What Can We Do to Resist the ICE Raids?
Last week’s arrests of some 680 immigrants are almost certainly the beginning of a large and well-publicized Trump administration assault on the country’s more than 11 million undocumented people. Th…
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No, Trump’s Immigration Raids Aren’t Just Business as Usual
Photo: popularresistance.org According to ICE officials, immigration advocates have circulated “ false, dangerous and irresponsible” reports about last week’s nationally coordinated raids, which the …
More Resources for Defense Against ICE Raids: The Stop ICE Toolkit
The New York-based Immigrant Defense Project is providing a "Stop ICE Toolkit," which the group says "offers social justice advocates, lawyers, and community members critical informati…
600 Immigrants Swept Up Last Week—Is This "Routine"?
The total for last week's deportation sweep was more than 600, affecting a least 11 states. Immigration officials claim that the arrests were "routine," but President Trump’s recent twe…
ICE Arrests 40 New Yorkers in "Raids on Our Communities"
ICE Confirms 40 Immigration Arrests In NYC Area Last Week Photo: The Gothamist By Emma Whitford, The Gothamist February 12, 2017 Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted dozens of operatio…
Deportations Surge—and So Does the Resistance
New York City Rally on February 11. Photo: Newsday ICE spokespeople deny it, but this week the Trump administration appears to have started implementation of its January 25 executive order ’s promise…
URGENT: Share these know your rights materials for immigration raids
From United We Dream February 11, 2017 In the past 72 hours, the Trump administration has begun a nationwide assault on immigrants and their families. Reports of ICE (immigration) raids at grocery st…
How Kitchen Raids In Buffalo Sent Shock Waves Through Immigrant Rights Community
By John Burnett and Marisa Peñaloza, NPR Weekend Edition January 8, 2017 The morning of Oct. 18, 2016, the employees at La Divina, a taqueria and Mexican grocery in Buffalo, N.Y., were prepping for t…
Raids of Illegal Immigrants Bring Harsh Memories, and Strong Fears
By Amy Chozick, New York Times January 2, 2017 NEW HAVEN — Anthony Barroso was 13 and getting ready for school when they came for his father. As soon as Anthony opened the door, he knew the half-doze…
5 Ways Unions and Workers Centers Can Defend Immigrant Members
By Sonia Singh, Working In These Times December 20, 2016 This article was first posted by Labor Notes. As the reality of a Donald Trump presidency sets in, unions and workers centers are gearing up f…
Undocumented Immigrants Brace for the Trump Administration
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker December 19, 2016 One night late last month, Antonio Alarcón, a twenty-two-year-old senior at cuny, came home to the apartment he shares with his uncle and aunt, who a…
Punishing Employers Who Hire Undocumented Immigrants Isn’t the Answer—Solidarity Is
Some nativist and rightwing organizations argue that sanctions were never enforced because employers didn't go to jail, as Malone proposes. Actually, a few did for document fraud, and others did …
Rethinking Sanctuary Cities in an Age of "Targeted" Deportation
Many organizers are now realizing that official sanctuary city policies are not enough to keep ICE out of our communities. Community groups across the country have started building grassroots defense…
ICE Targets Women and Children in Raids
ICE is increasingly targeting young people: This high school student was detained on her way to school By Katie Levingston, Salon March 7, 2016 In her homeland of Honduras, Kimberly Pineda Chavez and…
Black and Brown Power Unite to Stop Deportation Raids
By Kelly Hayes, Truthout March 4, 201 6 With issues of mass incarceration and deportation hanging heavy over the current presidential race, both Black Lives Matter activists and immigration rights ac…
Protesters Rally Against Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE Raids in New York City
By Alyza Katrina C. Torres, Latin Post January 11, 2016 Protesters from a pro-immigrant rights coalition group last Friday held a rally in New York City airing their grievances against the recent Imm…
This Is Fear: ICE Raids on Parents and Children
By Nancy Hiemstra, Huffington Post January 8, 2016 At the end of December, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would being rounding up Central American immi…
18 Guatemalan Ex-Military Leaders Arrested for Crimes Against Humanity During U.S.-Backed Dirty War
"...[W]hen there’s terror in a place like Guatemala, people flee. They come to the U.S. That’s where a lot of the undocumented immigrants originated from. And then Americans complain. Well, you …
Stop the Raids and Focus Instead on U.S. Policy towards Central America
"...[T]he U.S. needs to genuinely address the root causes of Central American migration. To do so requires policy makers to take a hard look at existing U.S. policies toward the region..." …
Why Is the US Deporting Refugee Families?
By Michelle Chen, The Nation January 4, 2016 The White House rang in the New Year by slamming the gates on refugee families seeking sanctuary. Immigration and Customs Enforcementm (ICE) announced qui…