Perhaps it’s time to take the word “American” out of ACLU. The once-famed American Civil Liberties Union is all-in on defending illegal aliens, even to the point where it has a formerly “undocumented” top official on the staff whose sole job is to combat efforts to enforce US immigration laws.
The aggressiveness on this issue by an organization ostensibly devoted to protecting the individual rights of American citizens is startling. On May 8, ACLU chapters in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, California’s San Diego and Imperial Counties, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas issued a travel advisory for Oklahoma after the state passed a new law making it a crime for an illegal alien to enter its domain. The law also criminalizes re-entering the state for those who have been ordered out of the US.
The triumph of pure politics over legal standing is evident from the…