Ahilan T. Arulanantham
Is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, where he litigates cases involving the detention and deportation of immigrants and the material support of terrorism. Prior to joining the ACLU's Southern California office, Mr. Arulanantham was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in El Paso, Texas for two years, where he represented people accused of criminal immigration violations as well as those accused of other federal crimes. Before that, he worked as a fellow at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project in New York, where he worked on cases involving jurisdictional issues in federal immigration law, including INS v. St. Cyr, and also provided legal assistance to dozens of non-citizens detained after the September 11th attacks.
Mr. Arulanantham is a former law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a graduate of Yale Law School, and a graduate of Oxford University, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.
