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Chris Rickerd

Senior Policy Counsel

ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµNational Political Advocacy Department

Bio

Chris Rickerd is a senior policy counsel at the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓÆµ's National Political Advocacy Department who does administrative and legislative advocacy on 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 attorney and then worked for the Miami law firm of Kurzban Kurzban Weinger Tetzeli and Pratt.


Featured work

Jun 27, 2012

Reading the Fine Print: DHS Has Not Ended 287(g) in Arizona

Reading the Fine Print: DHS Has Not Ended 287(g) in Arizona

May 21, 2012

One Year Longer? Why Won’t DHS Protect Its Detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act Right Now?

One Year Longer? Why Won’t DHS Protect Its Detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act Right Now?

May 17, 2012

Inappropriate Appropriations: The House Votes to Waste Taxpayer Money on Unnecessary Border and Immigration Enforcement

Inappropriate Appropriations: The House Votes to Waste Taxpayer Money on Unnecessary Border and Immigration Enforcement

May 10, 2012

U.S. House Votes Show Acceptance of Racial Profiling of Latinos, Minorities

U.S. House Votes Show Acceptance of Racial Profiling of Latinos, Minorities

Apr 24, 2012

Hey, Russell Pearce: Latinos in Arizona Aren't Like Kids Breaking Curfew

Hey, Russell Pearce: Latinos in Arizona Aren't Like Kids Breaking Curfew

Apr 13, 2012

Whitewashing S-Comm's Immigration Enforcement Failures

Whitewashing S-Comm's Immigration Enforcement Failures

Mar 28, 2012

Lampooning Immigration Jails While Exploiting the War on Women: Does the House Immigration Subcommitee Have Any Standards of Decency?

Lampooning Immigration Jails While Exploiting the War on Women: Does the House Immigration Subcommitee Have Any Standards of Decency?

Feb 2, 2012

Urgent: Citizens and Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Need Congress's Attention

Urgent: Citizens and Immigrants with Mental Disabilities Need Congress's Attention

Nov 21, 2011

Sharing Prints: DOJ and FBI Must Take Responsibility for S-Comm Failures, Too

Sharing Prints: DOJ and FBI Must Take Responsibility for S-Comm Failures, Too

Oct 28, 2011

Expanded Immigration Detention: Locking Up Those Yearning to Breathe Free

Expanded Immigration Detention: Locking Up Those Yearning to Breathe Free