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The security threat on our borders? Photo: Jennifer Whitney/NY Times The Washington Post reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is again considering former department hea…
Didn't Postville workers' families suffer too? Photo: Stephen Mally/NY Times On December 20 President Trump commuted the 27-year prison sentence of former kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom R…
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…
Photo: David Bacon A Border Patrol agent shot an apparent border crosser dead on November 29 in the Tohono O’odham Native American Nation, which has had many problems with the Border Patrol in the p…
"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…
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,…
After six days of deliberation, on November 30 a San Francisco jury acquitted Mexican immigrant José Inez García Zárate of murder and manslaughter charges in the July 2015 shooting death of Kate Stei…
Abuse of this nature is "very widespread" at Hutto, said one woman who has accused a guard at the detention facility of repeatedly sexually assaulting her. "It is a big problem in this…
“Not Forgotten”: Graves of people who died trying to cross the border. Photo: David Bacon U.S. Illegally Denying Immigrants Their Right to Seek Asylum at the Mexican Border, According to Lawsuit By R…
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…
Many of the current misconceptions about immigration were heavily promoted by the corporate media in the past, but establishment outlets have occasionally published sensible articles on the subject r…
Liberal commentators have written favorably about the program in the past.... But E-Verify isn't really any better than Trump's "big beautiful wall." By David L. Wilson, Truthout Oc…
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…
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…
