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'Let Her In': Outrage Swirls After Six-Year-Old Girl With Downs Syndrome and Heart Condition Turned Away at US Border

Shoes are left by people at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018 during a protest rally by several American mayors against the US administration's family separation policy.

Outraged Response Forces US Border Patrol to Allow 19-Year-Old Mother to Stay With Sick Newborn

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Customs and Border Patrol agents at the Scripps-Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, California with a child carrier.

"If this is what happens when a group of attorneys and reporters are looking, imagine what happens when they are not."

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'Sick to my Stomach': Explosive Report Details ICE Negligence in Medical Care for Detained Children Resulted in Deaths, Preventable Surgeries

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

A young migrant girl sits on the floor as her father, recently released from federal detention with other Central American asylum seekers, gets a bus ticket at a bus depot on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas.

"ICE is operating exactly as the Trump administration wants it to when migrants...

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Guess What Happened After ICE, Which Has Torn Thousands of Families Apart, Tried to Honor Human Rights Day on Twitter

Jenna McGuire, staff writer

During 2018, 396,448 people were booked into ICE custody: A daily average of 42,188 immigrants. 256,000 were deported the same year. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

In 2019, a record-breaking 70,000 children were held in ICE custody.

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A Nativity scene in Claremont, California has sparked discussion and controversy.

"It Is About Perseverance Against Cruelty": California Church's Nativity Scene Shows Holy Family Separated in Cages

Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19. By the next morning, he was dead. (Photo: via Facebook)

'Impeach Trump for This': Video Shows Final Hours of Teen's Horrible Death in US Immigration Detention Center

Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, seen here in 2016, tore into acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday night at a Washington, D.C. bar.

"God Bless Martin O'Malley": Former Maryland Governor Takes Trump Administration Immigration Hardliner Ken Cuccinelli to Task at DC Bar

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attends Women's March 2019 on January 19, 2019 in New York City.

'An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier': AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People

At a Japanese American-led direct action Monday, immigrant rights activists attempted to confront CEO Jenni Nakamoto over her company's contract with ICE, which they say represents a particular affront to human rights given her family's history at internment camps during World War II.

Activists Confront CEO's "Disgusting" Use of Family's History at WWII Incarceration Camps to Justify Propping Up ICE's Migrant Detention

A young migrant girl sits on the floor as her father, recently released from federal detention with other Central American asylum seekers, gets a bus ticket at a bus depot on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas.

Causing 'Profound' Trauma, Trump Administration Detained Record-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019

As seen through fencing, migrants—including a young child—stand while being detained by Department of Homeland Security police after crossing to the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on June 27, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

'Relentless Cruelty': Proposed Trump Administration Rule Would Keep Asylum-Seekers From Applying for Work Permits for a Year

No Music For ICE

#NoMusicForICE: 300+ Musicians Pledge to Boycott Amazon-Sponsored Events and Partnerships Over Contracts With US Agencies

As seen through fencing, migrants—including a young child—stand while being detained by Department of Homeland Security police after crossing to the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on June 27, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

'Intentionally Placing Children in Harm's Way': Report Details How Trump Policy Put 13,000 Kids in Tent Cities

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's special agent pictured June 19, 2018.

'If You Work for ICE, Quit': Never Again Launches Career Services Site for Agents Looking for Change

As seen through fencing, migrants—including a young child—stand while being detained by Department of Homeland Security police after crossing to the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on June 27, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

'Dystopian' Plan by Trump Administration to Harvest DNA From Undocumented Immigrants Draws Outrage From Rights Advocates

'Unconscionable': Asylum-Seekers In Texas Detention Center Report Being Denied Cancer and Mental Health Treatment

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Voces de la Frontera

Voces de la Frontera Wins Victory for Immigrants’ Rights Movement with the Adoption of Non-Collaboration Policy Between Police and ICE

Congressional Progressive Caucus

Congressional Progressive Caucus Leaders Announce Opposition to FY20 Minibus Funding DHS and DOD

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Sues DHS to Obtain Information About the Agency’s Use of Rapid DNA Testing on Migrant Families at the Border

Fight for the Future

30+ Civil Rights Organizations Call On Elected Officials to Stop Amazon’s Doorbell Surveillance Partnerships With Police

Amnesty International

Trump Administration Uses Disaster Relief to Fund a Disaster of Its Own Making

Voces de la Frontera

Voces de la Frontera Responds to ICE Detention of 680 People in Mississippi

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Eunice Cho

The Trump Administration Weakens Standards for ICE Detention Facilities

Tarek Ismail, Scarlet Kim

A Secret CBP Team Is Targeting and Detaining Innocent Travelers. We’re Suing.

Saira Hussain

California DOJ Cuts Off ICE Deportation Officers from State Law Enforcement Database

Unicorn Riot

ICE Case Management Handbook Based on Federal Law Enforcement "System of Systems"

Robert C. Koehler

Letting Our Values Out Of Their Cage

Robert C. Koehler

Envisioning a United World

Michael Felsen

Deporting Workers Makes America Less Safe

Tara Tabassi, Mariam Iskajyan

On This Day of Thanks and Mourning, a Call to Demilitarize the US Border

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

A Violent Epidemic Is Taking American Lives

Rose Bookbinder

After Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Immigrant Workers Are Organizing