The workers say their pay and workloads keep them from providing the best possible representation for their clients.
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Facing Rising Caseloads and Stagnant Pay, Hundreds of NYC Legal Workers Strike Read Post »
This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired. They’re the latest in a series of ICE actions, […]
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Abrego Garcia’s release will be delayed by 30 days as his lawyers ponder additional protective order requests.
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Abrego Garcia Wins Bail, Can’t Be Detained Again Without Notice, Judge Orders Read Post »
Advocates have decried the ruling, warning that it will jeopardize the lives of community members.
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Appeals Court Strikes Down New Jersey’s Ban on Private Prisons Read Post »
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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One prisoner said detainees were was being forced to eat meals with their hands shackled behind their backs.
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Report Says Florida Immigration Prisons Are Violating Human Rights Standards Read Post »
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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The Plainclothes Goon Squad Read Post »
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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ICE Agents Keep Snatching Asylum Seekers Immediately After Their Court Hearings Read Post »
The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing gender-based violence in other countries to immigrate to the United States. On Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is part of the Justice Department, determined that a person can’t seek asylum for persecution based on their sex alone—or sex and nationality. “It’s […]
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For Women Seeking Asylum in the United States, Things Are About to Get Harder Read Post »
It is designed to help incarcerated people who are vulnerable to being transferred by ICE following their release.
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New Helpline Aims to Disrupt the “Prison-to-ICE Deportation Pipeline” Read Post »
The masked, plainclothes ICE agents terrorizing immigrant communities are indistinguishable from racist vigilantes.
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By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators Read Post »
On Friday, María Daniela learned that her younger brother, Neri Alvarado Borges, and more than 200 other Venezuelans sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador were being released after spending more than four months in an infamous prison. “Now it’s done,” María Daniela said in a call from Venezuela. “Now we can say we […]
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