11+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1079+ words) Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator. Louisiana residents are mobilizing in opposition to the immigration jail with the help of CENLA Activism, a grassroots group of concerned residents…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (798+ words) “I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said. After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (698+ words) The order clears the way for Trump’s mass deportation campaign to target those who had Temporary Protected Status. WASHINGTON — A federal judge lifted a stay Wednesday on the termination of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in order…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1696+ words) Opaque contracts and enormous windfalls are buttressing the buildout of ICE jails and their shadowy operators. Last summer, business was looking bad for hotshot Boston developer James Grossmann. His flashy new construction company, Rise Construction Management, had begun to spiral…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (476+ words) Senate candidate Haley Stevens’s campaign has also been marked by $30 million in support from AIPAC. Up until this week, House representative and Democratic Senate candidate Haley Stevens’s campaign shared a mutual consultant with far right tech surveillance company Palantir, new…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (658+ words) ICE policy already restricts traffic stops, requiring that agents only use them when there is “reasonable suspicion.” The Trump administration has ordered that agents within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) temporarily suspend “non-urgent” vehicle stops, following a series of fatal…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (592+ words) Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a father of a young daughter in Biddeford, Maine, is the second man ICE has killed in six days. This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot to death yet another immigrant in his car — a 26-year-old…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1400+ words) Activists are now watching to see whether the Trump administration will instead further privatize immigration detention. In a change of course, the Trump administration’s plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively scaled back....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (491+ words) ICE officials have pushed to double arrests after the White House called for an increase to 2,000 arrests per day. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained over 10,000 people across the U.S. over the past five days. According to The New York…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (444+ words) “Congress could not have meant for the guarantees it was affording to be so cavalierly swept aside,” wrote one judge. On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case that weakens protections for permanent residents,…...