Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Alene Tchekmedyian and Andrea Castillo - March 20, 2021 A man who had been detained at the Adelanto ICE processing center died three days after his release. (Irfan ...
Category: ENFORCEMENT
The U.S. awarded her fight for human rights. ICE detained her son
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Alice Su - March 18, 2021 Wang Yu, a lawyer who took on sensitive human rights cases in China, poses during an interview in Hong Kong on March 20, 2014. (Philippe ...
PRIVATE COMPANIES MANEUVERING TO CASH IN ON BIDEN’S CHILD MIGRANT DETENTION
Originally Published in The Intercept John Washington - March 14, 2021 Two of the firms poised to vie for new lucrative child-detention contracts have checkered pasts in migrant detention. ...
Judge rules ICE must keep records about sexual assault and detainee deaths
Originally Published in The Hill Justine Coleman - March 14, 2021 A federal judge ruled on Friday that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has to ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforc ...
ICE has no clear plan for vaccinating thousands of detained immigrants fighting deportation
Originally Published in The Washington Post Maria Sacchetti - March 12, 2021 People waiting in line for a coronavirus vaccination pass in front of signs promising that immigration agencies will not conduct enfo ...
ICE MISMANAGEMENT CREATED CORONAVIRUS “HOTBEDS OF INFECTION” IN AND AROUND DETENTION CENTERS
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a horrifying — and avoidable — calamity. By handing out masks late, forcing detained people into close quarters, refusing to release t ...
Immigrant essential workers have helped us through this long, dark pandemic
As the nation braces for a dark winter of COVID-19, we remain hopeful that vaccines will arrive with the spring thaw. In the meantime, foreign-born essential workers are playing a critical role during the pandemic. It’s ...
Whistleblowers Say Armed Mexicans Were Smuggled Into U.S. to Provide Security for Border Wall Construction
Donald Trump used the idea of “the wall” to propel his run to the White House in 2016, but two whistleblowers allege the border wall’s construction has gotten an assist from unauthorized workers smuggled into the U.S. an ...
Immigration cruelty didn’t start with Trump. Will it end under Biden?
Immigrants and their advocates breathed a sigh of relief when President Trump lost his bid for reelection, but a return to Obama-era immigration policies should not be cause for celebration. Many of Trump’s harshest chan ...
Op-Ed: The crime against migrant children that Biden needs to repair
More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration since 2017. Many families remain separated, and the violence of this policy has been comp ...