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Anti-immigrant policies have no place in a state that values compassion and hospitality. It’s no secret that West Virginia continues to decline in population, why then would we ever want to turn people away from our state?

Recently, a 17-year-old undocumented teenager from Central America was detained in Texas after trying to cross the border into the United States.  Soon afterward, she learned she was pregnant and asserted that she wanted an abortion.  Jane Doe, as she is named in court filings, required permission from a judge to obtain her abortion because of the parental consent laws in Texas.  Jane’s Due Process, a nonprofit that works with pregnant minors in the state, helped her to successfully get a judge’s permission and collect funds for the procedure.  The abortion was scheduled for the end of September, before her second trimester would begin.

In this episode, Jamie and Eli Baumwell (ACLU-WV Policy Director) give an update on what the ACLU-WV has been up to. We talk about DACA, ICE raids and arrests, your rights during an ICE raid, “nuisance” ordinances proliferating around West Virginia, writing angry FOIA requests, federal judges writing footnotes about Dr. Evil, and more.

This week on Civil Fights, Jamie and Noah give a legal update on Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban and which parts of it are now being enforced, following the Supreme Court’s intervention.

We have entered a dark time in America. The Constitution and the basic principles of human decency that form its basis are under assault from the highest office in the land. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at demonizing a religious minority