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![A National Guard officer looks around at migrant families after they crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. on May 5, 2022, in Roma, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1101-operation-lone-star-400x300.jpg)
Greg Abbott Is Still Prosecuting Migrants Under a Bogus Disaster Declaration
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” sets a dangerous precedent for authoritarian attacks on migrants.
![A Venezuelan migrant holds a child in her arms upon arriving at an improvised shelter in Panama City, on October 23, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/10/2022_1025-venezeulan-asylum-seekers-400x300.jpg)
AOC, Pressley Slam Biden for Using Title 42 to Expel Venezuelan Asylum Seekers
Democrats and progressives are frustrated that Biden officials are expanding Title 42 rather than ending it.
![Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference on the island of Matlacha on October 5, 2022, in Matlacha, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/10/2022_1012-ron-desantis-400x300.jpg)
The Treasury Department Is Investigating DeSantis’s Migrant Transporting Stunt
The Treasury Department will audit Florida's spending to see if federal COVID relief money funded the political stunt.
![House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs speaks during a news conference about immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border on March 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_0930-border-crisis-400x300.jpg)
Republicans Are Lying About Fentanyl to Scare Voters
By scapegoating migrants as a source of drugs at the border, demagogues obscure facts with a cloud of xenophobia.
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Migrants Tricked Into Martha’s Vineyard Flight Sue DeSantis and Other Officials
Consent forms provided to the migrants included information in English that was not translated into Spanish.
![Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) speaks at a labor rally on April 24, 2022 in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_09-19-aoc-rally-400x300.jpg)
Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Cruz for Lying About Martha’s Vineyard Stunt
“If it’s one thing we can count on you for, it’s being una vergüenza,” or an embarrassment, she said.
![A flood-affected girl eats at a relief shelter in northwest Pakistan's Charsadda](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_0902-climate-refugees-400x300.jpg)
We Need a World Without Borders on Our Increasingly Warming Planet
Mass migration is an outcome of the crises of capitalism, conquest and climate change, says Harsha Walia.
![Supporters of the VISION Act urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass AB 937, on June 21, 2022, in Sacramento, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/visionact-400x300.jpg)
Disappointed in Biden’s Inaction, Immigrant Rights Advocates Look to the States
In California, the VISION Act would prohibit collaboration with ICE to remove people being released from prison or jail.
![Immigrant Rights Groups Are Suing LexisNexis for Helping ICE Target Communities](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/SEG3-notechforice-amazon-sign_SMALL-400x300.jpg)
Immigrant Rights Groups Are Suing LexisNexis for Helping ICE Target Communities
The data broker has collected personal information on millions of people and sold it to government entities like ICE.
![Immigrant detainees eat lunch at the GEO Group-managed Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013, in Adelanto, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0812-detainees-400x300.jpg)
Detained Immigrants in California Strike Over $1 a Day Pay, Working Conditions
GEO Group is retaliating against the jailed immigrants, even as it denies that an ongoing strike is underway.