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"ICE out of the courts": protest, Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo: Phil Josselyn By Amanda Ottaway, Courthouse News Service December 7, 2017 BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) – A week after public defenders…
Resistance at Tule Lake is having its Texas Premiere! JOIN US at the Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF) where we are IN COMPETITION for Best Documentary Feature! "While the dominant …
Update, 12/16/17: There will be another protest for immigrant rights in the evening. RALLY Against Muslim Ban + Tax Scam and Fight for DREAM Act @ Washington Square Park, Dec 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm,…
The Trump administration is forging ahead with its assault on immigrants. For example, White House chief of staff John Kelly, a man the New York Times once labeled “ sensible ,” continues to display…
November 3, 2017 CONTACT: Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, mailto:isarda-sorensen@aclu.org Stephen Wilson, ACLU of Texas, 713-325-7010, mailto:media@aclutx.org SAN ANTONIO — The fede…
Border art: image from JR, the artist For the moment media coverage of immigration policy is mostly focused on the whether Trump and the Democrats can make a deal on a new DREAM Act, but some outlets…
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images White House to Congress: we'll legalize DACA recipients if you crack down on most other immigrants Trump’s “priorities”: restrict asylum, limit family-based lega…
By Resistance at Tule Lake September 27, 2017 This is an urgent call to help save historic Tule Lake. Tule Lake is where more than 24,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. The p…
Talia Inlender, a senior staff attorney at Public Counsel, which advocates for immigrants, criticized the focus on sanctuary cities. “It’s clearly a political move that is not actually geared toward …
Victory for Immigrant Hunger Strikers: Lawsuit Challenges Slave Wages at Private Jail By Mike Ludwig, Truthout NWDC protest. Photo: Thomas Soerenes/The News Tribune/AP September 22, 2017 For three ye…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to detain immigrants in New York City courthouses. Go here for an earlier report.—TPOI editor ICE Agents Make Arrests at Brooklyn Courthouse Democr…
Organized labor is finding creative ways to protect immigrant members and families vulnerable in the Trump era. By Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post September 12, 2018 Yahaira Burgos was fearing the wor…
The AFL-CIO was one of the main supporters of employer sanctions back in 1986. It only took 13 years for the labor federation to learn its lesson: in February 2000 it officially called for the elimin…
On September 7 NBC News reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was planning to carry out “Operation Mega,” a nationwide series of raids in the middle of the month targeting 8,400 imm…
By Julia Wick, LAist August 30, 2017 Update [5:50 p.m.]: According to a family spokesperson, Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was released from Adelanto Detention Center at approximately 5:20 p.m. and has bee…
In four days at the end of July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 650 immigrants in the agency’s largest series of raids since it made 680 arrests in February. Focused on the biza…
Northwest Detention Center on Lockdown Following Guard Beating of 18-Year-Old Even attorneys are being turned away from visiting their imprisoned immigrant clients Press Release, NWDC Resistance Augu…
The newly released information on 1,714 citizenship claim cases shows that only about two dozen people with citizenship cases nationwide were resolved quickly. One out of every six people with citize…
"A dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans is that they behaved as a 'model minority,' cooperating without protest and proving their patriotism by enli…
A directive from the head of ICE’s enforcement unit appears to push for tougher action than the Trump administration has publicly promised. By Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica July 7, 2017 The head of t…
