Bio
Chris Rickerd is a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's National Political Advocacy Department who does administrative and legislative advocacy on border and immigration issues. Prior to joining the ACLU, he spent seven years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco as a law clerk and staff attorney and then worked for the Miami law firm of Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli and Pratt.
Featured work
![Border Wall Beach](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-wallbeach-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 5, 2017
The House Is Moving Along a Bill Worth $10 Billion That Would Fund Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Wall and Expand His Deportation Force
![Sec. John Kelly](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-sec.johnkelly-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 21, 2017
Homeland Security Secretary Tells Critics To Shut Up. We Won’t.
![Police saluting](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-police-saluting-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 7, 2017
Local Police Should Just Say No to Federal Agreements That Make Their Officers Part of Trump’s Deportation Force
![CBP at Border](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-cbpatborder-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Feb 22, 2017
President Trump Is Beginning to Build the Apparatus of Human Misery He Promised During the Campaign
![Border Patrol agent reads the Miranda rights to a Mexican national arrested for transporting drugs](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-borderpatrolofficer-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jun 13, 2016
Border Patrol Union Scorns Award for Agents Who Follow Policy to Avoid Deadly Force
![Warehoused and Forgotten](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-warehousedandforgotten-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 4, 2016
The Best Way of Stopping Out-of-Control Immigration Prosecutions Is to Avoid Them in the First Place
![CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-cbp-kerlikowske-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Aug 31, 2015
A Federal Judge Denounced the ‘Egregious Conditions’ of Border Patrol Holding Cells: Will Anything Change?
![Woman with bruises](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-domstcviolnc-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 19, 2015
Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: “Assault on a Latino by a Latino” Deserves Less Protection
![Border Patrol agents patrol U.S. border with Mexico near Nogales, Arizona.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-cbppatrol-400x266.jpg)
May 5, 2015
Senator John McCain Is Pushing an Extreme Border-Security Bill That Tramples on the Environment