Getting Real About John Kelly
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&…
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The Postville Boss Gets Out of Jail. What About His Immigrant Workers?
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…
ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in 'sanctuary cities'
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 …
ICE in NYC Courtrooms: “Secret Police” Nab Alleged Gang Members in Brooklyn
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…
Labor Unions Are Stepping Up to Fight Deportations
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…
Why do we still have employer sanctions?
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…
ICE Plans, Then Postpones, “Largest Operation" in Its History
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…
L.A. Father Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez Released On Bond After Six Months In ICE Custody
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…
A Federal Judge Put Hundreds of Immigrants Behind Bars While Her Husband Invested in Private Prisons
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 …
ICE Carries Out Second-Largest Deportation Sweep of the Year
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…
Gutiérrez Warns Those With DACA or TPS to Prepare for the Worst
“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…
ICE in NYC Courtrooms: Agents Target Queens Human Trafficking Court
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…
It’s Official: ICE Head Says “Bad Hombres” Aren’t the Only Target
Acting ICE director Thomas Homan has now admitted that the government’s goal is to make all undocumented immigrants “uncomfortable.” The reality behind Homan’s statement is that even the Trump regime…
AFL-CIO Issues Toolkit on Workplace Raids
The AFL-CIO has produced a useful toolkit to help workers and union officials prepare for immigration raids at the workplace and for I-9 “silent raids.” As the authors point out, the two types of rai…
Fire and ICE: The Return of Workplace Immigration Raids
Undocumented workers face a new level of insecurity under the Trump administration. By David Bacon, The American Prospect April 27, 2017 Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that report…
The Trump Era Tests the True Power of Sanctuary Cities
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker April 18, 2017 Ever since Donald Trump became President, mayors and city council members in “sanctuary cities”—places where local law-enforcement officials limit th…
Day Without Bread Update: Arrests, Protest, Signs of Solidarity
The April 21 protest in support of immigrant workers at Tom Cat Bakery in Queens brought four arrests and extensive coverage in New York media. Of the 31 workers threatened by ICE, 18 are continuing…
A Day Without Bread, April 21: Support NY Bakery Workers as They Fight “Silent Raids”
During the Obama administration employers and the government used the “silent raid” as a major tool for intimidating undocumented workers. In this scenario a company notifies some of its employees …
ICE immigration arrests of noncriminals double under Trump
While Trump claims his immigration raids are targeting criminals, the biggest increase in ICE arrests since he took office is among immigrants without criminal records. The Washington Post notes con…
ICE Update: Five Green Card Applicants Detained, Raids in Northwest, Government Defend Courthouse Arrests
“Why don’t they just get legal?” people ask. Well, one reason is that they might be arrested and deported when they go for their green card interviews. And a domestic abuse victim now needs to think…