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American Civil Liberties Union
noun
an organization founded in 1920 to defend the civil rights of all U.S. citizens. ACLU, A.C.L.U.
American Civil Liberties Union
An organization founded in 1920 in the wake of the red scare to defend civil liberties. The ACLU has often defended the rights of individuals aligned with unpopular causes, including American communists and Nazis.
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The protests were organized by Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union and 50501.
Glendale has held at least 82 individuals for ICE since January, according to Andrés Kwon, a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
The American Civil Liberties Union has warned that Trump’s use of the military domestically would be misguided and dangerous.
Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take aerial images of their homes in what the American Civil Liberties Union is calling a “runaway spying operation.”
Despite its newer status with ICE, Bluebonnet had one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks among ICE detention centers in the U.S. in 2021, and the American Civil Liberties Union listed the facility among 38 recommended for shut down because of its dangerous operations.
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