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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David Leopold: “A welcome first step” The Biden administration is taking steps to undo and repair some of the most cruel elements of the Trump era immigration. Trump’s cruelty towards immigrants remains a moral stain on the nation and one of the reasons he was rejected by the multiracial...
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Ad calls out Republicans trying to score cheap political points on vulnerable children Today, ahead of President Joe Biden’s first congressional address, immigrant advocacy groups America’s Voice and Care In Action are up with a new television ad campaign slamming Republican politicians for their hypocrisy on immigration. Republican leaders...
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