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The ACLU of Pennsylvania recently sent a letter urging county officials to implement a policy of only honoring ICE detainers if they are accompanied by a valid judicial warrant backed by probable cause, as required by the Fourth Amendment.

Here’s what every school needs to know if ICE comes knocking at their door.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is prepared for a second Trump administration, which is a clear and present danger to civil liberties, to communities we serve, and to democracy itself.

When it comes to immigration and public safety, politicians running for office in 2024 tend to get it all wrong no matter if they are a Democrat or a Republican.

The ACLU-PA has teamed up with Legal Services of New Jersey and the UPenn to file a federal complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties over the conditions at Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

A 2019 lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Pennsylvania alleged that Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) had a practice of ethnically profiling, stopping, and detaining Latinos to check their immigration “papers.” Three years after filing suit, we have reached a settlement.

Fighting against new and repurposed immigration detention centers in Pennsylvania is beginning to feel like a horrible game of whack-a-mole.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is in federal court this week, arguing for a classwide injunction that would immediately release from ICE custody medically vulnerable people from immigration detention in Clinton, Pike, and York counties.

A few weeks ago, Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, a 57-year-old man who had diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems tested positive for COVID-19 and died in immigration detention shortly after.