ACLU of Rhode Island Files Brief Challenging Federal Immigration Mandates on Receipt of Law Enforcement Funds
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 14 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island issued the following news release:
The ACLU has filed a "friend of the court" brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston in support of a legal challenge brought by the cities of Providence and Central Falls to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy conditioning the receipt of federal law enforcement funds on municipal collaboration with immigration officials.< . . .
The ACLU has filed a "friend of the court" brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston in support of a legal challenge brought by the cities of Providence and Central Falls to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy conditioning the receipt of federal law enforcement funds on municipal collaboration with immigration officials.< . . .