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Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Cases In dozens of cities across the country, local government officials are attempting to drive those they describe as “illegal immigrants” out of their towns by punishing those who employ or rent to them. Learn more >>

ACLU And MALDEF File Lawsuit Against Arizona Town Over Anti-Solicitation Law (03/25/2008)
PHOENIX – A local Arizona anti-solicitation ordinance targeting day laborers violates the free speech rights of individuals who express their availability to work by standing in public areas, charged the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in a lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

Challenge To Arizona Employer Sanctions Law Continues In Appellate Court (02/07/2008)
PHOENIX - After a Phoenix federal court today issued a decision that would allow Arizona officials to begin enforcement of the so-called Legal Arizona Workers Act on March 1, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) announced that they will ask the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to suspend the Act.

Civil Rights Coalition Condemns Court Decision Upholding Missouri Employer Sanctions Law (01/31/2008)
VALLEY PARK, MO – Today a Missouri federal court upheld the City of Valley Park's so-called "Illegal Immigration Relief Act" that unlawfully punishes business owners and employers who are suspected of hiring undocumented workers.

Civil Rights Coalition Continues to Challenge Arizona Employer Sanctions Law (12/21/2007)
PHOENIX – A Phoenix federal court today declined to issue an order suspending the so-called Legal Arizona Workers Act from going into effect on January 1, 2008. The law would compel businesses to check the work authorization status of employees using the Department of Homeland Security’s Basic Pilot program (recently renamed e-Verify) and would institute new state-based penalties, including the revocation of business licenses without federal authorization.

Civil Rights Coalition to Argue in Court Today that Arizona Employer Sanctions Law is Illegal (11/14/2007)
PHOENIX –Today in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, a coalition of civil rights groups argued that the so-called Legal Arizona Workers Act illegally punishes businesses by improperly requiring their participation in a flawed work authorization verification database and would lead to discrimination against workers who are perceived as being foreign born.

Complaint in Lopez, et al vs. Town of Cave Creek, et. al. (03/25/2008)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Order Denying Injunction Pending Appeal (02/28/2008)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Complaint (12/12/2007)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Memo of Points and Authorities in Support of Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction (12/12/2007)

Valle del Sol v. Goddard - Application for Temporary Restraining Order (12/12/2007)

ACLU Backgrounder on English Only Policies in Congress (12/10/2007)
In 2006 the Senate took up an amendment to make English the national language in connection with the Comprehensive Immigration Reform (“CIR”) Act. The amendment, offered by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), passed the Senate by a vote of 62 to 35. This amendment was substantially diluted by the subsequent passage of an alternative amendment by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) which declared English as the “common and unifying language of the United States.” Both amendments, largely symbolic in nature, died when the Senate failed to pass CIR. Similar amendments were introduced and passed in the 2007 version of the CIR, which also failed to become law. Nonetheless, the fact that nearly two-thirds of the Senate voted to make English the national language illustrates the intense, and unfortunately misguided, fervor surrounding the English-only debate.

ACLU of Virginia Letter to Prince William County Board of Supervisors (07/09/2007)

Escondido, Calif., Resolution No. 2007-16 and Final Statement (01/10/2007)
Escondido, California's, Resolution No. 2007-16 and final statement.

Farmers Branch, Texas, Ordinance No. 2892 (01/02/2007)

Hazleton, Pa., Ordinance No. 2006-40 (12/26/2006)
Entitled "Illegal Immigration Relief Act Implementation Amendment," this ordinance is the third version of the city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act.

Letter to Esmeralda County School District Superintendent Robert Aumaugher (01/31/2008)
Letter from the ACLU of Nevada and the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project requesting Aumaugher to reconsider and rescind the school district's policy prohibiting public high school students in the district from speaking Spanish while riding the school bus.

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Cherokee County, Ga. (01/19/2007)

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Farmers Branch, Texas (01/05/2007)

Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: Riverside, N.J. (01/05/2007)

Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Cases (01/05/2007)
In dozens of cities across the country, local government officials are attempting to drive immigrants out of their towns by punishing those who employ or rent to individuals who cannot prove their status to the satisfaction of municipal authorities.

Valle del Sol v. Goddard (11/14/2007)
Civil Rights Coalition Argues Arizona Employer Sanctions Law Is Illegal