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Their Lives Depend on It: Every Unaccompanied Child Needs a Lawyer
At first glance, the kids I met at the Ft. Sill military base in Lawton, Oklahoma, seemed like ordinary teenagers. They wore friendship bracelets they'd made in arts and crafts. Boys had baseball caps and girls had brightly colored nail polish with tiny flowers painted on them. But, one by one, they started to share their stories, and it became clear that their lives are anything but ordinary.
By By Layla Razavi, Regional Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU
New Technology Renews Old Fears of Manipulation and Control
In the first half of the 20th century, Americans gained a new awareness of the malleability and manipulability of the human mind, and the result was a wave of concern over “propaganda” and other techniques of influence. Today we may be seeing a new wave of similar fears as we begin to wonder whether the ways we use and rely upon technology today are making us susceptible to new, dangerous forms of manipulation.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
What Crack Cocaine Teaches Us About NSA Reform
This piece originally ran at POLITICO Magazine.
By By Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Sandra Fulton, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Safer Communities and Fewer People Behind Bars
Before he started singing with muppets, John Oliver showed us a lot of boxes of Cheerios. This was in the second minute of his epic rant on the state of the U.S. criminal justice system last week.
By By Sarah Solon, Communications Strategist, ACLU
How to Save $24 Billion and Fix Our Broken Justice System
Here's a hypothetical for you: Someone approaches you on the street and offers you a big stack of cash with no strings attached. Do you take it?
By By Meghan Groob, Media Strategist, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
The Senate Jumps into the Race to Rein in NSA Surveillance
The race is on.
By By Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
An Evening Stroll, a Volley of Fire: A Senseless Death in Mexico
On the night of October 10, 2012, U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez. At the time of the shooting, Jose Antonio was unarmed and walking peacefully down a major street in Nogales, Mexico, directly across from the metal border fence separating the United States and Mexico. An autopsy report revealed that Jose Antonio had been struck by 10 bullets, virtually all of which entered his body from behind.
By By Mitra Ebadolahi, Border Litigation Staff Attorney, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties & James Lyall, Border Litigation Staff Attorney, ACLU of Arizona
Death and Abuse at the Southwest Border
As Congress debates how to respond to children's migration from Central America, we must not forget that Customs and Border Protection is in dire need of improved oversight and accountability. Here are three examples of how the system is failing and what the ACLU is doing to help:
By By Lia G. Melikian, ACLU
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