American Civil Liberties Union

Summary (posts follow):

Far-left organization that's presented as mainstream by the media and is allowed to hide behind their anodyne name. While some of the things they do are commendable, others are not and they're selective in which cases they choose to pursue. When it comes to immigration, almost every single case they've been involved in would further illegal immigration and assist those who profit from illegal activity such as the Mexican government and corrupt businesses.

They're also directly collaborating with the Mexican government, possibly to sue the U.S. government in furtherance of illegal activity.

One of the best ways to do something about them is to go to a public appearance by one of their representatives and ask these questions on video.

Last modified Dec 7, 2008

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American Civil Liberties Union opposes both 287g and Secure Communities - 11/19/2009

... congressional testimony offered by the American Civil Liberties Union (more on them and questions for them at the link) on April 2, 2008 [1]: Recommendations: The ACLU urges that ICE: * Halt entering into future (287g) agreements with states and localities; * Cease recognition and compliance with 287(g) agreements currently in operation. * Halt implementation of the Secure Communities plan which ...

A challenge for Kevin Keenan of the ACLU: drop the false compassion - 10/19/2009

Earlier today, Kevin Keenan of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties spoke with Alan Ray about the ACLU's recent report on San Diego's KPBS. The audio and transcript is here. In the interview (excerpt at [1]), Keenan showed a remarkable level of false compassion, complaining about deaths among border crossers without discussing the partial responsibility t...

ACLU-Mexico partnership calls for nearly open borders; "humanitarian crisis" they helped cause - 9/30/2009

... the San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union announced a collaboration with Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights, a quasi-governmental agency. They've now released a report in which they - surprise - oppose border enforcement and call for what would amount to nearly open borders. The report is entitled "Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Bord...

Napolitano immigration meeting: you weren't represented (vast # of loose borders groups, Obama/Janet anti-287g) - 8/20/2009

Earlier today, Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security held a closed-door meeting with a group of what she calls "stakeholders" (dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1250792978709.shtm) but was actually a vast pantheon (see below) of far-left, racial power, corrupt business, and in general loose borders groups all of which want some form of comprehensive immigration reform, aka amne...

ACLU sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged racial profiling (Dan Pochoda) - 8/19/2009

The American Civil Liberties Union - an organization that is/was collaborating with the Mexican government in a scheme that would help that government profit from illegal activity inside the U.S. - is suing Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged racial profiling and related issues (aclu.org/immigrants/workplace/40777prs20090819.html). According to the ACLU, a father and son - the ...

ACLU tries to block 287g program, files FOIA request - 7/15/2009

... commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/15-4 The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request Tuesday for new documents governing the continued delegation to state and local law enforcement agencies of federal immigration enforcement authority. The fundamentally flawed program has been associated with serious civil rights abuses and public safety concerns... [references the...

DOJ blocks Georgia from checking citizenship of voters; GA has evidence of non-citizen voting - 6/02/2009

From this press release from Karen Handel, Secretary of State of Georgia: "The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyer...

Nina Bernstein, New York Times on immigration and mental illness - 5/04/2009

... case. UPDATE: Michael Tan of the American Civil Liberties Union discusses the article and lists that Mexican government-linked group's demands at blog.aclu.org/2009/05/04/mentally-disabled-immigrants-deserve-due-process

George Soros funding ACLU, SPLC immigration projects - 4/29/2009

... States. Amalia Greenberg Delgado; lawyer; American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California; San Francisco, CA Greenberg Delgado will develop a public education program to counter myths about immigrants and crime, and advocate for improved law-enforcement practices in immigrant communities. State and local police in California increasingly target people based not on suspected criminal activit...

2006: Grover Norquist supported amnesty with U.S. CofC, far-left ACLU, NCLR, SEIU, NIF, USCCB, AFL-CIO - 4/09/2009

... Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union Note that Munoz is now part of the Obama administration.

Is the ACLU's official policy to just enforce labor laws (with little or no immigration enforcement)? - 4/03/2009

... Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation" [1] - conducted an interview with the leftwing "Uprising Radio" program [2]. You can listen to it at that link; it mostly concerned the no match ruling which was in the news at that time. I didn't post about this at the time because he didn't come right out and say anything that damaging; li...

Zoe Lofgren, Jerrold Nadler, ACLU try to end 287g program (4/2/09 hearing; Arpaio) - 4/01/2009

... advance of the hearing, today the American Civil Liberties Union - a group that's directly collaborating with the Mexican government - called on the Obama administration to end the program (aclu.org/immigrants/gen/39244prs20090401.html, link): The ACLU is calling for an end to all partnerships under the 287(g) program, which trains and allows local and county police forces to enforce immigra...

ACLU controlling Obama policy? ("Transition Recommendations" wants most immigration enforcement halted, + much more) - 3/17/2009

In November, the American Civil Liberties Union released "Actions For Restoring America: Transition Recommendations for President‐Elect Barack Obama" (aclu.org/transition) listing things they wanted him to do the first day, within the first 100 days, and within the first year. Several of their proposals would halt immigration enforcement to a great extent, pending "review". T...

"The Least of These" movie: ACLU pro-illegal immigration propaganda - 3/16/2009

The American Civil Liberties Union - a group that's directly collaborating with the Mexican government - is promoting (blog.aclu.org/2009/03/16/the-least-of-these-documents-aclu-lawsuit) a new documentary called "The Least of These" about conditions at the Hutto immigration detention center in Texas. The film's main conceit is faulty: those held in the detention center are not ...

Juliana Barbassa /AP: it's "drastic" to cut non-emergency health care to illegal aliens - 3/15/2009

Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press offers "Budget crunch cuts illegal immigrants' health care" (link), a discussion of localities reducing or eliminating non-emergency healthcare to illegal aliens. On the one hand, supporters of illegal immigration are quick to tell us that illegal aliens don't get welfare benefits; on the other hand, when those benefits (broadly construe...

Judge Mary Murguia in Joe Arpaio case is twin sister of NCLR's Janet - 3/01/2009

... public opinion. Note also that the American Civil Liberties Union is involved in the case; that organization is directly collaborting with the Mexican government in an effort that would block the border fence and other forms of immigration enforcement. 7/17/09 UPDATE: She's recused herself from the case (link).

Thomas Saenz of MALDEF is new DOJ civil rights division chief (Villaraigosa) - 2/24/2009

Per the Los Angeles Daily Journal (reblogged by the WSJ here), the new head of the civil rights division at the Department of Justice is Thomas Saenz. For about a dozen years, Saenz worked as an attorney for the far-left, illegal immigration-supporting Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and lately he was of counsel to the far-left, illegal immigration-supporting mayor of...

CBO: SAVE Act would have cost $40 billion over 10 years, incl. $30 billion for e-Verify (Tim Sparapani/ACLU lies) - 2/15/2009

On April 4, 2008, the Congressional Budget Office - responding to a request from Rep. John Conyers - estimated the cost of H.R. 4088, the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007 or SAVE Act. The bill didn't pass, but it shows that the outlay for eVerify would be about $12 billion over ten years. e-Verify would also result in the federal government losing about $17 bill...

Rights Working Group wants immigration enforcement moratorium and much more (ACLU, NCLR, 248 others) - 1/09/2009

The Asian American Justice Center runs the Rights Working Group, a coalition of over 250 leftwing groups, and they have a petition calling on Barack Obama to in effect not do immigration enforcement. They want a "moratorium" while the subject of raids and the like is "studied", but everyone knows what that means. Since there are so many groups, the full roster is here. The main...

20,000 U.S. military troops to help with "homeland security" in U.S. by 2011 - 12/01/2008

Spencer Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson of the Washington Post offers "Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security" (link), which is currently being linked by Drudge: The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pent...

Judge Peter Busch: San Francisco can pass out ID cards to all, including illegal aliens - 10/15/2008

From this: A lawsuit to block San Francisco from handing out municipal identification cards to anyone who has lived in the city for at least 15 days regardless of their immigration status was tossed out of court Tuesday. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ruled against the Immigration Reform Law Institute of Washington D.C., which left open the possibility of an appeal. A quote fr...

Mexico-linked ACLU, MALDEF, Steptoe & Johnson sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio for "profiling" - 7/17/2008

... clean bill of health. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and their Arizona chapter, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and the law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLP have sued Arpaio, his Sheriffs Office (MCSO), and the county itself claiming racial profiling. Also involved is the local group Somos America. The details on the case are here: aclu.org/immi...

Debbie Russell/ACLU tries blocking immigration enforcement in Austin, Texas (ICE, jails) - 6/23/2008

The American Civil Liberties Union is collaborating with the Mexican government, so the following shouldn't be much of a surprise: An ACLU attorney [ACLU of Texas Central Texas Chapter President Debbie Russell] and immigration rights' advocate [Austin Immigrants' Rights Coalition member Caroline Keating-Guerra] sighed with some relief after the City of Austin Human Rights Commissio...

Caltrans suspends Adopt-A-Highway to "review" guidelines (SD Minutemen, ACLU, Lori Saldana) - 6/20/2008

From this we learn that the California Department of Transportation ("Caltrans") is reviewing the guidelines used in their Adopt-A-Highway program, whereby groups can volunteer to clean up stretches of highways. In exchange, they get some publicity with their names on signs along the stretches.

Jorge Bustamante of United Nations to review immigration in Prince William County, Virginia - 6/05/2008

The United Nations' special rapporteur on migrants' rights, Jorge Bustamante will be paying a visit to Prince William County, Virginia to review their strict anti-illegal immigration ordinance (link).

Mexico-linked ACLU: immigration raids are "terrorizing communities" (Joanne Lin) - 5/22/2008

Joanne Lin, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union - an organization collaborating with the Mexican government to possibly sue the U.S. government - on Monday appeared at a meeting of the Appleseed Foundation and said, in reference to local police playing a role in immigration enforcement under the 287g program: "Local law enforcement has been given the green light to engage in ...

Three questions for the American Civil Liberties Union (Kevin Keenan) - 5/22/2008

... 24, 2008 I sent an email to the American Civil Liberties Union's San Diego chapter, directed to their president Kevin Keenan. I listed a few questions I had for them concerning the fact that they're collaborating with the Mexican government to in effect block immigration enforcement. Needless to say, I haven't heard back. (Note: See the first link for the details on the collaborati...

Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) tries tying ICE's hands on immigration raids; Mexico-linked ACLU cheers - 5/20/2008

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ACLU now working with Mexican government - 4/22/2008

The San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is now working with directly with Mexico's Human Rights Commission, a quasi-governmental group that's independent from but funded by the Mexican government. The ACLU is a very strong supporter of illegal immigration but in the past the only known link between them and the Mexican government was indirect. Any future news r...

Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon files FBI complaint over Joe Arpaio raids - 4/13/2008

... mentioned opposing the raids are the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (both have indirect links to the Mexican government), the Arizona Ecumenical Council, and the American Jewish Committee (collaborated with the Mexican government).

Otero County, New Mexico capitulates to ACLU, MALDEF - 4/09/2008

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - two groups indirectly linked to the Mexican government - sued New Mexico's Otero County Sheriff's Department over immigration raids that occurred in that county.

Bob Barr for President 2008: muddled thinking? - 4/05/2008

... also been affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). And, his position on immigration (bobbarr2008.com/issues) shows some possibly muddled thinking.

Denver public school system dumbs down "highly gifted" program to be more "equitable" (ACLU) - 3/08/2008

Jeremy Meyer of the Denver Post offers 'Minorities, poor get "highly gifted" lift/A new DPS system awards some kids an extra boost to make things more equitable', but don't worry it's even worse than it sounds: ...To determine who gets into [their "highly gifted" program], the [Denver Public School district] previously relied on oral tests that measure a st...

Jason DeParle/NYT gives full page ad to Migration Policy Institute - 2/04/2008

Jason DeParle of the New York Times gives a "big warm hug" to the Migration Policy Institute and their online journal Migration Information Source (migrationinformation.org) in "A Tiny Staff, Tracking People Across the Globe". It's essentially an ad not just for that group but also an ad in support of migration and globalism in general.

Jorge Bustamante/U.N./Notre Dame wants pro-illegal immigration boycott (earlier: dual citizenship to support Mexico's agenda in U.S.) - 12/16/2007

From this: Jorge Bustamante, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and a sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame, this week called Republican Party policies on immigration "immoral." Writing in the Mexico City daily Reforma, Bustamante said the Republican candidates share a in imm

Bush admin to submit new no-match rule... in March 2008 - 11/25/2007

In October, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blocked the Bush administration from enforcing a new "no-match" rule that they'd announced in August. Under "no-match", letters are sent to companies warning them that an employees' name doesn't match the Social Security number they provided.

Arkansas Friendship Coalition: ACLU, Tyson Foods, ACORN join to support "immigration" - 11/01/2007

The Arkansas Friendship Coalition (arfriendshipcoalition.org) is a new group formed by business and religious leaders, and their goal is to ensure that Arkansas doesn't establish Prop. 200/187-style laws as Oklahoma and Missouri have or are trying to do. They're led by Rev.

Richard Marosi/Ari Bloomekatz/LAT enable illegal immigration (San Diego fires) - 10/28/2007

... Immigrant rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union, however, claim that authorities have created a climate of intimidation through neglect and such policies as asking for identification at some shelters... ...The mere presence of Border Patrol was enough to scare off some immigrants... ...The ACLU and immigrant rights groups claim illegal immigrants were subjected to racial profiling ...

ACLU, Leslie Berestein, Amy Isackson defending looters because they're illegal aliens - 10/26/2007

... field and policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, said about 25 families who were staying at the stadium left after the incident because they were undocumented, or of mixed legal status... Guerrero said the police department should not have called Border Patrol agents, some of whom are stationed at the stadium assisting other law enforcement officers, unless formal cr...

District Judge Charles Breyer blocks DHS no-match letters (ACLU, CofC, AFL-CIO) - 10/10/2007

... Commerce, the AFL-CIO and the American Civil Liberties Union, had raised such serious questions about the plan to mail Social Security "no-match" letters to 140,000 U.S. employers that it should be blocked from proceeding. It's not that "unusual": such groups have been allied in their support for illegal activity for a long time. Note of course that this is being portray...

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