Students will analyze probable cause affidavits from the Operation Lone Star (OLS) migrant trespass program. Under the OLS program, Governor Abbot has deployed DPS officers to South Texas to arrest and jail migrants who have recently crossed into the United States, ostensibly for the purpose of enforcing state misdemeanor trespass law. Students will review probable cause affidavits filed in individual misdemeanor cases initiated under the OLS program, and enter their analysis of each affidavit into a spreadsheet. The analyses collected in the spreadsheet will be used to support the ACLU of Texas’s administrative advocacy opposing the OLS program, which includes open complaints with the Department of Justice alleging racial discrimination in the program.
Organization
ACLU of Texas
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is the leading civil rights organization in the Lone Star State. Since its formation in 1938, the ACLU of Texas has worked in the courts, the legislature, and through public education to protect civil rights and individual liberty.
Project Details
- Website
- http://www.aclutx.org%20
- Project Start Date
October 2022
- Approximate hours of work requested
- A minimum of 5 hours between October 5 and October 14
- Training
- Wednesday, October 5, 6pm-6:45pm (Zoom link via Canvas); training materials will be provided to students who are not able to attend the training
- Skills used
- Document review and analysis
- Project location
- Virtual
- Address
- PO Box 8306, Houston, TX 77288
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://lonestar10-5-22.eventbrite.com