Less than a day after news broke that a Border Patrol agent has been apprehended and charged with murdering four women in Laredo, Texas, news has broken that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was apprehended and charged with ten felony counts of sodomy and one of incest in Medford, Oregon. Officials have…
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When Yazmin Juárez and her young daughter Mariee arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in March to seek asylum, Mariee was, according to her mother, a healthy, happy 18-month-old toddler.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is legally required to unite migrant children held in youth shelters with family or guardians as soon as possible, and place them in the “least restrictive” settings until they do so. But increasingly, children who turn 18 in youth shelters are being sent to adult detention…
The Trump administration has deported a 95-year-old former Nazi labor camp guard, concluding a 14-year process following a 2004 deportation order.
Happy Anniversary to Newt and Calista in all of their heavily face-tuned glory.
A nursing mother who fled death threats from her brother-in-law in El Salvador is suing the Trump administration to reunite her with her 11-month old daughter, who was still being breastfed when they were forcibly separated.
Gothamist reports that a couple wearing handcrafted “Abolish ICE” t-shirts were denied entry to the Statue of Liberty in July, a move that the National Park Service now says “never should’ve happened.” Yeah, no shit.
It was January when Ashleigh lost her job at the grocery store, and March when she first started driving without a license. The chain of events felt like dominos coming down one by one, but there was nothing she could do to stop them. “My work permit expired, so my job put me on leave,” she says. “The DMV gave me a…
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A van transporting eight undocumented mothers forcibly separated from their children under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy crashed en route to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. ICE then repeatedly denied the crash ever occurred.
As longstanding calls from activists to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement have gained steam in the wake of the family separation crisis, and as more politicians and candidates for office take up the rallying cry, there has been a spate of articles and op-eds all asking the same questions: What does abolish…
After subjecting migrant families to months of forced separation and reuniting parents and their children only under extreme pressure from the American public and a federal judge’s court order, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now trying to coerce newly reunited families to leave the country, according to new…
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that Microsoft employees confronted the company’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, with a petition signed by more than 300,000 individuals calling on the software manufacturer to terminate its contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
We are all living out the story of Sisyphus, except in real life, eventually the boulder crushes Sisyphus and Elon Musk flies all the Gods to Mars to rule a new planet.
Did Trump decide we’re just not gonna do this NATO shit anymore yet or what?
On Tuesday, more than 100 state and local elected officials from 20 states issued a joint statement calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Hmmm, how can we be more evil? There are so many ways, it turns out.
On Saturday, thousands [UPDATE 6/30: at least tens of thousands] set out across the country, clothed in white, to march against the Trump administration’s institutionalization of child abuse. (And it is hot out.) The “Families Belong Together” protests, which were planned about a month in advance, are no less…
