Democracy on the Line
Inside the fight to protect every vote.
December 23, 2020
Our immigration detention system is complex and opaque by design. If you don't understand how it works, you're not alone.
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The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention
How They're Really Rigging Elections
Now is an excellent time to take a good hard look around at which politicians and elected leaders are undermining our democracy with word, deed, or silence - and remove them from positions of power and influence at the first available opportunity.
Virus spread in NM jails, prisons should have, could have, been avoided
For the past seven months, rarely has a day gone by that the ACLU hasn’t received a desperate call or email from someone who has a family member or loved one locked up in one of our state’s jails or prisons.
ICE cruelty: What will Americans do?
Just when we thought U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s record of abuse couldn’t get much worse, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia provided testimony showing the agency is capable of more cruelty than we knew.
Common Cause, ACLU launch statewide election integrity program
Common Cause New Mexico is teaming up with the ACLU of New Mexico to run a nonpartisan voter protection program this year to assist voters who encounter problems in voting, either by mail or in person.