Since September, Chicago has been an epicenter of the Trump administration’s nativist anti-immigration push as well as some of the fiercest resistance to it. On a daily basis, we’ve seen reports of ICE snatching people off the streets, as well as locals responding with neighborhood patrols, de-arrests, and communities taking on tear gas in standoffs against the government. For the last six…
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During a second-quarter earnings call in August, an executive with the GEO Group ticked off a list of the private prison company’s accomplishments so far this year. These included securing contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for expanded immigrant detention centers in New Jersey, Michigan, Georgia, and California; working to convert six facilities — most of them former prisons…
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This week, Rep. Rob Garcia (D-California), the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced that they will be creating a website to collect information on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in an effort to track potential human rights violations. “We’re establishing a misconduct tracker to systematically document abuse and civil…
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Recently, heavily armed and masked SWAT-like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rolled up at a Chicago-area elementary school as classes ended for the day. Their target? A mom picking up her child. The footage is heart-wrenching: A woman in a pink sweatshirt, struggling frantically, is pressed into the pavement by armed bodies as she screams, “There is no signed warrant…
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President Donald Trump’s assault on immigrants in Democrat-led cities continued Wednesday with confirmation from the US Coast Guard that its base in Alameda, California is preparing to host 100 federal agents — whose looming arrival is seen as “a likely precursor” to the Republican deploying National Guard troops to San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle initially reported that agents…
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President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to an increase in raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in myriad human rights abuses — including the abuse and neglect of disabled immigrants in federal custody. In June, the largest disability rights group in the nation, Disability Rights California (DRC), conducted a monitoring visit at the Adelanto…
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