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A New Phase in Civil Liberties Advocacy: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
For decades, the ACLU of New Mexico has worked alongside communities to defend civil liberties and expand the promise of the constitution. Today, with fundamental freedoms under intensifying attack and the stakes for our democracy higher than ever, that work has never been more urgent.
Dec 28, 2020
A New Day
We will hold a Biden administration accountable just like we have held accountable every other presidential administration going back 100 years.
By Peter Simonson
Dec 04, 2020
The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention
Our immigration detention system is complex and opaque by design. If you don't understand how it works, you're not alone.
By Hanna Johnson
Oct 09, 2020
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.
By Nadia Cabrera-Mazzeo, Zoila Y. Alvarez-Hernández
Jan 07, 2020
Fighting the Immigration Detention Machine
After security forces viciously beat him and threw him in jail for expressing opinions critical of the government, Raul Villegran* fled his native Cuba and made a harrowing journey through Central America and Mexico to seek asylum in the United States in early spring 2019.
By Micah McCoy
Oct 15, 2019
Crossing the Line
The dark handheld camera footage shows a large group of people, mostly families clutching small children, blinded by the flashlights trained on their faces. Heavily armed men wearing fake law enforcement badges, ski masks, and camouflage uniforms bark orders to the frightened families.
By Micah McCoy
Jun 17, 2019
Anti-Immigrant Extremists Show Disdain for Law, Community
The past few months have been a testament to the dangerous levels of anti-immigrant sentiment the current administration has inflamed within certain segments of our society.
By Nia Rucker
May 29, 2019
Making History, A High Water Mark Legislative Session for Freedom and Justice in New Mexico
One of the axiomatic truths of the legislative session is that it’s really hard to pass a good law. Believe us, we know. The ACLU of New Mexico has worked tirelessly year after year to advance legislation that makes our state a more just, free, and safe place to live and raise families, but year after year we see most of our priority bills fall victim to a torturous legislative process filled with a myriad of pitfalls, minefields, and political quagmire.
By Micah McCoy
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