Bio
Sarah Mehta is a Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU. Previously, Sarah worked as the detention fellow with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan. From 2009-2011, Sarah was the Aryeh Neier fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, focusing on the rights of people with mental disabilities in the U.S. immigration system. While a law student, she was a student director of the prisoner rights clinic and worked on capital and criminal defense cases with the New Haven public defender office, as well as working in the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She has also worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Mississippi and for civil rights attorney Mary Howell. Prior to law school, Sarah was a Fulbright scholar in India working on minority rights. She is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
Featured work
Sep 20, 2024
How Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care
Feb 8, 2024
Senate Rejects Deal Threatening Protections for Asylum Seekers
Nov 2, 2023
White Supremacy is Fueling Extreme Anti-Immigrant Policy in Texas
Sep 11, 2018
Why Are So Many Indigenous People in Montana Incarcerated?
Feb 13, 2017
Are U.S. Agents Carrying Out Trump’s Muslim Ban at Airports in Canada and Ireland? We Aim to Find Out.
Dec 22, 2016
After 10-year Legal Battle, a Victory for Undocumented Workers Injured on the Job
Sep 19, 2016
At the UN Refugee Summit, Americans Should Examine Our Treatment of People Seeking Asylum — Not Just on a Boat in the Mediterranean, but at Our Border
Jul 26, 2016
Will the 9/11 Defendants Ever Get a Fair Trial?