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Trapped in Texas: How Federal – and Now State – Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas’ Abortion Ban

With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.

Description

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas’ report, Trapped in Texas: How Federal — and Now State — Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas’ Abortion Ban, explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions. Because of the state’s extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required.

Source

https://www.aclu.org/publications/trapped-in-texas-how-federal-and-now-state-immigration-enforcement-traps-people-trying-to-escape-texas-abortion-ban

Language

English

Collections

Criminal Justice and Law Collection, Reproductive Justice Collection

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