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Alongside coalition partners, ACLU of Louisiana Immigrant Rights Staff Attorney Andrew Perry speaks to the inhumane conditions in Louisiana's ICE detention facilities.

The ACLU of Louisiana and its coalition partners have released Inside the Black Hole, a new report documenting widespread abuse and inhumane treatment at nine immigration detention facilities across Louisiana.

The ACLU of Louisiana has made regular visits to detention centers for the past two years. Here’s what we’re learning.

It was a moment we never thought we’d see: our client, an asylum seeker with severe disabilities, boarding a plane to meet his sponsor family in New Jersey.

The Trump administration has undertaken a massive and secretive expansion of its mass-detention state – right in our own backyard.

Last year, the LHSAA stepped up enforcement of a rule requiring students to provide their Social Security numbers in order to participate in school sports. Last week, the LHSAA agreed to repeal this unconstitutional policy thanks to a grassroots campaign organized by our allies at Nuestra Voz.

Birthright citizenship is one of the bedrocks of this country. More than 150 years ago, the 14th Amendment guaranteed to all those born within the United States citizenship, without regard to parentage, skin color or ethnicity.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke to thousands of law enforcers in New Orleans this week at the National Sheriffs’ Conference, congratulating themselves on Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy of separating families at the border

The Trump administration today announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program. The DACA program has served as a critical lifeline for nearly 800,000 young immigrants, or “Dreamers,” who came this country as children and know the United States as their only home.