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Chris Rickerd

Senior Policy Counsel

桃子视频National Political Advocacy Department

Bio

Chris聽Rickerd聽is a senior policy counsel at the 桃子视频's National Political Advocacy Department who does administrative and legislative advocacy on聽border and immigration issues. Prior to joining the ACLU, he spent seven years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco as a law clerk and staff聽attorney and then worked for the Miami law firm of Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli and Pratt.


Featured work

Oct 5, 2017

The House Is Moving Along a Bill Worth $10 Billion That Would Fund Trump鈥檚 鈥楤ig, Beautiful鈥 Wall and Expand His Deportation Force

The House Is Moving Along a Bill Worth $10 Billion That Would Fund Trump鈥檚 鈥楤ig, Beautiful鈥 Wall and Expand His Deportation Force

Apr 21, 2017

Homeland Security Secretary Tells Critics To Shut Up. We Won鈥檛.

Homeland Security Secretary Tells Critics To Shut Up. We Won鈥檛.

Apr 7, 2017

Local Police Should Just Say No to Federal Agreements That Make Their Officers Part of Trump鈥檚 Deportation Force

Local Police Should Just Say No to Federal Agreements That Make Their Officers Part of Trump鈥檚 Deportation Force

Feb 22, 2017

President Trump Is Beginning to Build the Apparatus of Human Misery He Promised During the Campaign

President Trump Is Beginning to Build the Apparatus of Human Misery He Promised During the Campaign

Jun 13, 2016

Border Patrol Union Scorns Award for Agents Who Follow Policy to Avoid Deadly Force

Border Patrol Union Scorns Award for Agents Who Follow Policy to Avoid Deadly Force

May 4, 2016

The Best Way of Stopping Out-of-Control Immigration Prosecutions Is to Avoid Them in the First Place

The Best Way of Stopping Out-of-Control Immigration Prosecutions Is to Avoid Them in the First Place

Aug 31, 2015

A Federal Judge Denounced the 鈥楨gregious Conditions鈥 of Border Patrol Holding Cells: Will Anything Change?

A Federal Judge Denounced the 鈥楨gregious Conditions鈥 of Border Patrol Holding Cells: Will Anything Change?

Jun 5, 2015

Border Patrol Violence Must Stop

Border Patrol Violence Must Stop

May 19, 2015

Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: 鈥淎ssault on a Latino by a Latino鈥 Deserves Less Protection

Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: 鈥淎ssault on a Latino by a Latino鈥 Deserves Less Protection

May 5, 2015

Senator John McCain Is Pushing an Extreme Border-Security Bill That Tramples on the Environment

Senator John McCain Is Pushing an Extreme Border-Security Bill That Tramples on the Environment