The U.S. has used the Alien Enemies Act just three times in our country’s history. Trump’s action gives himself unchecked power to disappear people without hearings or any semblance of due process.

To create safer communities, ALC provides free legal services and education. We also advance policies that prevent violence and provide alternatives to policing, prison, detention, and surveillance.

A federal court in New Hampshire today blocked President Trump’s executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.

Today, as the new administration issued executive orders targeting immigrant communities, ALC and partners filed a federal lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional attack on birthright citizenship.

Wong Kim Ark’s legacy lives on in countless families, students, community leaders, business owners, and neighborhoods who have joined together to put down unshakeable roots.

Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration over its executive order that seeks to strip away birthright citizenship rights and essential freedoms for all communities.

Broken Stems is a comic project that tells the story of how California prisons tear apart families by voluntarily colluding with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ALC attorney Eileen Kim vulnerably shares experiences and insights she has garnered over the years that makes her the community lawyer she is today.