ACLU-VA Immigrants Rights’s Portfolio

Virginia ACLU supports extending eligibility to apply for in-state tuition to students granted Deferred Action status who have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for longer than a year and are taxpayers of children of Virginia taxpayers and is monitoring this legislation.

Virginia ACLU supports extending eligibility to apply for in-state tuition to undocumented students who have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for longer than a year and are taxpayers of children of Virginia taxpayers and is monitoring this legislation.

Virginia ACLU supports this bill that would allow victims of prostitution forced into prostitution to seek expungement of the record of charges against them.

Virginia ACLU supports extending eligibility to apply for in-state tuition to undocumented students who have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for longer than a year and are taxpayers of children of Virginia taxpayers and is monitoring this legislation.

Virginia ACLU supports this legislation that would define any minor who engages in prostitution as a child in need of assistance, and would allow any person accused of prostitution to offer as an affirmative defense that they were forced to participate in such activities. Human trafficking of children and immigrants is a growing criminal enterprise and the victims of these crimes should not be treated as criminals by the justice system.

Virginia ACLU is monitoring this bill that expands the requirement to post notices about the trafficking hotline to truck stops.

Virginia ACLU strongly supports this legislation that allows students who have been granted Deferred Action status to qualify for in-state tuition if they have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for three years, and are taxpayers or who are children of Virginia taxpayers.

Virginia ACLU is monitoring this bill that will assure that voters whose first language isn't English will be provided election information in languages other than English.

Virginia ACLU opposes this legislation that would permit the State Board of Elections to utilize information from federal immigration data bases to review voter registration files. In Florida where this program was implemented, it "found" 207 noncitizens registered to vote (.0018% of the electorate of nearly 11.5 million registered voters). At the same time, however, using the system threatened to invite challenges of the voter registrations of thousands of naturalized citizens who became naturalized after applying for and receiving state driver's licenses or other ID linked to the voter registration system or whose last names and birth dates are the same as people in the system. This is because to in order to access SAVE, Florida drew on immigration-related information provided to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). They compared the names of noncitizens in DMV records to the names of registered voters. Election officials then used SAVE to try to eliminate false positives by determining whether the individuals on both lists became citizens after obtaining a driver’s license.

Virginia ACLU supports extending eligibility to apply for in-state tuition to undocumented students who have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for longer than a year and are taxpayers of children of Virginia taxpayers and is monitoring this legislation.

Virginia ACLU strongly supports this legislation that allows students who have been granted Deferred Action status to qualify for in-state tuition if they have graduated from Virginia schools, lived in Virginia for three years, and are taxpayers or who are children of Virginia taxpayers.

ACLU of Virginia supports legislation that provides individuals forced into prostitution a legal defense to prosecution and expungement of records if convicted. Human trafficking of children and immigrants is a growing criminal enterprise and the victims of these crimes should not be treated as criminals by the justice system.

Virginia ACLU is monitoring this bill that expands the requirement to post notices about the trafficking hotline to truck stops.