NEW ORLEANS —As part of its ongoing Immigrant Rights Project (IRP), the ACLU of Louisiana has launched a new monthly blog series that seeks to educate the nation about the hard truths surrounding immigration detention in Louisiana.

NEW YORK -- ACLU of Louisiana (ACLU-LA), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), and New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed five Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to obtain records from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding policies and practices within the...

The ACLU of Louisiana and American Civil Liberties Union filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal court seeking the release of Jessica Patricia Barahona-Martinez, a single mother and LGBTQ asylum seeker from El Salvador who has been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

NEW ORLEANS — In 2022, as we marked 20 years of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the ACLU of Louisiana and immigrants’ rights coalition partners launched an initiative designed to provide people detained in Louisiana with knowledge about their legal rights.

NEW ORLEANS — On the heels of the ACLU’s new research study about barriers to legal representation in ICE detention centers, the organization launched a legal rights initiative designed to provide noncitizens with knowledge of their legal rights so they can exercise them when unlawfully detained.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today announced a court-approved settlement on behalf of Ramon Torres, a U.S. citizen who was unlawfully jailed for three days by the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant because of his race.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, alongside the Scott Law Firm, LLC, has filed suit in federal court for the release of a Togolese immigrant being detained at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review in the case of Ded Rranxburgaj, an Albanian immigrant who has taken sanctuary inside the Central United Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan.

NEW ORLEANS – The ACLU of Louisiana issued the following statement regarding a whistleblower complaint asserting high rates of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant detainees at a detention center in Georgia run by LaSalle Corrections.