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First publicly known ‘Dreamer’ Admitted to State Bar ACLU-NJ CLIENT, SWORN IN BY AG, MAKES HISTORY IN NJ & PA hen Parthiv Patel applied to practice law in New Jersey in 2016, he didn’t W know whether he would be admitted. He could not have imagined that a year and a half later, the at- torney general of New Jersey would adminis- ter his oath to practice law, that the state’s governor would offer to stand as a barrier Hundreds of people marched in Metuchen on Jan. 28 against the detention and deportation of their neighbors. between him and ICE, or that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi On Jan. 24, Parthiv Deportation of Dozens of Indonesians Halted would mention his sto- Patel became the ry during a marathon first publicaly known ACLU-NJ & ACLU WIN EMERGENCY SUIT TEMPORARILY HALTING DEPORTATION OF filibuster-style speech Dreamer to be admitted on the House floor. to both the Pennsylvania INDONESIAN CHRISTIAN NEW JERSEYANS TO LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS On Jan. 24, Patel be- and New Jersey bar. team of attorneys worked through the night, tak- ACLU-NJ Senior Supervising Attorney Alexander came the first publicly ing shifts to file the brief faster. With the safety of Shalom, Judge Salas ruled to halt the deportations known ‘Dreamer’ — a term for residents of this A dozens of longtime New Jersey residents threat- temporarily. country who were brought to the U.S. as children ened by the prospect of religious persecution, the ACLU- The ruling set in motion a five-week timeline to make — to be accepted to the New Jersey bar, with le- NJ rushed to the federal courthouse in Newark seeking to additional arguments concerning the central issue: that gal help from the ACLU of New Jersey. In Dec. halt deportations of Indonesian Christian New Jerseyans the summary deportation of these longtime community 2017, he became the first Dreamer admitted to before the clerk’s office closed at 4. members violates due process and deprives them of the the bar in Pennsylvania, with legal assistance At 3:58 on Friday, Feb. 2, the suit — filed by the opportunity to argue their case for asylum. from the ACLU of Pennsylvania. ACLU-NJ, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and the “These community members, our neighbors, are en- “Today, I stand here with one message: law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison ap- titled to argue their case with the protections of due Dreamers are Americans. We are fifth graders pearing pro bono — was hand-delivered. process, especially when the stakes are life and death,” alongside your children in the school play. We Federal District Court Judge Esther Salas asked for said ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha. are your friends and your colleagues. We are an immediate hearing. By 7 p.m., after arguments from Continued on page 2 your doctors, your accountants, and now, in New Jersey, your lawyers,” Patel said in remarks fol- lowing the swearing-in ceremony in Trenton. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal adminis- tered the oath. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy A Vision is Unveiled for Shrinking seized on the occasion to announce New Jersey’s plan to join a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney Mass Incarceration in New Jersey General Eric Schneider challenging the Trump administration’s rescission of the Deferred Action ew Jersey has a mass • Increasing the minimum wage for Childhood arrivals program, known as DACA. incarceration crisis. It • Fixing the parole system Patel, a graduate of Drexel University Thomas Narose from a range of and ending arrests for minor R. Kline School of Law, is the first publicly known causes, and solving it calls for violations of parole DACA recipient to be admitted to practice law in a range of solutions — which is • Compassionate release of New Jersey. He hopes to use his law degree to why the ACLU-NJ has released elderly people serve others. an ambitious plan: A Vision to • Expanding re-entry and credits “This ceremony comes at a time of increas- End Mass Incarceration in New for time served ing uncertainty and chaos for our Dreamers,” Jersey. • Parole reform, including new Governor Murphy said at the ceremony. “But The vision breaks down steps parole board standards Dreamers like Parthiv are just as American as that could lead New Jersey pris- “Shrinking our prisons and anyone in this state and they should not feel like ons and jails to see their popu- jails means deliberate policy the federal government is working against them. lation shrink by nearly 20,000 changes to stop putting people Dreamers have infinite potential and it would be people. The ACLU-NJ sent in cages. Too many communi- an enormous injustice to push them out of the copies to legislators and the ad- ties have suffered, and too many only country they have ever known.” ministration of Governor Phil people of color have lost their Patel moved to the United States from India at Murphy. futures. It’s time for this slow- age 5 and received DACA in 2012, granting him The vision puts forth a range motion American tragedy to authorization to work in the United States. After of policy reforms small and end,” said ACLU-NJ Executive graduating from law school, Patel passed the large: Director Amol Sinha. bar exams of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania • Full implementation of New Mass incarceration is a defin- in July 2016. His application for bar admission Jersey’s historic bail reform ing civil rights issue of our era. stalled when the Pennsylvania Board of Law • Marijuana legalization and ending arrests for other New Jersey in particular has the worst racial dispar- Examiners notified him that his immigration low-level offenses ity in the imprisonment of Black and white individu- status made him ineligible. Patel appealed with • Changing the culture of prosecutors and judges to als, with Black New Jerseyans arrested at a rate 12 help from the ACLU of Pennsylvania and sev- consider alternatives to overzealous prosecution and times higher than white New Jerseyans, according to eral cooperating attorneys. jail sentences The Sentencing Project. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 ACLU-NJ Civil Liberties Reporter • 1ST QUARTER 2018

A Call for Justice in New Jersey At Long Last, Family TAKING ON THE PREDATORY PRACTICES OF PRISON AND JAIL PHONE VENDORS Planning Funds

o a person locked behind bars, a phone call home is a lifeline. However, to at least one vendor, Securus Restored Technologies, Inc., it’s also an opportunity to wring outsized profits from a captive consumer. T In a blistering friend-of-the-court brief, the ACLU of New Jersey — along with the Immigrant AFTER 8 YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE Rights Clinic of Washington Square Legal Services, Inc.; New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees; VETOES, FAMILY PLANNING FUNDS First Friends of New Jersey and New York; and the Prison Policy Initiative ARE FINALLY RESTORED — argued that New Jersey’s restric- tions on predatory phone rates in pris- he Legislature and Governor Phil Murphy ons do not violate the rights of a private righted a longstanding wrong on Feb. 21, with phone service provider. T the signing of two key bills into law: one appro- Securus claimed in a lawsuit, Securus priating $7.45 million toward family planning services v. Christie, that its loss of hypothetical and another expanding the threshold to receive family profits as a result of New Jersey’s rate planning services under Medicaid. control law amounted to a constitution- Former Governor Chris Christie had issued a line- al affront. The State filed a brief asking item veto axing the $7.45 million funding every year the Appellate Division of the Superior of his governorship, with harmful consequences to Court to dismiss the phone company’s women, men, children, and families across the state. case, which seeks to declare the law He also eliminated the expanded Medicaid funding for regulating prison-based phone rates families. The Assembly passed these two bills on Feb. unconstitutional and enjoin the law’s 15, and the Senate approved them Feb. 1. application. The ACLU-NJ advocated in Trenton and mobilized “It’s wrong to exploit a literal cap- grassroots supporters throughout the Christie ad- tive market, which is exactly why New A provider of phone services in prisons and jails argued that a law ministration to call for the restoration of funding and Jersey put limits on phone rates in pris- capping rates amounts to a constitutional affront. The ACLU-NJ argued Medicaid expansion. ons,” said Liza Weisberg, Catalyst Fellow otherwise. at the ACLU-NJ, who wrote the ACLU- NJ’s brief in the case. “Securus, one of the largest prison phone vendors in the country, is attempting to cloak its greed in the costume of constitutional injury, and we hope the court recognizes the flaws in its arguments.” Operating phone services in prisons and jails is a $1.2 billion-a-year industry dominated by a small num- ber of companies that set rates and fees far in excess of those charged by ordinary commercial providers. Prison and jail phone vendors can charge exorbitant rates because every contract gives them a monopoly in the contracting facility. For example, an inmate who wants to wish her child a happy birthday has a choice: use the facility’s vendor or skip the call. Kickback schemes also drive up calling rates. Because facilities have no incentive to select the vendor that offers the most competitive rates, they’re usually motivated to choose the vendor that promises them the largest kickback, unless a law like New Jersey’s rate-control statute specifically limits it. The case represents a critical test for the movement for phone justice. Now, it falls to states like New The Feb. 21 passage of two key family planning bills allows Jersey to lead the fight against exploitative jail and prison calling rates. more New Jerseyans to get healthy and stay healthy.

“The passage of these bills signifies a milestone for New Jersey: women’s access to reproductive health 1990s amid political instability, domestic unrest, and care is recognized as an essential service, not trivialized Indonesian Christians attacks against Christians. In Central Jersey, a com- as a political symbol,” said ACLU-NJ Policy Counsel Continued from page 1 munity of these asylum seekers grew. Dianna Houenou. “This is a proud moment, but even “The government understands the threats that more, it’s a moment that will make a concrete impact Rounding up community members without notice await our neighbors if they go back to Indonesia, but on people’s health and save people’s lives.” or an opportunity to be heard, based on years-old instead of doing all in its power to keep them safe, A1656 ensures that individuals with incomes up to removal orders that predate a recent uptick in vio- ICE is hastening their likely persecution,” said the 200 percent of the federal poverty level can receive lence against Christians in Indonesia, violates the Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, who has known the people in Medicaid coverage for family planning services such Fifth Amendment right to due process and unconsti- the suit for years through his ministerial work. “They as medical checkups, testing, cancer screening, and tutionally denies the right to seek need the chance to argue in court contraception. protection from persecution. U.S. against their deportation, and they A2134 reinstates a $7.45 million appropriation for law prohibits removal of people need more time.” family planning services that was eliminated by for- who would likely face persecution New Jerseyans have shown vo- mer Gov. Christie first in 2010, and subsequently in or torture, a risk that courts have cal support for the affected commu- every year of his gubernatorial tenure. The elimina- ruled would apply to Christians, nity members. Hundreds of people tion of this funding resulted in the shuttering of family especially those of Chinese de- packed a church and marched in planning service providers, as well as a reduction in the scent, in Indonesia. Metuchen on Jan. 28 in support availability of those services. The roundups that led to the of the families and against the de- suit unfolded even more dramati- tention and deportation of their cally than the filing. Roby Sanger neighbors. and Gunawan Liem were detained Pangemanan and his wife, Parthiv Patel without warning on Jan. 25 after Mariyana Sunarto, along with Continued from page 1 they had dropped off their children Sanger, Liem, and most of the other at school, despite never having plaintiffs in the suit, have U.S. citi- “Parthiv’s long wait for bar admission shows the type missed check-ins with ICE under zen children. of obstacles that Dreamers are up against. At the same an agreement put in place in 2009. “Our Constitution and laws rec- time, his determination and altruistic spirit in the face Harry Pangemanan, a leader in ognize that people must not be of uncertainty demonstrate the best that New Jersey his church who has received ac- Harry Pangemanan, a community jailed or deported without an op- and America have to offer,” said ACLU-NJ Senior colades for leading a team of 3,000 leader who helped rebuild more than portunity to seek court review of Supervising Attorney Alexander Shalom, who worked people in re-building more than 200 200 homes destroyed by Superstorm these harsh actions,” said ACLU- on advocacy related to Patel’s case. homes destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, took refuge in the Reformed NJ Senior Staff Attorney Farrin A 1996 federal statute prohibits states from conferring Sandy, scrambled to take refuge in Church of Highland Park in late Anello. “Nowhere is this right certain professional licenses on undocumented immigrants the Reformed Church of Highland January. more important than in the gov- unless the state affirmatively opts out. Several states, in- Park, co-led by the Rev. Seth Kaper- ernment’s decision to send people cluding New York, Florida, and California, have granted Dale and Rev. Stephanie Kaper-Dale, to avoid detention. to a country where their lives would be in danger.” law licenses to Dreamers. Until the DACA program, these In 2009, dozens of Central Jersey residents, includ- Other courts have recognized that the fundamental young men and women had no path available to apply for ing those in this suit, identified themselves to ICE protections of due process apply to noncitizens, includ- authorization to live and work in the United States. as part of a program giving work authorization and ing in similar ACLU cases heard recently in Detroit, “No one should face barriers to serving the greater stays of deportation to Indonesian Christian commu- Miami, and Los Angeles. A federal court in Boston good because of where they were born,” said Amol nity members in exchange for coming out of the shad- on Feb. 14, a day before the New Jersey suit, ordered Sinha, executive director of the ACLU-NJ. “Parthiv is ows, an agreement ICE worked out with Rev. Kaper- the government to halt the removal of Indonesian a son of New Jersey, and his story fits squarely in the Dale. Thousands of people fled Indonesia in the late Christians as the result of ACLU litigation. American Dream.”

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OP-ED BY TESS BORDEN, ACLU-NJ STAFF ATTORNEY Getting ‘The New Jim Crow’ Unbanned Behind Bars TWO NJ PRISONS BANNED MICHELLE ALEXANDER’S EXAMINATION OF MASS INCARCERATION AND RACIAL INJUSTICE. HOURS AFTER AN ACLU-NJ LETTER, THE BAN WAS LIFTED.

ichelle Alexander dedicates her book The New Jim Crow to the people In December, the ACLU-NJ released “A Vision to End Mass Incarceration in New who have been swept up by America’s racist criminal justice system. “You Jersey,” a roadmap for criminal justice reform in our state. We proposed concrete steps M may be locked up or locked out of mainstream society, but you are not in a number of areas — from reducing the number of people entering jails and pris- forgotten,” it reads. ons to reforming the culture of prosecutors’ offices and rethinking release. These steps Now, all prisoners across New Jersey can read her words. could reduce the number of people in New Jersey jails and prisons by 19,750 people, or The ACLU of New Jersey learned that The New Jim Crow was banned as a matter more than half. We believe this would ultimately make the system more racially just. of official policy in at least two prisons: New Jersey State Prison and Southern State New Jersey has already shown it can be a leader, not only in racial disparities, but Correctional Facility. On January 8, we sent a letter to the Department of Corrections in meaningful criminal justice reform. Last January, New Jersey effectively elimi- Commissioner telling him not only that the ban was un- nated money bail, creating a presumption of release for constitutional as a violation of the First Amendment, the vast majority of defendants and ensuring that people but also that it was a deeply disturbing policy, especially don’t languish in jail awaiting trial simply because they since New Jersey has the worst racial disparities in incar- are poor. ceration in the entire country. One year in, bail reform is a success. By October, Hours after receiving our letter, the DOC announced county jail populations had dropped by 17 percent. it was lifting the ban. It further committed to review its Crime rates are largely the same, if not lower. People policy and all current lists of banned materials for appro- who would have risked losing their jobs for missing work priate revision. We commend the DOC’s quick action, but because they couldn’t make bail are now able to resume even as we celebrate the return of The New Jim Crow to their lives. prison shelves, we must not be distracted from the work In one case, Tyler, an automotive technician in that remains to be done. Eatontown, got into an argument that escalated, and Lifting the ban in no way undoes the reality that made After learning that Michelle Alexander’s seminal book was he was charged with assault. Under New Jersey’s it so appalling in the first place. New Jersey still incarcer- banned in at least two New Jersey prisons, the ACLU-NJ told old system, his bail would have exceeded $100,000. ates its Black residents at a rate 12 times higher than the Department of Corrections that the ban was not only Instead, because he was released pending the resolu- its white residents, making New Jersey the most racially unconstitutional but also a deeply disturbing policy in light tion of his case — probation, no jail time — his live- unjust incarcerator in the United States. Communities of of New Jersey’s record racial disparities in incarceration. lihood was not in jeopardy. Watch a video about his color are still being targeted by the police. Families are story: www.aclu-nj.org/bailvideo being torn apart by incarceration. And tens of thousands of New Jerseyans are living In the new year, the ACLU-NJ has continued working toward policies to tackle mass with the collateral consequences of conviction, blocked from accessing the voting booth, incarceration and lessen our shameful racial disparities. These policy goals include le- jury service, public benefits, housing and employment opportunities, and literally thou- galizing marijuana, ending the routine use of solitary confinement, and putting in place sands of other rights and benefits. more humane conditions of parole, among many others. In our letter, we asked for corrective action and a response from the DOC by January The ACLU-NJ firmly believes that decarceration efforts cannot be successful unless 24. We’re pleased the DOC didn’t need that long. But New Jersey policymakers should they also address systemic racism. The New Jim Crow is a masterwork on confronting take this as a call to engage in a long-term, broad effort toward decarceration, with a the racism of mass incarceration. Rather than being banned, the book should be recom- goal of ending racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. mended reading for all state officials — and all New Jerseyans.

Mass Incarceration TRIBUTES Continued from page 1 In honor of Farrin Anello & Bob Kopp In honor of Greg Dell’Omo In memory of Pamela Mandel The vision, authored collaboratively by more than Edward & Susan Apuzzo, Robert Sherrell, Jiacan Yuan Nicholas Dell’Omo Barbara Azizo, Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Canastra, Rebekah Caplan, a dozen ACLU-NJ staff members over the course of Charlotte Chefitz, Ellen Coburn, Miriam Cooper, Estelle & Paul In memory of Larry Ascher more than a year, lays out a plan for dramatically In honor of Joan & Peter Eilbott Finkel, Victoria Gomperts, Stephen Goodman, Paula Kaplan, Seidler Broekman & Blair Jennifer Lassus Wherley & Associates PC Judie & Jerry Lax, Annette & Harold Littman, Dena Mandel, reducing the incarcerated population, from stopping Jonnie Marks, Janet Pennisi, Ted & Lynne Rudolph, Vicki Semel, In honor of Frank Askin unnecessary encounters with police by decriminaliz- In memory of Chester Feldman Linda & Richard Sherman, Shary & Gary Skoloff, Jill Slattery Jerald Baranoff ing low-level offenses to removing barriers that have Rhonda & Susan Feldman In honor of Rob & Aileen Mitchell made parole harder to attain. Some, like strengthen- In honor of the badass residents of Metuchen Joyce Mitchell ing bail reform, make intuitive sense; others, like in- Todd Pagel In honor of Jeff Feldman & Ana Gantman Matt & Diane Feldman creasing the minimum wage, take a holistic approach. In honor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park In memory of Samuel Haskell Baron, Ph.D. Rose & Stephen Oosting New Jersey has a record of instituting pioneering Jane Johnston In honor of Gail Forman criminal justice reforms. Jan. 1 marked the one-year an- Stacey Cahn In honor of Rozz Rusinow niversary of our state’s historic pretrial justice reform, In honor of Laurie Beacham Nina Rosenstein Matthew Stern In honor of Elizabeth Freed which largely ended money bail. Dec. 17 marked the 10- Anne Gordon & David Watson In honor of Len & Roberta Schoenberg In memory of Puneet Bhandari year anniversary our state’s abolition of the death pen- Eleanor Leahy Narendra Bhandari alty. While New Jersey has seen recent declines in its In honor of Charlie Hoover Among Friends Lunch Group In honor Richard Seclow incarcerated population, our state’s prison population In honor of Ché Blackwood Norman McNatt has increased 278 percent from 1975 to 2015. Amber Polivka In honor of Jersey Cider Works The ACLU-NJ is working with Newark’s Aljira gal- In memory of Donna Bocco Ian Cameron In honor of Alexander Shalom lery to stem mass incarceration through the exhibit Ray & Linda DiGrazia Elena & Nicholas Delbanco “Duron Jackson: The Missing,” which captures the In honor of William Kay In honor of Adam & Jayu Shanker human toll communities face as a result of dispro- In honor of Michael Bohn Joseph Wagner Ann Fox Adrian Shanker portionately criminalizing people of color, especially In memory of Edward Kessler In honor of Bill Singer young Black men. In memory William Buckman Nicki Kessler Deborah Spitalnik & John Weingart “The only way to close the Pandora’s box opened by Frederic Gross In honor of Grey & Max Knudsen ‘tough-on-crime’ policies is to reject the mindset at In honor of Debra Burns & William P. Malloy In memory of Irvin Solondz Andrew Witten the heart of them, which has failed in deterring crime Kathleen Bennett & Tom Malloy Roni & Brian Bamforth, Elizabeth Sheil, Eleanor Sontag and in bringing about justice” said ACLU-NJ Deputy In memory of Rosemary Ciabattari In memory of Sam Liss In memory of Carol Wild Legal Director Jeanne LoCicero. “That means recon- Elyse Terk Maria Grieco-Cottrell Ashley Steinhart, Susan Goodstadt-Levin sidering what we consider a crime, rethinking how severely a person should be punished, and enabling In honor of Kelli Comegys In honor of Jack Marks In honor of Rabbi Mary Zamore & Terje Lande Julia Whall & Zachary Wolfman Larry Marks Catherine Colinvaux people to build meaningful lives after prison.” The national ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice plans to release blueprints for decreasing the prison populations of all 50 states, including a blueprint for Tributes are contributions made to honor or remember special friends, family, colleagues and occasions. New Jersey in 2018. To have your tribute appear in the Civil Liberties Reporter, please contact the ACLU-NJ office at: 973-642-2086 or Read the mass incarceration vision online: P.O. Box 32159, Newark, NJ 07102. www.aclu-nj.org/massincarcerationvision

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PROFILE: LIGHTS OF LIBERTY

Meet Jason Camilo, One of the ACLU-NJ’s 2018 Lights of Liberty Honorees

ason Camilo grew up hearing stories of Because immigration law is fundamentally ad- him family’s flight from Cuba. He didn’t ministrative, Camilo doesn’t get to make argu- J realize until much later that his family’s ments about civil rights and constitutional guar- experiences were the exception in immigration, antees in court, despite large intersections that are Camilo Profile not the norm. “muted” in immigration law, as Jason describes it. His parents impressed upon him early the The ACLU has been more than willing to stand idea that anyone could come to the U.S. But up to the Trump administration, and more people Jason Camilo, ACLU-NJ Lights of Liberty Honoree since 1966, Cubans alone are entitled to a U.S. are recognizing the ACLU’s work, he said. green card after one year of residency. “What’s changed with Trump, more than any- For Camilo, who began practicing immigra- thing else, is restricting immigrants’ rights and tak- tion law in 2004 at his own firm immediately ing away what they’re entitled to,” he said. “It’s a out of law school, fighting for people to stay in process that started under the second Bush admin- this country was a way to extend to others what istration, but it’s achieved new lows with the Trump America had promised him. administration’s erosion of fundamental rights.” “I now understand how lucky I am to have He’s determined to fight back, and that passion parents who were able to do that,” he said. “My to help people keeps him going. What also keeps parents raised me with a strong upbringing of him going is the knowledge that he’s not engaging protecting individual liberties and a deep ap- Supporters, including Jason Camilo, rally for Abdul outside the federal in this work alone — he has not just fellow advo- preciation for American democracy.” building in Newark last April. cates backing him up, but members of the public. A graduate of Temple University Beasley In April last year, dozens of people came out to School of Law, he’s represented thousands of clients from dozens of countries, includ- the federal building in Newark to rally for the rights of Abdul, a man they had never ing nearly everywhere in South and Central America, most of Europe and Asia, and seen, let alone met. about half of the countries in Africa. “I told the crowd at the rally that I would show pictures of the demonstration to Since March 2017, he’s worked with the ACLU of New Jersey in fighting for the re- Abdul so he would know people in America cared about him. He didn’t understand lease of Abdul, a man from Afghanistan who entered the country on a special visa for the pictures at first, but once he understood their meaning, I could tell it really meant Afghan citizens who put their lives in danger by working for the U.S. Armed Forces. He something to him,” said Camilo. first connected with the ACLU-NJ through his role in coordinating the deployment of The ACLU-NJ will honor Camilo with the Legal Leadership Award at the annual lawyers to Newark Liberty International Airport following the Trump administration’s Lights of Liberty Awards Dinner on May 9. first Muslim Ban in January 2017. When he learned of Abdul’s detention, he stepped into action and filed paperwork to become Abdul’s immigration attorney. Abdul’s detention, which began March 13, 2017, is unlike anything he’s seen in CIVIL LIBERTIES REPORTER immigration proceedings. “Instead of helping him and giving him food, we put him in a jail cell. I’ve never Published Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall by the American Civil Liberties Union of New seen someone who worked for the government be treated as badly as Abdul has,” said Jersey, P.O. Box 32159, Newark, NJ 07102 Camilo. “But Abdul has dealt with his detention better than most, especially when he 973-642-2086 n [email protected] n www.aclu-nj.org knows the stakes could include death, or worse.” ISSN: 0009-7934

The Trump administration’s assaults on civil liberties are far-ranging and devastating. LIGHT THE TORCH OF LIBERTY But the fight is still on, and — as promised — we’ve taken the administration to court again and again. On May 9, hear ACLU President Susan Herman on how the ACLU is working to preserve our cherished civil rights and liberties. Help the ACLU of New Jersey build a safe and free future by investing in its mis- sion. Defend liberty by making a tax deductible gift to the ACLU-NJ Foundation. For more information on the many ways to give, call us at 973-642-2086. Visit our Join Us website to make a gift today: www.aclu-nj.org/donate THE LIGHTS OF LIBERTY AWARDS DINNER Wednesday, May 9, 2018 RequestedAddress Service NJ 07102 Newark, P.O. Box 32159 Union of New Jersey American Civil Liberties

FEATURING Remarks from Susan Herman, President of the National ACLU Board of Directors

Entertainment by the Newark Arts High School Jazz Band

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Dreamer admitted to practice law, with ACLU-NJ help...... 1 Permit No. 6593 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage ACLU-NJ suit halts deportation of longtime New Jerseyans...... 1 Newark, NJ

A vision to dramatically reduce mass incarceration...... 1 PAID Challenging a company’s (bogus) claims of a right to price-gouge in jails...... 2 After years of vetoes, family planning funds restored...... 2 Prisons banned book on prisons’ racial injustices — until ACLU-NJ objected...... 3