by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis | Apr 24, 2026 | elections, ICE, Inequality, Inequality Watch, midterms, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
Congress members of the Hispanic Caucus speak out on their concerns on ICE and Border Patrol, with their first question being: why is an additional $70 billion needed after the record breaking $140 billion allocated last year from the Big Beautiful Bill? The budget for ICE has already increased by 400% within the past year, so speculation as to how these new funds would be used now leans towards intimidation and interference at the upcoming midterm elections. Inequality Watch reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down their most recent interviews from these representatives at the nation’s Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Written by: Stephen Janis
Produced by: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis
Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Taya Graham:
Could new funding slated for ICE be used for a midterm election surprise? We’ll break down what might happen on this episode of our Capitol Hill Inequality Watch video React. Hello, my name is Taya Graham and welcome back to our Capitol Hill React show where we watch comment and analyze developments at the nation’s capital and beyond. It’s a show filtered through the prism of inequality and informed by the intellectual context of analyzing the imperative of raw power and exposing how it corrupts a political power that is supposed to serve we, the people. Now, to start the show, I want to introduce my reporting partner, Stephen Janis. Hello, Stephen. How are you?
Stephen Janis:
Hey, Taya, how are you doing? Good to be back here with you talking about power and politics.
Taya Graham:
Excellent. Well, we appreciate
by Chris Walker | Apr 24, 2026 | Citizens Bank, CoreCivic, De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition, GEO Group, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News
On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators from the Northeast region of the United States gathered outside the Citizens Bank annual shareholders’ meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, to protest against the company’s financial relationships with for-profit prison corporations that operate facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A group of organizations calling themselves the De…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 23, 2026 | Department of Homeland Secuity, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Rashida Tlaib
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) introduced a bill on Thursday to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using warehouses and other similar buildings as detention centers, as the government gears up for a campaign of mass incarceration of immigrants that has been likened to the building of concentration camps. The bill, known as the “Ban Warehouse Detention Act…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Apr 23, 2026 | airports, Banking, ICE, Immigrants, immigration, Op-Ed, Public Schools, Refugees, Stephen Miller, Trump Administration
In the face of deep public opposition, the notorious Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surges that culminated in the siege of Minneapolis have been deep-sixed, at least for now. Yet that doesn’t mean that the most anti-immigrant administration in modern U.S. history isn’t still looking for less dramatic (but at least as effective) methods to pursue its war against immigrants. In fact…
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by Eleanor J. Bader | Apr 22, 2026 | big beautiful bill, budget cuts, caregiving, Child Care, head start, Heritage Foundation, ICE, immigration, mass deportation, mass deportations, Medicaid, News, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Project 2025, Right Wing, Trump Administration
The Heritage Foundation, author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda, has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce. In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” which suggests that U.S.
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by Julia Conley | Apr 22, 2026 | Board of Immigration Appeals, Dilley, Family Detention, ICE, medical neglect, News, Texas, Trump Administration
A lawyer for a family that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas at the insistence of the Trump administration demanded the family’s release late Monday after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.” “A federal court has determined [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’…
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