Immigrants' Rights

This year’s most-read ACLU stories trace a nation grappling with military overreach, attacks on the press, threats to immigrant and transgender communities, and the fight for justice in response.

A federal court has once again ruled that the Trump administration is breaking the law – this time by denying people the opportunity to challenge their ongoing ICE detention.

The district court ruling reflects nationwide judicial consensus that new Trump administration policy violates the law.

LD 1971 will limit the use of local resources to support the president’s mass deportation agenda. It is set to become law without the governor’s signature.

In September 2025, the ACLU of Maine, together with several partners, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court to challenge the widespread denial of bond hearings to people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As the complaint demonstrates, this denial upends decades of settled law and established practice in immigration proceedings.

Learn more about a nationwide class that protects the citizenship rights of all children born on U.S. soil.

The ACLU has filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of over 100 students whose F-1 student immigration statuses were unlawfully terminated. We're asking the court to reinstate their F-1 student status so that they can continue their studies.

We're suing the Trump administration for issuing an executive order that blatantly violates the plain language of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.