This June, Haydi Torres found herself on the phone with a stranger in Arizona who wanted to help free Ivan, a 39-year-old Russian man, from the San Luis Regional Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail near Yuma. Ivan had already been granted bond. But by the time an advocate contacted Torres, who is a bond and community associate at Envision Freedom Fund…
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As part of its relentless project of mass deportation, the Trump administration has taken particularly brutal aim at the most vulnerable population of immigrants: children. If the federal government has its way, about 20,000 unaccompanied minors will soon face immigration court hearings without legal representation. For decades, Congress has allocated funding for unaccompanied immigrant…
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Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Haitians in Springfield are getting letters telling them to report to the ICE office in either Blue Ash (near Cincinnati) or Westerville (near Columbus). “When they do, their passports are collected,” said Carl Ruby…
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A new legal filing in Minnesota federal court accuses the U.S. government of opening unwarranted investigations into multiple left-leaning groups as residents were protesting against the deadly immigration raids in the state last winter. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), handled the investigations…
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This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 9 episode of “Connect with Jacob Soboroff.”
In 2026, under Donald Trump’s second administration, the president’s anti-immigration crusade has proven to be a supersized version of what we saw unfold during his first term.
During Trump’s first stint in the White House, government records show his administration deliberately separated 5,500 children from their parents in what a Republican-appointed judge called “one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.” This time around, according to Brookings, that number is more than 100,000 children.
The cruelty might seem unprecedented, but what we are seeing with Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation campaign is not new. In fact, it’s history repeating itself: They are pulling directly from the pages of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s playbook.
During a campaign rally shortly before Election Day in 2024, Trump vowed to launch what he called the “largest deportation program of criminals in American history” and compared his mission to that of his predecessor. “We’re going to get them out. We have to. Dwight Eisenhower has the record. … But we’re going to, unfortunately, beat the record,” he said.
Eisenhower’s deportation campaign was aggressive and violent. And the cruelty of it all started with its name.
The Eisenhower model that Trump has touted as a massive success and that he’s trying to imitate had a name so racist, so deeply offensive, that I hesitate to even share it. But you should know this history, and you should know its name. Eisenhower’s 1954 massive deportation campaign, Operation Wetback, used military-style tactics to round up Mexican immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. It was aggressive
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is buying up to $20 million worth of gloves that can allow agents to issue a painful electric shock to force people into compliance, granting the agency yet another tool as it extrajudicially abducts and kills people across the country. According to a notice posted by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, ICE is planning to spend between $10…
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