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Immigration
Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds
Trump has a plan to triple ICE’s incarceration capacity, enabling it to detain an additional 84,000 people at any time.
Deportations of US Citizen Children Raise Fears for Mixed-Status Families
“These children were taken without any choice,” the lawyer of a 2-year-old deported citizen said.
Polls Show Most Voters View Trump’s First 100 Days as “Chaotic” and “Scary”
Trump broke his own record of having the lowest presidential approval rating within his first 100 days of office.
Hundreds in Milwaukee Protest Trump FBI’s Arrest of Judge
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on obstruction charges after she allegedly helped an undocumented man evade arrest.
ICE Deports 3 US Citizen Children — Including a Cancer Patient
Authorities reportedly expelled the child without medication in a move a judge said was carried out without due process.
Private Prison Companies Are Raking in Profits From Increased Deportations
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” the executive chairman of GEO Group said shortly after the election.
ICE Admits They Didn’t Have a Warrant When They Abducted Mahmoud Khalil
“ICE has admitted it detained Mahmoud illegally ... to justify it, they are now flat out lying,” said a legal advocate.
Rights Groups Detail “Authoritarian” Reality of US Surveillance in Report to UN
Trump is weaponizing a high-tech surveillance state in violation of international human rights law, experts say.
The Kafkaesque Case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez Is a Warning to Us All
In a clear case of racial profiling, immigration police in Florida unlawfully arrested and held a US-born citizen.
Connecticut AG Warns Airline: Deportation Flights Jeopardize Its Tax Breaks
Democratic lawmakers are also working to expand the state’s sanctuary law to penalize companies for working with ICE.