Tory Johnson is the Research Projects Manager at the American Immigration Council, where she focuses on policy and research related to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrant detention. She previously worked on immigration and criminal justice policy as a Young Fellow at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and before that advocated for immigrants’ rights in Arizona. Tory wrote her undergraduate thesis on the growth of private prisons in the immigrant detention industry and earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College.
Publications
Border Patrol is Going After Humanitarian Aid in the Arizona Desert—Again
- Humanitarian Protection
- October 15, 2020
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched another military-style raid on a humanitarian aid station…
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ICE Has Been Granted the Same Level of Secrecy as the FBI
- July 14, 2020
In a blow to government transparency, the Trump administration has decided to designate Immigration and…
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ICE and CBP Agents Were Deployed at Black Lives Matter Protests
- June 25, 2020
People have taken to the streets across the country to protest the murder of George…
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