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After Years of Advocacy, the House of Representatives Finally Cuts Funding to Trump’s Deportation Force
Congress' FY21 Department of Homeland Security funding bill significantly reduces ICE detention, takes meaningful steps to hold ICE and CBP accountable for their wasteful spending, and rescinds money for Trump’s border wall.
After 17 Months of Unlawful Detention, Court Orders Release of U.S. Resident Wrongfully Detained Under Patriot Act
For well over a year, the U.S. government has held Adham Hassoun in a detention facility without trial, without criminal charge, and without end in sight. Today, a court ordered the government to release him.
DHS Watchdog Confirms: ICE is Failing to Protect Detained People From COVID
ICE continues to claim it is adequately protecting people in its custody from COVID. A new report shows how patently untrue that is.
ICE’s Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives
ICE has been demonstrably dishonest with the courts and public about matters related to COVID-19 — so we're filing a FOIA request to uncover more information.
How to Co-opt a Pandemic to Ban Asylum
The Trump administration is exploiting a public health crisis to achieve its long-held goal of ending asylum at the border.
“They Don’t Care if You Die”: Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19
Across the country, there are nearly 36,000 people in the custody of ICE on an average day. Some are in county jails and state prisons, others are in facilities run by private contractors like the GEO Group. Many are asylum seekers who have asked the U.S. to protect them from persecution abroad.
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