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US Department of Homeland Security

'The US Government Has Scarred My Daughter and Me for Life': Families Sue Trump Over Deliberate and 'Inexplicable Cruelty'

'We Will Be That Lantern on the Shore': Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley Rally With TPS Holders Outside Trump White House

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Pressley, AOC

Demonstration follows federal suit charging administration's effort to end protected status motivated by 'racial animus' of president

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#DefundHate: Progressives Tell Democrats Trump's Anti-Immigration Agenda 'Does Not Deserve a Dime' More

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We're here to say that an agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically...

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'Crimes Against Humanity': Abuses Persist at Immigrant Detention Centers as DHS Hands Out 'Waivers' to Contractors

Julia Conley, staff writer

Contractors have been granted waivers to use tear gas on detainees and after...

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House Progressives to Shutdown Negotiators: 'Not Another Dollar' for Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda

asylum-seeker

Trump's 'Illegal Return of Asylum Seekers Scheme' Has First Known Victim

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

Merkley Calls for FBI Perjury Probe into Homeland Secretary Nielsen After Child Detention Memo Leaked

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.-Ore.)

Leaked Memo Reveals Trump Administration's "Immoral" Plan to "Traumatize" Migrant Children

Prosecutors Mull 'Assault' Charges After Videos Show Children Being Dragged and Hit at Arizona Immigration Detention Center

Investigation Finds at Least $800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018

As CBP Orders Medical Checks for Minors in US Custody After Two Deaths, Critics Ask: 'Why Are They Jailing Children' In the First Place?

Activists project text and a picture of Jakelin Caal onto the home of CBP's Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in Virginia. (Photo: CREDO Action/Screenshot)

Denouncing 7-Year-Old's Death, UN Rights Expert Demands US Halt Child Detentions

5-Month-Old's Pneumonia Diagnosis Provokes More Condemnation of the 'Ice Boxes' Asylum-Seekers Are Forced Into at Border

migrant mom and child

Judge Strikes Down Trump DOJ's "Attempt to Obliterate Asylum Protections" for Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence

Maria Meza's family gets tear-gassed

Despite Intimidation Tactics, Mom and Kids Tear-Gassed at US Border Finally Allowed to File for Asylum

'This Is a Child Prison': Visiting Texas Detention Center, Democrats Demand Release of Children to Family Sponsors

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Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Lawsuit Alleges ICE, DHS, and Vermont DMV Targeting Immigrant Leaders in Retaliation for Activis

Credo Action

Activists Protest Outside "Child Snatcher" DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's Northern Virginia Home Demanding Her Resignation...

Free Press

More Than 40 Racial-Justice and Civil-Liberties Groups Call on DHS to Release Inflammatory 'Race Paper'...

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

CAIR Calls on DHS to Revise or Drop Report Targeting Muslim Immigrants, Residents with Long-Term Profiling and Surveillance

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

CAIR Urges Trump Administration Not to Appoint Wisc. Sheriff Who Supported 'Patrols' in Muslim Neighborhoods to DHS Post...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

No Passwords at U.S. Border, Says New "Fly Don't Spy" Coalition...

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Ana Suda

Border Patrol Detained Me for Speaking Spanish in Montana. Then My Town Turned Against Me.

Neema Singh Guliani, Michelle Fraling

Congress, Don’t Give DHS Unrestricted Authority to Build a 'Smart Wall'

Tracy L. Barnett

How Do 2,800 Migrant Children in Detention Spend the Holidays?

Karen Greenberg

America’s Mixed Messages: On Board the USS Detention

Leonard Pitts Jr.

Would God Really Snatch a Suckling Baby From Its Mother's Breast?

Christopher Brauchli

Innocent Infants

Libby Schaaf

No, Mr. President, I Am Not Obstructing Justice

Kevin Gosztola

Trump Administration Turns ICE Into Tool for Political Repression

Christopher Brauchli

Who Knows What Other Surprises the Fool Has in Store for Us?

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Trump’s Call for Police Brutality Is No Joke

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