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ICE’s Detention Oversight System Needs an Overhaul
Effective oversight and transparency are not enough, we need to shut down ICE's mass immigration detention machine.
People Who Would Benefit from A Pathway to Citizenship Send Message to Congress
Congress has a real opportunity to deliver a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants.
Nine Years After DACA Went Into Effect, Congress On The Verge Of Passing A Path To Citizenship
A pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants is within reach. Congress must get it done.
Cruelty and Coercion: How ICE Abuses Hunger Strikers
A new report from the ACLU and Physicians for Human Rights details ICE’s abuse and retaliation against people who initiate hunger strikes in immigration detention.
Biden Must Remove Border Patrol from Border Communities to Restore Civil Rights and Liberties
A meaningful shift in border policy to restore the civil rights and liberties of border communities means an end to walls, wasteful militarization, intrusive surveillance technology, and the removal of Border Patrol, CBP’s law enforcement arm, from policing U.S. communities.
The Biden Administration Can Make Us All Safer: End ICE Collaboration Programs
Dismantling these programs will send a powerful signal to immigrant communities: the Biden administration will not continue Trump’s agenda of xenophobia and abuse.
Moving Forward: Muslims Belong Here
Much like Japanese incarceration, the Trump administration used fear-mongering under the veil of “national security” to further its discriminatory agenda — this time by suspending visas under INA 212(f) to repeatedly ban Black and Brown people.
An Indigenous Woman Made it to Safety in the U.S. DHS Won’t Let it Go.
The months she spent in Matamoros were a nightmare. Temperatures oscillated between blazing heat during the day and frigid cold at night. One of those nights, she and her daughter huddled in their tent as the sound of a gun battle between police and a local drug cartel echoed through the streets.
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