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
Nov 20, 2015
There’s Only One Country That Hasn’t Ratified the Convention on Children's Rights: US
Mar 11, 2015
Fairness for Workers Laboring in the Shadows
Dec 15, 2014
Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported: How Border Patrol Officers Flout the Law and Destroy Lives
Dec 4, 2014
Aquellos que Obama dejó olvidados – y deportó sin una oportunidad de ser escuchados
Dec 4, 2014
The Ones Obama Left Behind - And Deported Without a Chance to Be Heard
Nov 14, 2014
The United States Admits It Crossed a Line. That’s the Least of It.
Oct 24, 2014
Why is the U.S. Deporting Families it Should be Protecting?
Jul 11, 2014
The Kids Aren't Alright: America Fails to Protect Youth in Crisis
Aug 8, 2013
Locked Up: Class-Action Lawsuits Challenge Mandatory Detention of Immigrants