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
Oct 5, 2017
The House Is Moving Along a Bill Worth $10 Billion That Would Fund Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Wall and Expand His Deportation Force
Apr 21, 2017
Homeland Security Secretary Tells Critics To Shut Up. We Won’t.
Apr 7, 2017
Local Police Should Just Say No to Federal Agreements That Make Their Officers Part of Trump’s Deportation Force
Feb 22, 2017
President Trump Is Beginning to Build the Apparatus of Human Misery He Promised During the Campaign
Jun 13, 2016
Border Patrol Union Scorns Award for Agents Who Follow Policy to Avoid Deadly Force
May 4, 2016
The Best Way of Stopping Out-of-Control Immigration Prosecutions Is to Avoid Them in the First Place
Aug 31, 2015
A Federal Judge Denounced the ‘Egregious Conditions’ of Border Patrol Holding Cells: Will Anything Change?
May 19, 2015
Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: “Assault on a Latino by a Latino” Deserves Less Protection
May 5, 2015
Senator John McCain Is Pushing an Extreme Border-Security Bill That Tramples on the Environment