On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “broke the record for the highest number of deportations and arrests in any fiscal year.” ICE conducted “more than 491,000 immigration arrests,” the department said in a press release. Furthermore, the agency deported “more than 483,000” people over the past year.
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The San Francisco Chronicle has obtained internal ICE investigations into the deaths of dozens of people in its custody during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, finding that 23 of the 29 individuals died after a lack of proper medical care. Guards, medical providers, and staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities failed to provide emergency care…
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PACs and executives from three of the leading private prison companies have donated close to $1.2 million to candidates, fundraising committees, and political party committees during this year’s midterm election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. A GEO Group subsidiary, GEO Reentry Services LLC, donated an additional $4.4 million to MAGA Inc.
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We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention. It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targeted for arrest and deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Palestine campus advocacy at Columbia University. Khalil missed the birth of his first child, Deen, while he was separated from…
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The more the American public sees of President Donald Trump’s hardline, anti-immigrant policies in action — the deaths, military-style invasions of neighborhoods, and mass detention and deportations — the more his approval on the issue drops. If this trend sounds familiar, it’s because a similar wave of disapproval played out in Trump’s first term. Despite that backlash…
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Echoing activists across the country, the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the United States government to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Emerging from the #Not1More campaign organized by undocumented activists and groups like Puente and Juntos in 2014, and gaining momentum with concerted organizing by grassroots groups such as Mijente…
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