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
![Border Wall Beach](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-wallbeach-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Apr 21, 2017
Homeland Security Secretary Tells Critics To Shut Up. We Won’t.
![Sec. John Kelly](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-sec.johnkelly-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Apr 7, 2017
Local Police Should Just Say No to Federal Agreements That Make Their Officers Part of Trump’s Deportation Force
![Police saluting](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-police-saluting-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Feb 22, 2017
President Trump Is Beginning to Build the Apparatus of Human Misery He Promised During the Campaign
![CBP at Border](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-cbpatborder-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Jun 13, 2016
Border Patrol Union Scorns Award for Agents Who Follow Policy to Avoid Deadly Force
![Border Patrol agent reads the Miranda rights to a Mexican national arrested for transporting drugs](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-borderpatrolofficer-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
May 4, 2016
The Best Way of Stopping Out-of-Control Immigration Prosecutions Is to Avoid Them in the First Place
![Warehoused and Forgotten](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-warehousedandforgotten-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Aug 31, 2015
A Federal Judge Denounced the ‘Egregious Conditions’ of Border Patrol Holding Cells: Will Anything Change?
![CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-cbp-kerlikowske-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
May 19, 2015
Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: “Assault on a Latino by a Latino” Deserves Less Protection
![Woman with bruises](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-domstcviolnc-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
May 5, 2015
Senator John McCain Is Pushing an Extreme Border-Security Bill That Tramples on the Environment
![Border Patrol agents patrol U.S. border with Mexico near Nogales, Arizona.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-cbppatrol-400x400.jpg)