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ACLU Comments on Bureau of Prisons Regulations on Psychiatric Treatment (08/12/2008)
Comments of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California regarding RIN 1120-AB20, Proposed Revision to Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s) Regulations on Providing Psychiatric Treatment and Medication to Inmates.

Immigration Raids: Postville and Beyond (07/31/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) commends the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law for conducting a hearing on July 24, 2008 regarding the Postville, Iowa immigration raid and criminal prosecutions. Many important facts and questions emerged from the oral and written testimony at the hearing. However, many disturbing aspects of this raid have not been fully addressed and many inconsistencies and critical questions remain unanswered.

English and Integration Act Sign-On Letter (07/30/2008)

ACLU Statement for House Homeland Security Committee (07/17/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") commends the House Committee on Homeland Security for conducting a hearing on the challenges faced by the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") in aligning programs, personnel, and resources to achieve border security. The ACLU urges the Committee to exercise rigorous oversight of DHS’s inspection, detention, and deportation practices at the international borders and ports of entry. This written statement addresses a range of problematic DHS practices in immigration interrogation, detention, and removal, as well as DHS’s collection of personal data on millions of U.S. citizens, its use and misuse of that data, and its attempts to build an ever-expanding surveillance infrastructure. Collectively, these practices illustrate how DHS has mismanaged and abused its authority, wasted valuable human resources, and pursued practices that are terrifying immigrant communities around the country.

ACLU Testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law (06/10/2008)
Chairwoman Lofgren, Ranking Member King and Subcommittee Members, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”), America’s oldest and largest civil liberties organization, and its more than half a million members and 53 affiliates across the country, we are pleased to submit this testimony. The ACLU writes to oppose any legislative proposal that would impose a mandatory, electronic employment eligibility verification pre-screening system on America’s workforce. Under any name, the original Basic Pilot Employment Verification System (also known as E-Verify, hereinafter “Basic Pilot”) or another mandatory employment eligibility prescreening system would impose unacceptable burdens on America’s workers, businesses and society at large without resolving America’s undocumented immigration dilemma. The costs associated with this program cannot be denied and cannot be overstated; any benefits are speculative, at best.

ACLU testimony before House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees at a hearing regarding immigrant detainee medical care (06/04/2008)

Testimony of Tom Jawetz, staff attorney for the ACLU National Prison Project, before the US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law (05/21/2008)

ACLU Written Statement Submitted to the Senate Finance Committee (05/08/2008)

ACLU and ACLU-NC Comments on Proposed No-Match Rule (04/24/2008)

Written Statement of Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, Submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee on Social Security Claim Delays for Disability (04/23/2008)

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