Tag: ICE
Federal judge rules Trump administration must release detained children from ICE...
“They need to make the sensible choice and release the parents to care for their children.”
As man dies in ICE custody, California moves to ban for-profit...
A Cameroonian immigrant died this week in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California. The man, identified as 37-year-old...
When ICE hit Mississippi, its citizens showed up for immigrant families
The Mississippi immigration raid detained hundreds and left children stranded on the first day of school. It also evoked a massive humanitarian response in a state not traditionally friendly to immigrants.
What ‘abolish ICE’ really means
As I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking a step...
Know your rights: How immigrant rights activists are preparing for looming...
“We tell our community members that no matter what ICE does, don’t open the door.”
Stop immigrant arrests, close the camps, transform immigration policy
Public awareness of the brutal repression against immigrants seeking entry to the United States, the reasons for their migration, and terrorism against...
Poem: ICE storm in the desert
ICE weighing down the roof of the houseICE playing games of cat and mouseA little mouse, a baby in factThey put in...
Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at...
Now Homeland Security’s own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.
How ICE and other DHS agencies mine social media in the...
Through its vast and deeply flawed social media monitoring, the Department of Homeland Security jeopardizes the rights of travelers, immigrants, refugees, and many others.
How ICE is using solitary confinement to punish asylum seekers, including...
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture says solitary confinement should only be used in exceptional circumstances, and defines extended use of solitary as “inhuman and degrading treatment.”
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The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.
Ten uplifting teaching moments from President Fiasco
How to achieve peace in our time, universal happiness, and healthy goodwill towards our neighbor.
Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act introduced in Senate
“This is the bill we have been waiting for. It draws on the latest science to tap the treasure-trove of ocean solutions to accelerate progress on climate change. The outcome? People win, the economy wins, nature wins.”
Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become
If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.
To prevent voter intimidation, Michigan has banned open carry guns at polling places
“The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk’s office(s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear or intimidation for voters, election workers and others present.”