News & Commentary
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
How Surveillance is Changing Journalism and the Law
If I can't report a story without keeping a source safe, I'm not going to report a story.
By By Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow, Human Rights Watch & ACLU
Prisoners Tortured by the CIA Find Justice (In Europe)
A court handed down a huge victory yesterday, for two men who were rendered to a secret prison in Poland and tortured by the CIA. But it wasn't in an American court. And it wasn't the United States that was held to account.
By By Marcellene Hearn, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
Afraid, Lawyerless, and Warehoused: The Mothers of Artesia
The road to Artesia from Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a scenic three-hour drive past pristine white sand dunes, through chilly, foggy mountain ranges, and across flat, open pampas spotted with yucca plants. Artesia, itself, is a dusty town of around 11,000 people, mostly farmers, ranchers, and workers at local oil wells and refineries.
I traveled that road myself this week, on my way to the new Family Residential Center in Artesia run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This facility currently houses around 620 women and children from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It’s the first step in the federal government’s ill-advised plans to dramatically expand the warehousing of vulnerable children and their parents in facilities throughout the country, at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars.
By By Vicki B. Gaubeca, ACLU of New Mexico
Guantanamo's New Purgatory
This piece originally appeared at Defense One.
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By By Zak Newman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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