Bio
Chris Rickerd is a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union'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
May 15, 2019
New Homeland Security Secretary, Same Anti-Immigrant Agenda
Mar 14, 2019
DHS’s Own Statistics Show That It Is Lying About a Border-Security Crisis
Feb 27, 2019
North Carolinians Voted to End Cooperation With Trump’s Deportation Force. ICE Retaliated.
Dec 28, 2018
How to Fund the Government Without Paying for Trump's Border Wall
Nov 14, 2018
The Outgoing Congress Shouldn’t Reward Trump With More Homeland Security Funding
Sep 26, 2018
Greyhound Is Still Failing to Protect Customers from Border Patrol Abuse
Sep 14, 2018
Trump’s Border Wall Obsession Is a Threat to the Southwest Border Region
Sep 5, 2018
Congress, Don't Throw More Money at Donald Trump’s Weaponized Department of Homeland Security
Aug 16, 2018
Border Officials Are Still Defending Family Separations
Jun 26, 2018
America Doesn’t Need More Border Patrol Agents