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According to the Supreme Court , immigration detention cannot legally be classified as punishment: to punish immigrants for simply being in the country unlawfully would be unconstitutional.… Yet the…
“So how can you help?…This is where I’m going to start challenging you. You can create a space where you can help someone. You can make a phone call. You can write a letter. You can tweet. You can ju…
San Francisco workers demonstrate. Photo: David Bacon How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations No one knows better than union activists that there's zero chance for this kind of basic immig…
While media attention was focused on the DACA debacle in Congress, a lot seemed to be going on at the local level. Given the paucity of media coverage, it’s hard to tell whether this represents an in…
Efforts to protect the younger immigrants known as Dreamers collapsed in the Senate today as three competing amendments failed to get the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster. President Trump had m…
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled as much as two weeks’ worth of open Mitch McConnell. Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite debate on immigration policy starting tonight. No one se…
General John Kelly. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP At last mainstream reporters have started reporting about the real General John Kelly. What finally did Trump’s chief of staff in was the revelation that he&…
Tania Unzueta Carrasco, USA Today February 7, 2018 The Trump administration is targeting people who speak out and organize against its policies. I know. Members of my organization are being targeted.…
Update, 1/30/18: Today's Democracy Now! features an excellent discussion with Ravi Ragbir, his wife Amy Gottlieb, and his lead attorney, Alina Dax. Watch at: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/…
Two-thirds of the population lives in the government's 100-mile border zone. Graphic: ACLU Border Patrol Checking Papers of Greyhound Passengers in Florida Most Americans are unaware that two-thi…
More and more evidence is accumulating: ICE is using its policing powers in an effort to shut down resistance to the immigration system. So far, the effort seems to be backfiring. As the repression …
New Yorkers arrested as ICE detains Ravi Ragbir. Joana Toro /VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images There can now be little doubt that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting immigration activist…
1. Stand With Us on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we proclaim “Immigrant Rights are Human Rights”. Ravi Ragbir, Jean Montreveil, and others have been unjustly detained. Join us Monday as we stand tog…
The administration is now taking aim at a faith-based New York activist coalition. This morning ICE detained the New Sanctuary Coalition 's executive director, Ravi Ragbir, during his scheduled c…
The New Sanctuary Coalition’s executive director was detained today when he made his regularly scheduled check-in visit to ICE offices at the New York federal building. The coalition is requesting ph…
Rally for a Clean DREAM Act at Sen. Schumer's Office Join the New York Immigration Coalition and our partners outside New York Senator Chuck Schumer's office to demand he take strong action t…
Photo: Astrid Riecken/Washington Post) Rapid response network to monitor immigration enforcement launches in San Diego By Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union Tribune December 19, 2017 People who see immi…
As of 4 pm today, December 19, Dreamers are sitting in at the offices of a number of Congress members. For live coverage from inside the office, go here: http://weareheretostay.org/dreamact-sitins/ S…
New York City Democratic Socialists of America ( NYC DSA ) has started an online petition to demand that New York Chief Judge DiFiore bar ICE from courthouses to prevent further detentions of immigra…
