by Austin C. McCoy | Aug 8, 2026 | AI, big tech, data centers, Deportation, Detention Centers, grassroots organizing, News Analysis, Surveillance, Technofascism
On July 13, residents of Neptune Township, New Jersey, voted to ban AI data centers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jails from being built in their town. While protests against the construction of AI data centers and ICE facilities have increased since Donald Trump’s reelection, the Neptune Township ordinance is the first in the U.S. reflecting a connection between the deportation…
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by Brian Dolinar | Dec 7, 2025 | 287(g) program, grassroots organizing, ICE Detainees, Immigrant Jails, mass deportations, Missouri, News
For more than 200 days, Fernando Herrera-Cruz has been sitting in a county jail in central Missouri on immigration charges. The conditions in the jail are “very bad,” Herrera-Cruz told Truthout, with the help of a translator. “There are some guards who are very racist towards immigrants.” Herrera-Cruz, who is 25 years old, left Mexico to come to the United States to work with his brother for…
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