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Dreamers, Advocates Call for Urgent Action by Congress After Judge Rules DACA Illegal

"The stakes have been raised, and futures of hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients hang in the balance," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "We must move in this Congress to protect DACA and create a path to citizenship for all undocumented people."
Brett Wilkins ·
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Deported Veterans

Deported Veterans Initiative Could Fulfill Biden Promise to 'Bring Them Back'

Brett Wilkins ·

Joe Mejia, hunger striker

Report on ICE Reveals 'Cruelty and Coercion' Against Hunger Strikers

Jessica Corbett ·

Demonstrators protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in New York City on February 6, 2021.

There Is Nothing 'Civil' or Humane About the Detention of Noncitizens

Sarah Sherman-Stokes ·

Migrants attempting to cross in to the U.S. from Mexico are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the border on May 21, 2021 in San Luis, Arizona. (Photo: Nick Ut/Getty Images)

Rights Groups Warn Biden Fast-Tracking Asylum Cases Could Endanger Families

Jessica Corbett ·

Asylum-seeking migrants' families wait to be escorted by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States from Mexico on May 8, 2021 in Roma, Texas. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez Leads House Dems' Demand That Biden 'End the Carceral Approach to Immigration'

"Instead, we urge the Biden administration to pursue humane and just immigration policies that aim to end mass incarceration, criminalization, and deportation of immigrants."

Jessica Corbett ·

A young mother from Honduras and her 1-year-old child are detained by United States Border Patrol after rafting across the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, June 25, 2018, in Granjeno, Texas. (Photo Jahi Chikwendiu/<em>The Washington Post</em> via Getty Images)

With Just a Few Migrant Families to Reunite, ACLU Calls for Citizenship and No Future Separations

"We are happy that the first four families will be reunified this week, but this is only the beginning of a very long process involving more than 5,500 children."

Jessica Corbett ·

Construction championed by then-President Donald Trump continued on a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border on January 12, 2021 in Sasabe, Arizona. (Photo: Micah Garen/Getty Images)

In 'Huge Step Toward Justice,' Biden Cancels Trump Border Wall Projects Using Diverted Funds

"Now they must commit to restoring protected public lands and sacred sites, and tearing down sections of wall."

Jessica Corbett ·

Human rights advocates in New York City protesting the incarceration of immigrants on July 30, 2020.

ACLU Urges Biden to Shut Down Detention Facilities 'Used to Abuse and Traumatize Immigrants'

"It's time to end our nation's newest system of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people."

Andrea Germanos ·

Rights Groups Demand Records on Trump Admin's 'Death Flight' Deportations of Cameroonian Asylum Seekers

"The government's mass deportations of Cameroonian and other Black immigrants are inhumane and targeted."

Julia Conley ·

Capitol Police officers are overwhelmed by a mob of invading supporters of then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Probe Finds Capitol Police Leaders Ignored Key Intel Ahead of January 6 Insurrection

"Congress itself is the target," warned one internal threat assessment three days before the deadly attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

Brett Wilkins ·

A border activist documents if construction along the new U.S.-Mexico border wall built under former President Donald Trump has halted approximately 15 miles east of Sasabe, Arizona on January 28, 2021 in the Coronado National Forest. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Biden Pushed to Permanently Scrap 'Trump's Xenophobic and Racist Wall'

"The wall doesn't even begin to address any of the injustices plaguing the borderlands. It's nothing but a political prop for the GOP. Biden must stop it for good."

Kenny Stancil ·

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Maine Should Take This Chance to Defund the Local Intelligence Fusion Center

"The first decade of the 21st century is characterized by a blank check to grow and expand the infrastructure that props up mass surveillance. Fusion centers are at the very heart of that excess."

Matthew Guariglia ·

Migrant children rest inside a pod at the Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. (Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills/Pool via Getty Images)

As Biden Ramps Up Detention Capacity, Group Warns Contaminated Military Bases 'Are No Place' for Kids

"Immigrant children under the care of the federal government should not be in cages, let alone toxic sites in military bases," an Earthjustice attorney said.

Kenny Stancil ·

Unaccompanied minors are loaded into a U.S. Border Patrol transport van after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on March 25, 2021 in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

GOP's Border Stunt 'Nothing But a Divide and Distract Tactic' Say Immigrant Rights Advocates

"Their focus on the border is a cynical and strategic racist play for political gain."

Kenny Stancil ·

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