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Halt Special Legislative Session, Urge 41 Advocacy Organizations and Mental Health Experts

Today, the ACLU of New Mexico, EQNM, Bold Futures NM, and the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, along with 37 other leading advocacy organizations and mental health experts sent a letter to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham urging her to call off the special legislative session.
Issue Areas: Criminal Legal Reform

ACLU-NM Calls for Investigation, Releases After Man Dies in ICE Custody in Otero Detention Facility

The ACLU of New Mexico calls on ICE to conduct an immediate and impartial investigation into Jhon Javier Benavides Quintana's death and to publicize the results of the investigation.
Issue Areas: Immigrants’ Rights

Migrants Held in Otero Prison File Complaint for Retaliatory Use of Solitary Confinement

The five asylum seekers from Venezuela refused to agree to their removal to Mexico due to their fear of serious harm in Mexico. In direct retaliation, ICE officers and guards placed them in solitary confinement.
Issue Areas: Immigrants’ Rights

Family Sues APD Over SWAT Raid That Destroyed Albuquerque Home

The Coleman family, who lost their home in Albuquerque following a SWAT operation-caused fire, filed a complaint today against the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO).
Issue Areas: Police Practices

As APD Consent Decree Ends, ACLU Urges Vigilance in Ensuring Community Members' Rights and Safety

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico emphasized the crucial need for continued vigilance to safeguard the protection of community members' rights and safety.
Issue Areas: Police Practices

ACLU Issues Travel Advisory for Oklahoma After Passage of Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law

The American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLUs) of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, San Diego and Imperial Counties, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas issued an advisory warning their residents about the threat of civil and constitutional rights violations when traveling in Oklahoma.
Issue Areas: Immigrants’ Rights

Students Have the Right to Peacefully Protest, Says the ACLU of New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Today, following disturbing reports that New Mexico State Police and University of New Mexico (UNM) Police used teargas and arrested protestors on UNM’s campus, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico warned university leaders and law enforcement that students…
Issue Areas: Free Speech

ACLU Calls for Investigation of Police Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Woman in Northeast Albuquerque

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico grieves the death of an unarmed woman at the hands of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) yesterday.
Issue Areas: Police Practices

ACLU of New Mexico Says Texas Anti-Immigrant Law Will Hurt New Mexicans

The legislation creates a new state crime for unauthorized entry or re-entry into Texas from a foreign country. It puts tremendous power in the hands of local and state law enforcement who are not trained in immigration law and have no proper authority to enforce it.
Issue Areas: Immigrants’ Rights