For challengers, the scores indicate how they would have voted, as indicated in their responses to our candidate questionnaire. Here are the bills we analyzed in each section. Click the header to find out more about each category:
By Brad Pritchett
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