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ICE Is Monitoring and Targeting Immigration Activists
Homeland Security officials monitored hundreds of protests against family separations last year.
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Central American Women Experience More Trauma After Seeking Asylum
Detained asylum seekers are often subject to sexual assault and bullying from U.S. immigration authorities.
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Supreme Court Set to OK Census Citizenship Question
Activists fear adding the question will deter immigrants from participating in the census, leading to vast undercounts.
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Trump Reportedly Considered Detaining Kids at Guantánamo
Advocacy groups that have long called for the closure of Guantánamo called the proposal “beyond appalling.”
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Johns Hopkins Students Enter Week Three of Protesting ICE Contracts and Policing
Students at Johns Hopkins are demanding the cancellation of contracts with ICE, among other demands.
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Health Suffers Among Asylum Seekers in Crowded Border Shelter
Most refugees get sick during their journeys due to insufficient food, a lack of clean water and poor sanitation.
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Amicus Briefs Flag Key Themes for the Supreme Court’s Census Citizenship Case
Together, the briefs paint a powerful picture of how deeply the adverse effects of a citizenship question would cut.
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What Happens If Trump Breaks All the Laws?
Trump views the system of checks and balances as a personal affront, an obstacle to his ambitions.
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ACLU Demands Investigation Into Pro-Trump Fascist Militia Detaining Migrants
The ACLU cited visual evidence on social media that show the right-wing militia group detaining dozens of migrants.
![Members of the migrant caravan walk past a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 2, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/2019_0418-border-patrol-400x300.jpg)
Good Samaritans Punished for Offering Lifesaving Help to Migrants
The number of people federally charged with smuggling and harboring migrants has jumped nearly a third.