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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.
CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can’t Let Them.
CRCL’s frequent inaction and CBP’s own undermining of the office’s oversight role further bolsters the need for complete and permanent retention of internal agency records. We simply do not know what types of abuse could be documented in these files.
Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System
The evidence is clear: Immigrants are routinely abused, silenced, traumatized, and even killed by the U.S. immigration detention system, and it has to stop.
ACLU Calls On Tech Companies to End Their Alliance with ICE and CBP
Though they claim to “advance human welfare” and help their customers “move society forward” by providing the necessary knowledge, information, and analytical tools for researchers, lawyers, and government agencies, they are fueling the mass deportation and detention system.
For Black Immigrants, Police and ICE Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
For Black immigrants, life in the U.S. often means being encircled by the same systems of criminalization, profiling, and over-policing as Black Americans.
Hundreds of Thousands of People in Limbo as They Wait for Justice
The TPS program was created 30 years ago to provide safety to immigrants at risk in their countries of origin. Today, we await a decision that will determine its fate.
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