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US Department of Homeland Security

As Border Chief John Sanders Resigns, Demands for Trump Officials to Be Held to Account for 'Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse'

Advocates Say Illinois Ban on Private Immigrant Detention Centers, a 'Firewall' Against Trump's Attacks on Immigrants, Should Be Model for Country

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

"We will not allow private entities to profit off of the intolerance of this president."

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'Not On Our Watch': Rights Groups Rally to Help Immigrant Communities Ahead of Reported Weekend Raids by ICE

Julia Conley, staff writer

"ICE is doing this to not just rip apart hundreds of families apart but also to...

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Migrant Children Imprisoned in Texas Detail Border Patrol's "Level of Inhumanity"

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.

"We've seen the worst conditions that we've seen in the last three years of...

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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.

Trump Prepares to Open New 'Captured Children' Facility in Texas as Hundreds of Rights Groups Call for Decriminalizing Migration

Central American migrants cross the Rio Grande river in Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on June 12, 2019, before turning themselves to US Border Patrol agents to ask for asylum.

Horror on the Border: Slew of Recent Incidents Highlight Human Rights Crisis

DHS Agents Treat Undocumented Immigrants as Criminals in Hospitals, Shackling Them to Beds and Impeding Care: Study

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill June 6, 2017.

Warren and Jayapal Launch Probe into 'Rapid, Cynical, and Unethical' Profiteering Off Trump Child Detention Policy by Former Top Aide John Kelly

'Beyond Barbaric': Report Shows Reality Inside Overcrowded US Detention Center

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Trump's New "Fundamentally Cruel" Policy Would Effectively Bar Central American Refugees From Seeking Asylum

'This Is Criminal': Whistleblower Reports Thousands of Gay, Trans, and Disabled Immigrants Have Been Held in Solitary Confinement by ICE

A Guatemalan mother and her baby boy, 8 months, both asylum seekers, sit in a shelter for migrants who are seeking asylum on May 17, 2019 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Following 'Appalling' Deaths of Migrant Children in CBP Custody, Sen. Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers From White House

Then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visiting the south Texas border on November 14, 2018.

Objections by Nielsen and Others to Trump Plan for Mass Arrests Were 'Logistical and Technical,' Report Shows, Not Moral or Ethical

A protester in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2018.

'Outrageous': Company Spied on Family Separation Protests, Gave Info to DHS

'Unjustified and Unnecessary': DHS Could Use Facial Recognition on 97% of Departing Airline Passengers

Migrants walk into the interior of Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico on Oct. 21, 2018.

'Egregious Abuse of Power': Report Says Trump Offered Pardon to CBP Head if He Broke Law and Blocked Asylum-Seekers

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Amnesty International - USA

Congress Must Reject Inhumane DHS Policy Proposals

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...

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Rachel Levinson-Waldman

How ICE and Other DHS Agencies Mine Social Media in the Name of National Security

Naureen Shah

DHS Is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

Sonali Kolhatkar

In Trump's America, Even Nielsen Wasn't Cruel Enough

Brian Tashman

Kirstjen Nielsen’s Brutal and Calamitous Leadership of the Department of Homeland Security Comes to an End

Cynthia Pompa, Shaw Drake

The Department of Homeland Security's Attack on Asylum Seekers at the Border Continues

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?

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