Bio
Ashoka Mukpo is a Staff Reporter at the ACLU.
Featured work
Mar 3, 2020
TRAP Laws are the Threat to Abortion Rights You Don’t Know About
![A bright grid with family planning imagery and a letter to Congress advocating on behalf of women's rights.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/03/WEB20-TRAP-Laws-Banner-WP-2800x1400-400x400.jpg)
Feb 24, 2020
From Being Tortured in Sri Lanka to the U.S. Supreme Court
![](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/FullBleed_web20-MrTinterviewblog-BlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-400x400.jpg)
Jan 28, 2020
Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”
![A line of Guatemalans arriving outside of the Guatemala City airport after having been deported from the US back to Guatemala.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/01/Guatemala-Asylum-Blog-Image-400x400.jpg)
Nov 25, 2019
In Nicaragua, She Dodged Bullets. Now She's Stuck at the Border.
![](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/11/WEB19-Jullia-Fullbleed-Wordpress-2800x1400-400x400.jpg)
Oct 24, 2019
I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw.
![General view inside the Leona Vicario Federal shelter for asylum seekers in Ciudad Juarez on October 9, 2019, Chihuahua state, Mexico](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/10/WEB19-Asylum-Seekers-Trapped-2800x1400-400x400.jpg)
Aug 16, 2019
Corrections Officer Who Struck Rhode Island Protesters with Pickup Truck Resigns
![Protesters blocking an entrance to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility begin to move as a pickup truck approaches](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-rhode-island-protest-attack-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Nov 16, 2018
ICE Is Targeting Activists in Vermont. And the State’s DMV Has Been Helping Them.
![ICE Raid](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-iceraid-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Oct 12, 2018
Supreme Court Enables Mass Disenfranchisement of North Dakota’s Native Americans
![Supreme Court](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-supremecourt4-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Sep 18, 2018
In Guatemala, a Tireless Search for Parents Separated From Their Children
![Lesly Tayes](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-leslytayes-1160x768-400x400.jpg)