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By Democracy Now! March 31, 2017 Are immigration agents targeting undocumented organizers for their political work? That is the question many are asking after three prominent immigrant rights activis…
The good news is that DACA recipient Daniel Medina Ramirez has finally been released on bail, although the government is still pushing for his deportation. And there’s plenty of bad news. On Monday I…
Evidence is emerging that the February ICE raids and more recent detentions reveal what reporter Sam Knight calls “a pattern of deportation as retaliation.” Immigrant rights activists need to conside…
Chicago activists, local religious leaders, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez have been sitting in at the Chicago ICE offices today to protest the mass deportation policy. They reportedly expect to be arrested…
The following three reports make it hard to believe the Trump administration is sincerely interested in protecting U.S. citizens. Trump claims ICE will just be deporting “the bad ones,” on the q…
By Democracy Now! February 28, 2017 President Donald Trump is slated to give his first presidential address to Congress today. Democratic lawmakers have begun giving their tickets away to immigrants …
Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen the video of Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez being detained by ICE agents as his 13-year-old daughter cries. Trump claims he’s just deporting “bad hombres,” but …
By David L. Wilson, MR Online March 2, 2017 The national sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the second week of February drew a great deal of media attention. Some of the c…
Philadelphians train to disrupt ICE raids. Photo: Laura Benshoff/WHYY The deportation raids earlier this month seem to have galvanized the New Sanctuary Movement. In what many consider a reprise of t…
Today President Trump announced that his administration is “getting really bad dudes out of this country,” adding that “it’s a military operation.” Hours later Homeland Security John Kelly was in Mex…
ICE claims that it’s not carrying out sweeps. The operations target specific individuals, according to the agency, and avoid “sensitive areas” like places of worship. But ICE agents reportedly arrest…
Photo: Bryan Cox/AP The raids earlier this month were no fluke. Two memos released on February 21 make it clear that Donald Trump was serious when he promised to deport millions of immigrants. The me…
The Trump administration’s deportation raids in the second week of February seem to have galvanized activists. Groups around the country have responded by trying to develop action plans for resistanc…
One of Trump's "bad hombres" More than a week later, immigrant communities are still suffering from the effects of the Trump administration’s nationally coordinated arrests of some 680 …
So much for claims that Trump's deportations only target “bad hombres.”—TPOI editor By David Nakamura, Washington Post February 18, 2017 Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweep…
“That is 100% not true. It is false,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told the media pool aboard Air Force One today, the Associated Press says in an update to an earlier report that the…
By Garance Burke, AP via Bloomberg February 17, 2017 (AP) -- The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrant…
A nationwide February 16 walkout by immigrants had mixed results. T he protest – a response to the Trump administration’s ban on visits from seven majority-Muslim countries and to last week’s arrest…
Last week’s ICE raids swept up at least one immigrant supposed to be protected by Obama’s DACA program. Government officials are still holding Daniel Ramirez Medina, claiming he is an admitted gang …
