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Azadeh Shahshahani

Azadeh Shahshahani is legal and advocacy director at Project South and a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She tweets at @ashahshahani.

USA border, surveillance camera, barbed wire and USA flag, concept picture (Getty Images/Alxey Pnferov)

After 20 years, it’s time to repeal the Patriot Act and begin to dismantle the surveillance state

Azadeh Shahshahani

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Do immigrants in ICE detention centers have any human rights at all?

Azadeh Shahshahani

FILE - In his June 6, 2013 file photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The leak of what purports to be a National Security Agency hacking tool kit has set the information security world atwitter — and sent major companies rushing to update their defenses. Experts across the world are still examining what amount to electronic lock picks. Here's what they've found so far. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The U.S. government has used a section of the Patriot Act after 9/11 to criminalize people of color

Azadeh Shahshahani, Stephanie Guilloud