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The American Civil Liberties Union (https://www.aclu.org/) — a nonprofit legal organization defending constitutional rights. Incidents documented, litigated, or challenged by the ACLU serve as key evidence in this archive.

3 incidents

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Camp East Montana: Beatings, Medical Neglect and Deaths at the ICE Tent Camp on Fort Bliss

Human Rights Watch and the ACLU documented beatings, medical neglect and coercive deportations at Camp East Montana, the ICE tent camp on Fort Bliss and the largest US immigration detention facility. Three men died there within weeks, one in a death ruled a homicide. ICE's own inspection found unreported uses of force. DHS denies all of it.

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Ill-Treatment

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions that Human Rights Watch says may amount to ill-treatment prohibited under international law: isolation for up to 23 hours a day, punitive restraint in a chair, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Suspension of Asylum at the Southern Border

The administration imposed an unprecedented total ban on asylum claims at the southern border, shutting down the CBP One app and eliminating all avenues for protection. A federal judge ruled the president 'cannot adopt an alternative immigration system which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted.'