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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…
"We deserve our share of the blame for not doing more to engage our members on issues of racial justice and immigrant rights in recent decades. When we fail to talk to our members about these is…
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 Josh Meyer, Politico September 1, 2017 One of the four companies picked by the Trump administration this week for its Mexico border wall prototype paid more than $3 million to settle a Justice Dep…
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…
Judge Linda Reade’s husband bought more prison stock five days before one of the nation’s biggest immigration raids. By Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones August 24, 2017 It was almost lunchtime inside …
Immigration issues seem set to get renewed public attention next month. Ten rightwing state governments are suing to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the popular program that grants …
By Sheila Bapat, Truthout August 13, 2017 Reina Gomez, 49, has been cleaning homes and caring for elderly people in South Florida since 2002. Her earnings as a domestic worker support her treatments…
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 president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence. By Dara Lind, Vox July 28, 2017 In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the U…
Officials and politicians naturally expressed shock and horror at the deaths of 10 migrants crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio the night of July 22. The political class blamed h…
The deaths of 10 migrants in San Antonio this week have gotten plenty of media attention, and there’s been some for the four deaths at the Rio Grande. Despite these stories, people continue to mouth …
Immigration is one area where the President can deliver, to a substantial extent, on his incendiary words, without Congress. …And the more Trump fails at other parts of his agenda, and the more he do…
"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…
“This was a wake-up call that Trump, Sessions and Kelly are serious about mass deportation and are anxious to get started. It is a call to action for people who oppose mass deportation and turning t…
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…
Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Group Camp in Arizona By Fernanda Santos, New York Times June 16, 2017 Photo: No More Deaths/Carrot Quinn PHOENIX — The Border Patrol raided a humanitarian aid…
ICE continues its practice in New York of detaining immigrants when they make scheduled court appearances. In the latest case, ICE agents were spotted waiting near a special court intended to hel…
