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After Inciting Deadly Capitol Terror Attack, Hawley Delays Confirmation of Biden Homeland Security Chief

Sen. Josh Hawley has refused to apologize for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does."

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'Complete Disregard for Human Life': US Agents Threaten Christmas Eve Raid Against Humanitarians Giving Aid to Refugees Near Border

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Laurel Grindy and Paul Nixon, both volunteers with Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans, a group that offers humanitarian aid to migrants in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands shared by the U.S. and Mexico, speak to a Border Patrol agent who was manning surveillance equipment near Nogales on July 14, 2019. (Photo: Daniel Woolfolk for AFP/via Getty Images)

One volunteer noted the cruel irony of such actions "on the eve of a holiday...

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Class-Action Suit Sought Over 'Disturbing Pattern of Inhumane Medical Abuse' of ICE Detainees Including Forced Hysterectomies

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

<p>A woman sits with her son Jaydan at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center after recently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)</p>

"In many instances the medically unindicated gynecological procedures," the...

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DACA recipients and their supporters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Federal Judge Delivers 'Huge Victory' for Immigrants, Ordering Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA

A woman checks her cell phone as she waits in line to enter the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C on November 29, 2017 for a hearing on Carpenter v. United States. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

ACLU Sues to Find Out How and Why Federal Agencies Are Accessing Americans' Cell Phone Location Data

Guatemalan deportees arrive in Guatemala City on a Department of Homeland Security plane on March 12, 2020. (Photo: Johan Ordoñez/AFP/Getty Images)

'Unconscionable': ICE Deported 33 Unaccompanied Guatemalan Children After Judge Ordered Halt to Practice

Following Outcry, US Government Halts Deportations of Women Who Allege Medical Abuse in ICE Detention—At Least for Now

Numerous immigrant rights organizations applauded President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images for PEOPLE En Espanol)

Demanding Reversal of Trump Cruelty, Immigrant Rights Groups Welcome Biden Pick of Mayorkas for DHS Secretary

The Abolish ICE movement has grown following grave human rights abuses against migrants committed by the Trump administration. (Photo: Joe Piette/Flickr cc)

Advocacy Groups Slam 'Shameful' Deportation of ICE Medical Abuse Survivors

A child, age 2, from Honduras cries as U.S. Border Patrol agents detain her family near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas on June 12, 2018. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

'Reckless Incompetence and Intentional Cruelty': House Issues Scathing Report on Trump Migrant Family Separation Policy

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) speaks as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib Lead Call for UN Probe Into Alleged DHS Human Rights Abuses

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

'Just Babies at the Time': ACLU Says It Can't Find Parents of Over 500 Children Separated From Families by Trump

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to roll back regulations, and he has largely delivered on his pledge. (Photo: Andrew Harrer/Getty Images)

Critics Say Deregulatory Rush Shows Trump White House Willing to 'Scorch the Earth Before They Go'

Nurses hold signs at a Vigil for Nurses Who've Died From Covid-19 at the U.S. Capital on July 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. They gathered at the Capitol demanding that the U.S. Senate pass the HEROES Act, which would provide much needed personal protective equipment and regulatory protections for frontline workers. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Labor Unions and Green Groups Sue Trump Admin. for 'Failure to Protect Frontline Workers From Covid-19'

Activists rally to abolish ICE in Philadelphia on July 5, 2018. (Photo: Joe Piette/Flickr Creative Commons)

Ex-Officials, Rights Groups Denounce 'Wildly Inappropriate' ICE Billboards

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Amnesty International - USA

Amnesty International USA Issues Rare Call for a Halt on Chad Wolf Nomination

Amnesty International - USA

Human Rights Organizations Urge Court to Safeguard Children’s Rights and Family Unity

ACLU

ACLU Comment on Reported DHS Plans to Deploy Federal Forces to Chicago

The International Rescue Committee

US Supreme Court Ruling that Children of Asylum-Seekers Must be Released from Detention Lacks Necessary Provisions for Parents; Risks Further Family Separation

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

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Loretta Graceffo

Activist Voices Missing From Corporate Coverage of Uprisings

Michael Winship

"The World's Most Dangerous Man" Picks on Portland to Pick Up Votes

William Astore

Killing Democracy in America

Josue De Luna Navarro

Need Money for a Green New Deal? Get It From ICE

John Feffer

Trump's Use of Federal Paramilitaries Is a Classic Tactic of Autocrats to Test How Far They Can Push Their Authority

Michael Winship

Why the Federal Cops in Portland Are All About Election Day

Harry Blain

Why Did Our Permanent Emergency Government Fail to Face the Emergency?

Danica Jorden

"Essential" Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Feed Themselves During Coronavirus

William deBuys

The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall

Abdi Soltani

Iranian Americans Have Rights, Too—No Matter What's Happening Abroad