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The DREAM's Alive and Well in Florida
Today's signing of a Florida law allowing young undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents to pay the same tuition rate as every other Florida resident represents a truly remarkable achievement. It will change the lives of young immigrants like Carlos, who is twenty years old, undocumented, and comes from a family of agricultural workers.
By By Maria Rodriguez, Executive Director, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Finally, a movie that makes abortion funny
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By By Louise Melling, Director, Center of Liberty; Deputy Legal Director, ACLU
Communities of Color Remain Underwater While the Tide Rises
The housing price tide may be rising, but it's failing to lift up many in our communities of color.
By By Rachel Goodman, Staff Attorney, ACLU Racial Justice Program
On the Agenda: June 9-13
Whether you spent your weekend watching the Tony Awards, the Belmont Stakes, or the NBA finals, the important thing to keep in mind is that even though the weekend is over there is still plenty of excitement to be had in the days ahead.
By By Rachel Nusbaum, Media Strategist, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Getting Off the Deportation Train, One State at a Time
While the Obama administration's immigration enforcement machine hurtles forward like a runaway train, law enforcement officials in progressive states have been jumping off en masse. Getting mixed up with federal immigration enforcement hasn't gotten locals anywhere but into trouble with immigrant communities fearful of deportation if they cooperate with police, local officials protective of their budgets, and most recently with the courts. Now, a red state has joined the growing rebellion against local-federal entanglements and it's a surprising one: Kansas.
By By Domenic Powell, Advocacy & Policy Strategist, ACLU
Dee's Triumph: One of the Most Important Trans Victories You Never Heard Of
On August 21, 1989, Dee Farmer, a black, transgender woman, sued prison officials for the "mental anguish, psychological damage, humil[i]ation, swollen face, cuts and bruises to her mouth and lips and a cut on her back, as well as some bleeding" that resulted from being raped in her prison cell in the general population of a maximum security federal prison.
By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Secrecy is a Cancer on Our Democracy
In our 2011 ACLU report on secrecy "Drastic Measures Required," my co-author Mike German and I wrote that "American democracy has a disease, and it's called secrecy." Government secrecy, we wrote, "is growing like a cancer in our democracy."
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
"Guantánamo North" – NDAA Indefinite Detention Coming Soon to a Town Near You?
Top senators thought you wouldn't notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in the annual defense policy bill, and then waited 11 days to quietly file the bill.
By By Chris Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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