From Japanese American Incarceration to the China Initiative, Discrimination Against AAPI Communities Must End

Our institutions and our country must live up to our American ideals and values, and stop the cycle of profiling and discrimination.

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Giving Together for a Stronger Kentucky

We're celebrating Giving Tuesday 2021 by supporting partners throughout the state.

By Charlene Buckles

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Dreamers are Kentuckians in every way but on paper. It’s time to change that.

"I have made the U.S. my home in my heart, and in all that I do. Yet, the U.S. does not treat me — or protect me — as one of its own." Kentucky families belong together and Dreamers deserve a pathway to citizenship. Being born outside the commonwealth does not make Kentuckians any less Kentuckian.

By Omar Salinas-Chacón

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Weekly Roundup - Feb. 2 - Feb. 8

The ACLU team had a busy week in Frankfort during the fifth week of the 2020 legislative session. Here are some specific highlights about key pieces of legislation we are following and what our team accomplished the week of February 2 to February 8.

Weekly Roundup Feb 7

Trump Administration Threatens to Revoke Louisville Law Enforcement Funding Over Immigration Reforcement

The Department of Justice issued letters to 29 jurisdictions, including Metro Louisville, threatening to withhold federal law enforcement grant money over these jurisdictions’ supposed non-compliance with a federal law that prohibits policies that restrict the sharing of “information regarding . . . citizenship or immigration status.”

State of Liberty

ACLU Issues Texas ‘Travel Advisory’

By Amber Duke

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Know Your Rights-Immigration Raids

By Amber Duke

WATCH: I AM A Kentuckian Video

By Amber Duke

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Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American in KY Oct. 27-29

By Amber Duke

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