Dozens of FEMA staffers are being forced to help ICE vet and hire thousands more masked deportation agents. It’s not like hurricane season is already here or anything As hurricane season approaches, the nearly 45% of Americans who live in the path of potentially catastrophic damage should know that...
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On everything from immigration policy and national security to our personal freedom, the first six months of the second Trump administration has unleashed a wrecking crew of chaos and dysfunction across our country (and the world). At the same time, it reveals the rank hypocrisy from Trump and members...
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Lawmakers note that bad actors have also exploited ICE’s anonymity and impersonated agents in order to commit serious crimes, including sexual assault and robbery U.S. Representatives Robert Garcia (CA-42) and Summer Lee (PA-12) are among the latest voices to condemn the Trump administration’s terrifying pattern of masked immigration arrests,...
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One visiting member, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, called conditions at the detention camp abhorrent. “When those doors opened .. what I saw made my heart sink.” Last week, lawmakers were finally permitted to inspect the new Everglades detention camp in Florida, after being initially blocked from entering the site...
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And they can barely contain their glee. “This is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career,” one private prison executive said earlier this year Stephen Miller isn’t the only one thrilled about the unprecedented infusion of taxpayer funds going to his anti-immigrant agenda under the big,...
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One man jailed at the Florida incarceration camp said officials even confiscated his Bible: “They said here there is no right to religion” Members of Congress have the legal authority to conduct oversight of ICE detention facilities. That’s not up for debate or interpretation, it’s simply the law. End...
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Online tool from America’s Voice exposes the devastating consequences of Trump’s anti-immigrant obsession Donald Trump’s obsession with mass purging millions of immigrant families and contributors from their homes and workplaces is coming at high economic and human costs to the country, as documented in a new “Trump’s America” map...
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The incoming Trump administration and their allies in Congress have promised to make unsparing mass deportations their top priority, including a return to devastating workplace raids. Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine the downstream consequences but look to workplace raids from the last time Trump was in power. The...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued private prison company CoreCivic in 2018 following shocking allegations by detained immigrants that a voluntary work program at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia was anything but voluntary. Officials allegedly forced immigrants in ICE custody to work for as little as $1...
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, the Biden administration issued the third in a series of memoranda updating and improving civil immigration enforcement guidelines. The new agency-wide guidance, entitled Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas, sets policy with respect to ICE and CBP enforcement actions in or near...
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