State and local government action is helping eliminate “one of the Trump regime’s key tactics for mass deportation and family separation,” one advocate said Local and state lawmakers all across the country have been taking substantive action to push back against the Trump administration’s brutal mass deportation efforts, in... Continue »
“Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” their open letter states An impressive list of entertainers, physicians, educators, and advocacy organizations are among the notable figures to have joined forces to issue an open letter demanding the “immediate” closure of Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center,... Continue »
 “I’m here because of the incredible amount of cruelty that’s going on in the world,” said one rally attendee Record-breaking “No Kings” events across every single U.S. state and territory this past weekend continued to voice fierce opposition to the Trump administration’s attacks on constitutional freedoms, paychecking-busting policies, and... Continue »
Students are facing suspension and other disciplinary actions for standing up for their peers, communities, and rights Thousands of high school students across dozens of states have been standing up for their classmates, communities, and values by walking out of their classrooms in protest of the federal government’s mass... Continue »
And they deserve permanent relief, now. “No daughter should have to live like this,” said the child of a recently-deported DACA recipient. “No family should be torn apart like this” A DACA recipient has blasted the Trump administration’s ongoing detention and deportation of Dreamers, unequivocally stating that the federal... Continue »
This Women’s History Month, we’ve highlighted the story of immigrant rights advocate Jeanette Vizguerra, who was kept separated from her children and grandchildren for nine months after being abducted by ICE while on a break outside her Target store last March. She finally won her freedom in late last... Continue »
Like Kristi Noem, all indications suggest that Markwayne Mullin will be the nominal leader of DHS on paper, but on the ground, Stephen Miller will continue to run the mass deportation show Donald Trump has nominated Republican Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi... Continue »
We want to shine a light on the many American citizens and immigrant neighbors who have been targeted by the president and were invited as guests by lawmakers. Although they differ in where they live, their age, occupation, and citizenship status, they all share one thing in common: their... Continue »
“Recent polling shows majorities of Americans believe Trump’s ICE operations go too far, recognize mass deportation makes us less safe and strongly support ICE and CBP reforms and accountability” During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump launched into the same old tired and racist diatribes that... Continue »
When it comes to its barbaric and deadly mass deportation agenda, the federal government has been blowing through taxpayer money like it’s going out of style, spending more than $500 million dollars to buy industrial warehouses in multiple states with a goal of transforming these structures into mass detention... Continue »