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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 12h

The Alien Enemies Act is a 228-year-old law that has only been used 3 times in American history during war. Recently, President Trump used this to justify the deportation of 100 men from Venezuela to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Learn more about the JGG v. Trump case at the link in our bio.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The ACLU believes that community input is crucial to creating policies and processes that benefit all. We have seen across the nation how data centers affect regions’ water, energy, environment and infrastructure.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today, ACLU-SDIC Senior Organizer Daniela Vega gave public comment at the Imperial County Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the temporary data center moratorium.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The ACLU continues to fight back against the various efforts by the federal administration to restrict voting access, reshape electoral systems and erode public trust in elections.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dr. Tom Wong, associate professor of political science at UCSD, moderated our panel featuring civil rights experts Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project and David Trujillo, executive director of ACLU California Action.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you to all who joined our ACLU Conversation last Thursday to discuss how our strategies locally and across the country protect and strengthen one of our most fundamental democratic rights – voting rights.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"So why is that a problem?" asked NBC 7. "Because we are guaranteed privacy, not mass surveillance," closed Carroll. Get the Flock out, shut the Flock down!

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It is capturing people's everyday lives, to create a mosaic picture of what people do, where they go, how they pray, who their friends are, where they work, and everything else", says Frederick Carroll, legal director of the ACLUF-SDIC.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time to Get the Flock Out! ALPRs are an unconstitutional and dangerous mass surveillance tool. Thank you to our partner organizations and supporters who showed up yesterday to learn about the next steps in our fight against ALPRs.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLUF-SDIC), PANA and TRUST SD announced at a press conference the ACLUF-SDIC and PANA's lawsuit against the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department over their use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The city’s use of ALPR violates the California Constitution, which guarantees the people’s right to privacy. To the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department: we’ll see you in court. Read the full press release at www.aclu-sdic.org/press-releas...

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ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties Sues the City of San Diego and San Diego Police Department to End Unconstitutional ALPR Mass Surveillance Program - ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counti...

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties is suing the City of San Diego for their unlawful contract with Flock, on behalf of Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA).

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The show runs through October 18 – visit www.tuyotheatre.org/our-lady-of-... for dates and locations across San Diego Production📸: Josie Gonzales

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The panel discussed the importance of sharing stories, like the ones highlighted in the show, on asylum, migration and the consequences of borders on our most vulnerable.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The play follows two youth-care workers supporting unaccompanied migrant children at the San Diego Convention Center when it was being used as a holding facility for young people seeking asylum in 2021.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Art continues to be a powerful storytelling tool. 🩵 ACLU-SDIC Executive Director Norma Chávez-Peterson recently moderated a panel after a showing of the new play, produced by TuYo Theatre in collaboration with Casa Familiar, “Our Lady of the San Diego Convention Center.”

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We asked our staff and volunteers why they vote. The answers – not surprising! Our people care about putting their power into action 😎

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The mass deportation agenda serves corporate interests while gutting health care, food assistance and other vital support for families. Read the full report: www.aclu.org/publications/citizensh…

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you for inviting us to celebrate the work we all do throughout the county to uplift and support the Latine community!💫✊

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The ACLU-SDIC joined Tuesday’s San Diego Board of Supervisors meeting, where Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe and Supervisor Paloma Aguirre presented a proclamation honoring Latine Heritage Month.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Feeling left out over here :/ How do YOU feel about Flock and ALPRs?

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In June, KPBS reported that Black San Diegans are nine times likelier to charged with resisting an officer – and nothing else. No one should feel targeted or at risk of violence, especially by law enforcement.  So what can you do about it?

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Frederick Carroll, ACLU-SDIC’s legal director, played A.L. Wirin, legendary civil rights attorney and long-time chief counsel for the ACLU of Southern California. Thank you to PALSD for their commitment to remembering the legal victories won during this dark time in American history.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The court ruled that California could not take away Oyama’s land based on his father being a Japanese immigrant who was ineligible for U.S. citizenship under laws at the time.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This historic 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case challenged California’s discriminatory Alien Land Law and centered on land owned in Chula Vista by Fred Oyama, a young American citizen.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego for having us at your seventh annual trial reenactment featuring the landmark case Oyama v. California! ⚖️💫

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yet our nation has repeatedly seen fear and hate used to justify discrimination and violence against Muslims. Such discriminatory policies have been accompanied by a rise in hateful rhetoric, which has severe and devastating consequences.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The ACLU has long advocated for equal protection, religious freedom and the right of every person to participate fully and safely in civil life regardless of faith, race, national origin or identity. These principles are fundamental to our democracy.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today, ACLU-SDIC Senior Policy Advocate Eddie Meyer gave public comment at the San Diego City Council meeting in support of the Anti-Muslim Hate Resolution.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Remember when you voted for the future of your favorite couple EVERY week and life felt like 🩷🤸‍♀️✨🌈🐬🌺😍 ? Keep that feeling by getting ready to vote for YOUR future — it's voter registration day!

Text : "If you can vote for your favorite couple on Love Island, you can vote in your local elections." Text on a right horizontal suitcase: "register to vote".

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Immigration is at the root of many Americans’ stories – as detention and deportation are at the root of the United States’ policies. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration policy has shaped who can enter, who can belong, and who can be excluded, detained, and deported.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We can see the effects of ICE and Border Patrol in the U.S, but do we know how, when and why this system became the entities we know today? Take a deep dive with us at our FINAL EmpowerEd session next Thursday, September 24 from 6-7pm online. Sign up at bit.ly/EmpowerEd-AIR.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Education technology companies have created a multi-billion-dollar market out of spying on our kids. This doesn’t keep students safe; it chills free speech and increases discrimination against immigrant and LGBTQ+ students. Read our report on education surveillance tech at the link in bio.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your vote has never mattered more. Be informed on measures that impact you and your community. See our full voter guide at ACLUCalAction.org/Vote. [Ad paid for by ACLU California Action Issues Committee. Ad Committee’s Top Funders: ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties]

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vote for the future you want to see. ACLU California Action and ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties have created a state voter guide to help you understand which ballot measures to vote for this year to protect the future of California.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A statement from our executive director Norma Chávez-Peterson…

25 years after the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, the ACLU remembers the victims, their families and all of those impacted.

After the attacks, the ACLU urged the government to respond justly, fairly and in accordance with the safeguards enshrined in our Constitution.

Instead, U.S. leaders tortured and indefinitely detained people, launched illegal wars, surveilled Americans and committed many other horrific human rights violations that destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives at home and abroad.

They also created the Department of Homeland Security, which has been repeatedly used to go after immigrants, protestors and political opponents.

We must apply the lessons of that era to the abuses of power we face today.

As we challenge President Trump’s massive civil liberties and civil rights violations daily, we know that our nation’s true strength lies in its people, in an independent judiciary and in real congressional oversight.

Democracy requires that we rein in presidential power and ensure our government works not for a corrupt few at the expense of many, but for all of us.

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Nick Hidalgo @nickhidalgo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today with @sdicaclu.bsky.social and @eff.org we asked the California Supreme Court to review a court of appeal's decision that threatens to undermine the privacy goals of California's primary automated license plate reader law (SB 34). www.aclunorcal.org/news/aclu-an...

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ACLU California and EFF Ask California Supreme Court to Recognize the Harm of License Plate Surveillance - ACLU of Northern California

The Court of Appeal’s new requirement would undermine the purpose of SB 34 and the California constitutional right to privacy.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Read more here: www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/a...

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Standards for asylum haven’t changed,” says immigration attorney Victor Hernandez. “What’s been changing is the tools that are being used by DHS and by the Department of Justice to put those procedural or substantive roadblocks to getting to that yes.”

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everyone deserves safety, regardless of where they are from. The right to seek asylum is protected under international law – but it is becoming more difficult to receive this status, says NBC 7 San Diego. This June, only 771 cases were approved across the nation, with the denial rate reaching 94%.

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our democracy works best when all voices are represented. Knowing your rights means knowing how to ensure your voice is heard. 📢 Check out our new voting rights page at www.aclu-sdic.org/know-your-ri...

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Read more here: www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/a...

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our democracy works best when all voices are represented. Knowing your rights means knowing how to ensure your voice is heard. 📢 Check out our new voting rights page at aclu-sdic.org/know-your-rights

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ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties @sdicaclu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Slavery must end in all its forms — including forced labor in prisons.

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