A troubling report by Vice News yesterday documented the shaky method being used by the U.S. government to determine whether unaccompanied minors that arrive at the border are really children or whether they should be placed in immigration jails for adults. It’s a horrifying new case study in how our government…
The migrant detention facilities in Southern Arizona are overflowing, and in response, ICE is abruptly releasing hundreds of detained asylum-seekers onto the streets with no institutional support other than a location-tracking ankle monitor, according to a new report by NBC News.
An Argentinian man who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years is set to be deported, despite being in the process of applying for a marriage-based green card, after ICE agents reportedly tricked him into thinking they were friendly strangers returning his lost wallet as a pretense to arrest him.
A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency official confirmed this week that his department has been arresting immigrants who have stepped forward to take custody of undocumented children currently being held by the government, telling a congressional committee that the majority of those detained were for simple…
With less than 30 percent of polling precincts counted, the Associated Press declared incumbent Andrew Cuomo the winner in New York’s contentious Democratic gubernatorial primary, ending what had become a study in stark contrasts between Cuomo’s craven political opportunism and Cynthia Nixon’s progressive vision for…
It’s a predictable but no less shameful part of the way the news media works that the urgency and quantity of human suffering in a news story isn’t proportionate to the amount of coverage it gets and that, over time, even stories that have been covered well will slip out of dominant placement in national news. Such is…
The combination of insufficient resources for mentally ill people and a Texas law requiring law enforcement cooperation with ICE has created a toxic and dangerous situation for immigrants with mental health issues in the state. A new report from the Texas Observer tells the stories of two young Latina women who were…
A few weeks ago, rumors spread across the internet that a child had died in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody. It turned out that information was false. The Vice News report that spurred those rumors, however, is just as disturbing. It tells the story of Yazmin Juárez, 20, a Guatemalan asylum-seeker who…
The Trump administration’s favorite justification for tearing apart families is to point to the fact that many, by crossing the border, have committed a crime. Of course, crossing the border without a visa is merely a misdemeanor, on the same level as shoplifting or public intoxication—and it’s certainly not a reason …
Democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has quickly become the right wing’s boogyman du jour since her primary win in June, with Republicans and their ilk going after her with racist smears and hysterical fear-mongering. Now comes an insane allegation that she essentially supports Nazis.
When President Donald Trump announced that he’d be hosting an event honoring the “heroes of ICE and CBP,” you may have thought to yourself, “Well, that sure sounds like it’s gonna be a complete horror show.” And now that it’s come and gone, it’s my unfortunate duty to inform you that, yes, it sure was.
Back in June, Reuters reported that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was preparing to transfer up to 1,600 immigrant detainees to five federal prisons across the country, with the largest number (up to a thousand) going to the federal prison in Victorville, CA. Pretty much everyone with a brain,…
The Trump administration’s immigration rhetoric is often framed as a pro-law and order campaign against undocumented immigration rather than a set of racist, inhumane policies against people of color. But that facade is laughable, as the administration proves every single day. The latest outrage: the Immigration and…
Arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record have tripled under the Trump administration, according to an NBC News report.
Some have called President Donald Trump’s Space Force “ridiculous,” “a giant waste of money that could be used to expand healthcare coverage,” and “dumb as shit.” And it’s true that there are major issues with Space Force. But the voices calling for its abolition are seriously misguided. Getting rid of Space Force…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had the chance to join his party’s growing movement to abolish the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency. Instead, he chose to sidestep the matter marvelously.
On Wednesday, the Texas Observer published a detailed account of how the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency allegedly lied about a serious automobile accident involving a van carrying undocumented Central American mothers headed to a detention center in Texas—an accident which, despite witnesses and a detailed…
ICE’s biggest contractor, the private prison company GEO Group, has threatened a group of activists in Florida with legal action for allegedly publishing false information and staging protests outside the company’s facilities.
The Department of Justice informed the American Civil Liberties Union in a court filing on Thursday that it, not the government, should take responsibility for finding parents who were separated from their children at the border and then deported. Uhhhhh.
Thomas Homan may no longer be in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but that doesn’t mean he can’t pop up from time to time to remind everyone that he’s a heartless monster who couldn’t care less about the human cost incurred by children detained during his time in office.
