Bio
Cody Wofsy is Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. His work focuses on limiting state and local entanglement with immigration enforcement, protecting access to asylum, ensuring judicial review, and challenging abusive federal enforcement practices. He has litigated numerous cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including blocking asylum bans, limiting the use of immigration detainers, challenging the Muslim Ban, and curtailing unlawful expedited removal practices. Before his work at the ACLU, Cody was a law clerk to Judge Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Myron Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Featured work
Mar 8, 2019
A Federal Appeals Court Confirms That the Constitution Guarantees Immigrants Access to Courts
Feb 14, 2019
U.S. Border Patrol Detained U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish in Montana
Aug 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions’ Illegal Attacks on Asylum Seekers
Jun 26, 2018
The Supreme Court Ignores the Reality of President Trump’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban
Jan 17, 2018
DHS' Threat to Prosecute Officials of Sanctuary Cities Is Unconstitutional
Oct 3, 2017
We’re Challenging Muslim Ban 3.0, Which Is Just More of the Same
Jun 30, 2017
The Government’s Muslim Ban ‘Guidance’ Is Arbitrary, Illogical, and Discriminatory – Just Like the Ban.
Jun 26, 2017
‘Clear Victory’ for President Trump on Muslim Ban 2.0? Hardly.
