The lack of critical coverage of Biden’s new announcement suggests that corporate media will no longer be as concerned about “kids in cages” now their preferred candidate is in the White House. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
A new Netflix docuseries, “Immigration Nation,” explores the operations behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Trump administration. Directed by Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, the six-part series was filmed entirely during ...
It looks like the president’s goal is to make America white. When President Donald Trump first began talking about ending “chain migration” in 2017, media outlets pointed out that his own parents-in-law had likely obtained lawful ...
ICA Farmville already has a reputation for overcrowding and poor sanitation. Last year the private ICE prison was hit with an outbreak of mumps, a classic disease of overcrowding and poor sanitation. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
“The Court finds that the conditions of detention in CBP holding cells, especially those that preclude sleep over several nights, are presumptively punitive and violate the Constitution.” An Arizona-based US judge ruled against Customs and ...
“No one should ever use our nation’s security as a political weapon, let alone the commander in chief” – New York Attorney General Letitia James The Department of Homeland Security recently stopped accepting enrollments by ...
“The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations — activities whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these ...
“As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE” – Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Rep. Elijah Cummings. Rep. ...
“AB 32 is the most progressive and far-reaching bill on immigration detention in this country.” In a big win for prison reform and immigration advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday a ...
“This message is not about policy or political parties. It is about human decency and care. We are asking people to sign on to love – and it is working.” In support of the Latinx ...
680 workers from seven food processing units were detained by ICE last Wednesday in Mississippi. (Peoples Dispatch) At least 377 people remain in detention in Mississippi, U.S. on Wednesday, August 7, after the Immigration and ...
“The workers alleged that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday activities at work, such as using bathrooms, taking ...
Under U.S. refugee laws, a political asylee has the right to stay in the United States if they would be tortured, killed or both back home. (By Mario Garcia, The Conversation) The ongoing threat of ...
“The public doesn’t have a way of controlling what information the government has on them. And now there’s this rapidly advancing technology, with very few guidelines and protections for people, putting all of this information ...
Recent examples abound of the U.S. government detaining citizens after falsely accusing them of breaking immigration laws. (By Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta, The Conversation) We are law professors who have studied civil ...
“Companies that make money from the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policy and a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons people of color are going to pay taxes like any other corporation.” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) ...
“How could you not do it, living in a place where people are dying by the dozens around you every year. How could you not respond?” The controversial and high-profile case of a humanitarian aid ...
“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger, the system is broken.” The Trump administration is reportedly planning on keeping more than a thousand detained children in a military base that ...
“I know this border. The president is doing the right thing, he’s right on this issue, and if he asked, I’d go work for him in a heartbeat” – Mark Morgan President Trump announced the ...
“Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held…will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!” House committee chairs have requested documents from the White House and Department of Homeland Security ...
“Strikes me as just a frustration of not being able to solve a problem. Honestly, it wasn’t Secretary Nielsen’s fault.” In the past four days, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson resigned, U.S. Secret ...
The ACLU is looking into reports of abusive treatment of transgender women and gay men at an ICE detention center near Chaparral, New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) authored a letter released on ...
Scores of Telugu-speaking students, 8 recruiters among those arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. (NewsClick) At least 200 Indian students and eight student recruiters of Indian origin have been arrested and several others ...
One sheriff in Alabama is facing questions after he personally pocketed $1.5 million in funds intended to feed detainees at ICE immigration centers. Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County, Alabama lost his re-election bid this ...
“The agents told me I wasn’t in a position to be asking for anything and that they didn’t tell me to come to the United States.” A five-month-old migrant baby from Honduras nearly died during ...
After being detained for three weeks, a Philadelphia man just barely escaped being deported to Jamaica in a case of mistaken identity. ICE almost deported Peter Sean Brown, a 50-year-old American citizen born in Philadelphia to ...
“He would tell me that if immigration ever found out, my son and I would be deported instantly.” A young Honduran woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a staff member at Berks Family Residential Center ...
The troop deployment would be the first time that any U.S. president has turned to active duty forces of this magnitude to counter approaching refugees to the U.S. border. On Tuesday, U.S. Northern Command chief ...
Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. (ProPublica) One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as ...
On the 55th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III has urged the Trump administration to reunite immigrant families separated under Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Speaking in the company of ...
Activists of the Occupy movement push Philadelphia mayor to end Preliminary Arrest Reporting Service Agreement with ICE; protesters seek to tackle the stop-and-frisk program next. The occupation of City Hall since protesters moved the encampment ...
A Mexican journalist and his son risk deportation due to his criticism of the U.S. government’s immigration policy. Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez-Soto, and his son, Oscar, are currently facing serious ordeals at the hands of ...
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reunited around 1,442 of the 2,551 separated migrant children with their parents in immigration detention by the July 26 deadline, as mandated by a federal judge in ...
Featured Image: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA – 7) [Left] and Congressman Adam Smith (WA – 9) [Right] via house.gov Washington’s 9th District United States Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal extended her endorsement to Democratic incumbent Adam ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson) With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal immigration. We thought it would be helpful to take a step back and look ...
The Occupy I.C.E. protests occurring in cities throughout America have all garnered significant media attention, and the protests in Portland have been particularly successful in limiting the ability of I.C.E. agents to follow through with ...
The Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis is protesting Trump’s immigration policies in an innovative way. They placed the statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-link fence outside the church building. The dean ...
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump signed an executive order ending the policy that has separated children from their parents when they have illegally entered the US southern border. The new bill permits parents and children ...
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” (ProPublica, by Ginger Thompson) The desperate sobbing ...
As the Trump administration and its allies in law enforcement and border patrol continue to escalate tensions at the U.S. – Mexico border, thousands of children are caught in the crossfire. Children of immigrants fleeing ...
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January 2017 instructing immigration officers to detain and arrest any and all undocumented immigrants in the United States. This order has had far-reaching and disastrous effects for ...
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“This is what we’re gearing up for this year and what you’re going to see more and more of is these large-scale compliance inspections, just for starters.” Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday ...
Rosamaria Hernandez is recovering in federal custody after her ambulance was stopped by border patrol agents in Texas. (Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett) “Morally bankrupt & unspeakably cruel.” “Ruthless & relentless.” “Disgusting.” “Trump’s deportation force in ...
ICE agents seek greater data mining ability with help from private sector. (Reveal News, By Patrick Michels / August 25, 2017) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for help from the private sector to gather ...
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