Abuses

US Citizens Caught in Immigration Dragnet As Enforcement Gets More Aggressive

US Citizens Caught in Immigration Dragnet As Enforcement Gets More Aggressive

There is a disturbing trend in aggressive immigration enforcement that is appearing more and more recently: the detention of U.S. citizens. There are clear indications that U.S. immigration agents are locking up people they assume must be non-citizens, but who are in fact U.S. citizens. These abuses transcend any presidential… Read More

No Freedom, Education, or Privacy: Over 2,000 Immigrant Children Detained at the Homestead Shelter

No Freedom, Education, or Privacy: Over 2,000 Immigrant Children Detained at the Homestead Shelter

Over 2,000 immigrant children are being detained by the Trump administration at a “temporary emergency” facility in Homestead, Florida. All of the children at the facility have been designated by the government as “unaccompanied” minors. However, not every “unaccompanied” child came to the border alone—some were intentionally separated from their… Read More

ICE Quietly Expands Immigration Detention in the Deep South

ICE Quietly Expands Immigration Detention in the Deep South

While members of Congress were struggling to reach a bipartisan deal in February in order to end the government shutdown, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly expanded its complicated network of immigration jails—this time in the Deep South. In late June, ICE started using three… Read More

Newly Released Documents and Personal Testimonies Provide Evidence of Systematic Family Separations a Year After the End of Zero-Tolerance Policy

Newly Released Documents and Personal Testimonies Provide Evidence of Systematic Family Separations a Year After the End of Zero-Tolerance Policy

Newly obtained documents from the Department of Health and Human Services released today by immigrant rights groups and The Houston Chronicle show that migrant children continued to be separated from their parents at the border nearly one year after the end of the “zero tolerance” policy. Read More

No Help “Unless We’re Dying.” Immigrants Present Evidence of Inadequate Medical Care in Detention

No Help “Unless We’re Dying.” Immigrants Present Evidence of Inadequate Medical Care in Detention

As the Trump administration ramps up efforts to expand immigration detention in the United States, many detained immigrants continue to suffer behind bars due to woefully inadequate medical and mental health care. In the past two years, 24 people died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention alone… Read More

Make a contribution

Make a direct impact on the lives of immigrants.

logoimg