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Immigration Officials Targeting Greyhound Bus Passengers with Company’s Consent
Citing in part the detaining of a Greyhound bus passenger in Indio by border patrol agents without a warrant, the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday sent a letter to Greyhound calling on the...
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Deported Army Veteran Hector Barajas Finally Gets U.S. Citizenship
Deported Army veteran Hector Barajas, who has been living in Mexico for eight years, has been notified by the Department of Homeland Security that he is being granted U.S. citizenship. Barajas is...
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El Cajon Gym Sued Over Alleged Discrimination Against Transgender Woman
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties moved Wednesday to join a lawsuit filed by a state agency on behalf of a 61-year-old transgender woman who said she was...
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San Diego ACLU Settles With Fired Spokeswoman, Averting ‘Whistleblower’ Trial
Election Day saw another battle resolved, but the combatants — the San Diego ACLU and its fired spokeswoman — aren’t required to reveal the results. On Tuesday, San Diego Superior Court Judge Katherine...
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Protesters Seeking Abolition of ICE Blockade Downtown Federal Building
Groups from as far away as New York, Georgia and Texas joined local immigrant-rights activists Monday at Chicano Park for a two-hour rally, followed by a march downtown where some blocked the entrance...
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Opinion: How Family Separations Mess Up Children’s Genes
Last Saturday I attended a protest in downtown San Diego with my 21-month baby girl and friends with their babies in strollers. When our babies cried we picked them up, held them close, and kissed...
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San Diego Judge Is Told 52 of 102 Separated Children to Be Reunited Tuesday
Just more than half of the 102 children under age 5 who were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy against illegal immigration are expected...
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San Diego Judge Finds ‘Substantial Compliance’ in Reuniting Immigrant Families
A federal judge in San Diego Friday ordered the Trump administration to continue without delay the reuniting young immigrant children who were taken away from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border,...
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San Diego Judge Orders One-Week Halt to Deportations of Reunited Families
A federal judge in San Diego issued an order Monday barring the federal government from deporting newly reunited immigrant families for up to one week, with the American Civil Liberties Union raising...
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Nearly 900 Migrant Children Reunited with Parents, 500-Plus Cleared for...
The process of reunifying an estimated 2,551 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration should be...
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Feds Say Most Immigrant Children Separated from Families Have Been Returned
The federal government scrambled Thursday to meet a deadline set by a federal judge in San Diego to finish reuniting children who were separated from their families at the border, but hundreds of them...
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San Diego Judge Ponders ACLU Request to Halt Family Deportations
A federal judge in San Diego Friday took under submission a request by the American Civil Liberties Union for a restraining order preventing the government from immediately deporting newly reunified...
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Judge Fears ‘Permanently Orphaned’ Kids, Orders Feds to Devise Plan to Find...
A federal judge Friday ordered the government to come up with a plan to find parents who have been deported or released back into the United States after being separated from their children at the...
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Judge Sabraw Says ‘Very Encouraging Number’ of Separated Parents Contacted
A federal judge in San Diego said Friday he is encouraged by the government’s plan to locate parents who were either deported or released into the United States after being separated from their...
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Bring Separated Parents Back to U.S., ACLU Tells San Diego Judge
Some families separated at the border as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration can only be made whole by returning a parent who was removed from the United States back to...
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San Diego Judge on Reunification: ‘Everything Being Done to Locate These...
A federal judge overseeing the reunification of children separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration said Friday he is “very encouraged”...
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Gov. Brown Signs Bill Overhauling California’s Monetary Bail System
A bill that will overhaul the state’s monetary bail system, giving judges more discretion in determining which defendants should remain behind bars, was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown....
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Government: We Have Contact Information for Parents of All Separated Children
Government officials said Thursday that contact information has been identified for all of the 304 children in federal care after they were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as...
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San Diego Judge to Review ACLU Settlement on Families Separated at Border
A proposed settlement agreement reached between the Trump administration and plaintiffs in three lawsuits which outlines a plan to address the asylum claims of parents and children who were separated...
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‘Move Forward Quickly,’ San Diego Judge Tells Parties to Family-Reunification...
A San Diego federal judge overseeing a class-action lawsuit seeking reunification of parents and their children separated at the border Friday urged the parties to get moving on a proposed settlement...
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