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ACLU Statement for Senate Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing on Department of Homeland Security (04/02/2008)

ACLU Testimony on Immigration Detention Oversight (02/13/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union commends the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law for conducting an oversight hearing of interrogation, detention, and removal practices conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Section. We urge the Subcommittee to initiate a rigorous oversight process to ensure that ICE is held accountable to Congress and the public for its enforcement practices. The following written statement, submitted on behalf of the ACLU, will address a range of problematic ICE practices at the interrogation, detention, and removal stages.

Testimony from Mark Rosenbaum and James Brosnahan about deportation of U.S. Citizen Peter Guzman (02/13/2008)
The government—whether it be federal or local—lacks any discretion to deport citizens of the Unites States. Citizenship is the constitutional birthright of every individual born within our national borders, and surely the first obligation of government is to preserve at any cost the liberty and security of its citizens to remain within their homeland.

Testimony of Tom Jawetz for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Dr. Allen Keller for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Edwidge Danticat for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Cheryl Little for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of Francisco Castaneda for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Testimony of June Everett for the House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care (10/04/2007)

Liberty & Justice For All Coalition's Statement on Restoring Due Process to Immigrants (05/25/2007)
The undersigned groups are committed to ensuring that the immigration system be reformed to ensure respect for fundamental due process rights. Ensuring due process in the overall system is essential to making comprehensive reform workable, effective and fair.

ACLU Letter to the House of Representatives Urging Opposition to H.R. 6094 and H.R. 6095 (09/21/2006)

Court-Stripping and Anti-Immigrant Provisions in H.R. 10 (As Passed by House) (10/13/2004)

Coalition Sign-on Letter to the House Expressing Support of Rep. Chris Smith's Amendments to Strike Sections 3006 and 3007 from H.R. 10, The House Intelligence Reorganization bill (10/07/2004)

Coalition Sign-On Letter to Clark Kent Ervin at the Department of Homeland Security Expressing Concerns About the Case of Maher Arar (07/16/2004)

Testimony By Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Office, Before the Democratic Party Platform Committee (06/19/2004)

Sign-On Letter to the Honorable Judge Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, Opposing the Use of Video-Conferencing Technology in Immigration Hearings (03/26/2004)

Letter to Asa Hutchinson of the Department of Homeland Security Requesting That the FY 2003 Appropriation to Provide a Legal Orientation Program for Immigration Detainees Be Made Immediately Available to the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) (01/22/2004)

Sign-on Letter to the House Judiciary Committee Urging Oversight on the Treatment of Detainees by the Department of Justice (06/04/2003)

Coalition Letter to President Bush Urging Elimination of the INS "Special Registration Program." (01/09/2003)

Attorney General John Ashcroft's Assault on Civil Liberties (Updated September 2003) (10/30/2002)