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“The Mosquitoes Are Getting Worse”: Life Inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz Detention Camp

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Earlier this month, Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, joined several state lawmakers on a tour inside Alligator Alcatraz. When Eskamani entered a large white tent where detainees are separated into chain-link fenced areas, each containing 32 beds and three toilets, the men began chanting “Libertad!”—which means liberty in Spanish. Eskamani and the […]

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The Plainclothes Goon Squad

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When Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman of New York were barred last month from entering 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where immigrants reportedly have been detained in inhumane conditions, the two Democrats became the latest in a string of lawmakers refused entry from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. The denial was not […]

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ICE Agents Keep Snatching Asylum Seekers Immediately After Their Court Hearings

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This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers were arrested Friday directly after court hearings at San Francisco immigration court, continuing a weeks-long pattern of federal agents waiting just outside courtrooms and arresting people as they step into the halls.  Mission Local saw all three arrests, which took […]

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Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity

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Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.

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ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants

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The recent, nationwide phenomenon of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showing up at federal courthouses to arrest undocumented people after their immigration hearings has inspired an outpouring of volunteers who come to observe the hearings and assist the immigrants and their families. ICE personnel in Sacramento, California, clearly aren’t happy about this. Volunteers say […]

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Florida Tribe Joins the Fight Against “Alligator Alcatraz”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park.  In a motion to join a lawsuit, […]

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How ICE’s Arrest of a High School Student Activated a Massachusetts Town

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Marcelo Gomes da Silva is still trying to get back to his old life. The 18-year-old, who was born in Brazil, wants to enjoy the summer before his senior year at Milford High School in Massachusetts—go to pool parties, hang out with friends. Since his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he has been […]

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Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

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Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

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Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges

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Last week, while touring “Alligator Alcatraz,” the new immigrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump said he approved of a plan to use National Guard officers as immigration judges in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had been pushing the plan for months as a way to speed up deportations. “He didn’t even have […]

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Spending $200 Billion on ICE Is a Terrible Idea

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here.  There are many reasons Trump’s new giant domestic agenda, the so-called one big beautiful bill, will be a tragedy for our country—a mean-spirited, life-wrecking, community-destroying stain on our history—from the fact that it will gut our health care safety […]

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Senators Introduce a Bill Requiring Immigration Agents to Show Their Faces

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Senate Democrats are introducing legislation today that would force immigration officers around the country to wear clear identification while making public arrests. The VISIBLE Act, introduced by Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), would require officers to display their agency name or acronym as well as their personal name or badge number during […]

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Volunteers Train to Monitor ICE Raid Escalations in Los Angeles

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Volunteers keep watch with the aim of alerting the community to any Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. 

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