Trump’s militarization was meant to send a message: you don’t belong here. L.A. answered with its own message: we belong to each other This is a guest post by Jorge-Mario Cabrera, Director of Communications at Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). For decades, Los Angeles has been described as...
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One Baptist minister said that in his nearly ten years of visiting detained immigrants, the past year “has been the worst” The ongoing abuses at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall private prison in New Jersey are not an aberration. Hundreds of immigrants detained in at least four other private...
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Trump’s “violent campaign of raids and detentions during the summer of 2025 in Los Angeles set the stage for similar and subsequent abuses in cities around the country,” as Human Rights Watch said June 6 marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s unjustified invasion of Los...
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May 28, 2026
A horrific number of U.S. citizen children have been separated from a parent under the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, a new study reveals A May 18 report from the Brookings Institution estimates that nearly 147,000 American citizen kids have seen a parent detained under the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant...
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“The inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall shock the conscience,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Hundreds of detained immigrants are hunger striking in protest of inhumane conditions at privately-operated facilities in New Jersey and California ICE has responded with violence, including pepper-spraying a U.S....
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“We see no evidence that employers increase wages to attract U.S.- born workers to fill these jobs in the face of immigration enforcement,” one study said Donald Trump has his priorities — and it’s not any of the millions of Americans struggling to pay for daily living expenses, like...
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One 2019 study from the Migration Policy Institute found that between 2001 and 2013, almost 300 foreign-born soldiers died in service of their adoptive country José Gutierrez is not a name remembered by most Americans, but it should be. The Marine Corps. Lance corporal – believed to have been...
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DACA recipients and loved ones told lawmakers during a Senate forum that the administration’s mass deportation agenda has left their families in “constant fear” Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez – the DACA recipient who was wrongfully separated from her U.S. citizen daughter this past February despite holding valid deportation...
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Most Americans strongly oppose the mass deportation uglinesses terrorizing their communities and neighbors. Lawmakers should remember that amid the reconciliation fight Congressional Republicans and the White House continue to careen forward with plans to seize more than $70 billion of your hard-earned money to ensure that Donald Trump and...
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“Across the U.S., A/PI adults of all ethnicities and statuses are feeling the weight of anti-immigrant policies and political rhetoric” This May marks Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, which honors the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander neighbors who have enriched America’s history...
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