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ACLU, Nearly 300 Michigan Attorneys Urge ICE to End Immigration Arrests at Courthouses
June 01, 2017Nearly 300 Michigan attorneys and 20 Michigan legal organizations, including the ACLU of Michigan, called Thursday for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop its growing practice of arresting individuals in and around courthouses, warning that the arrests would undermine immigrants’ wi
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ACLU, ACRL Return To Court In Continuing Effort To Compel The White House To Produce Giuliani Commission Memo About Muslim Ban
May 26, 2017As part of an ongoing attempt to expose the true intentions behind President Trump’s Muslim ban, the ACLU of Michigan, the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) and others filed a motion to compel the White House to turn over a memo from a commission established by Rudolph Giuliani prior to th
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ACLU of Michigan Urges Taylor Police to Change Policy and Training After Violent Arrest of Calvin Jones
May 25, 2017The ACLU of Michigan sent a letter to the Taylor Police Department, urging re-training and policy changes for its officers in the wake of a traffic stop last year in which an African-American motorist was snatched from his car, put in a chokehold until he claims he blacked out and then, once arre
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ACLU of Michigan, ACRL Statements on Trump's Refusal to Turn Over Giuliani Memo As Ordered by Court
May 20, 2017DETROIT--The White House has refused to release a memo from a commission established by Rudolph Giuliani that was created with the express purpose of creating a legal rationale for the Muslim Ban.
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ACLU of Michigan and the NAACP-LDF Call on Flint City Council to Impose a Moratorium on Property Liens for Unpaid Water Bills
May 16, 2017The ACLU of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund today urged the Flint City Council to suspend local efforts to impose property liens on thousands of Flint homeowners for failing to pay delinquent bills for contaminated municipal water—which has been unsafe to drink for mo
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Federal Court Orders Trump to Produce Giuliani Memo, Other Documents on How to Make Muslim Ban Legal
May 12, 2017In response to a recent joint lawsuit filed by the Arab American Civil Rights League, the ACLU of Michigan and others, a federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to turn over key documents related to his Executive Order banning travel from six Muslim majority countries and freezin
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