When Juan was granted bond on August 6, it looked as if he would soon be freed from a Brooklyn immigration jail to return to his 6-year-old daughter, 10-month-old son, his partner, and his job at a grocery store. Since he has no criminal record and support from his church, employer and family, the Colombian native was required to post only the minimum bond: $1,500.
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Two months after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the White House released the text of a sprawling executive order allegedly designed to ensure the integrity of U.S. elections. It demanded that states share their voter rolls with federal officials; mandated onerous proof-of-citizenship rules for people registering to vote (rules which didn’t include drivers’ licenses as valid forms of ID for…
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An Iranian professor for the University of Oklahoma was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday after spending three days in detention for what the agency has deemed “standard questioning.” Vahid Abedini is an assistant professor of Iranian Studies for the university. On Saturday, he was on his way to the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting, in Washington…
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On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.” Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) helicopters will undoubtedly be circling my neighborhood looking for roofers and landscapers this “Veterans Day,” just as they have been for weeks. In the U.S., you’re an easy mark when you have brown skin and your job demands that you labor out in the open. My town, located just outside of Chicago, has been crawling with ICE agents or soldiers (the…
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An agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with ensuring that electronic messages on the devices of its workforce comply with public records laws admitted last week that it has stopped using software to do so. Instead, ever since April, workers have been told to take screenshots on their own devices in order to abide by the law — a shift in policy that has a high…
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