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How Local Policing Serves as an “Automatic Alert System” For ICE

3 years ago Democracy Now

“Massive #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations across the U.S. are bringing thousands of people into the streets, where advocates say undcoumented immigrants may face the presence of Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials. Last week a viral video showed ICE agents working with New York police to detain protesters at a George Floyd rally. Mizue Aizeki, deputy director at…

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COVID-19 Deaths in ICE Custody Spark New Calls for Mass Release of Prisoners

3 years ago Democracy Now

“Calls are growing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release people from detention during the pandemic, as two people have died from COVID-19 while in custody. We speak with The Intercept’s Ryan Devereaux, who reported on how Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, suffered horrifying neglect before he passed away….

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ICE Detentions Bring Profits to Louisiana, But at What Cost?

3 years ago PBS NewsHour

“The rapid expansion of ICE detentions in Louisiana has injected depressed rural communities with a new source of income while increasing profits for private companies. With more than 51,000 migrants detained by ICE, upwards of 8,000 are being held in Louisiana jails and prisons. Joanne Elgart Jennings reports in the second of a two-part series…

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Advocates Want to close George ICE Jail where four Immigrants have died

4 years ago Democracy Now

“44-year-old immigrant from Mexico died last week at Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the United States and one that has been plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse for years. Pedro Arriago-Santoya was the fourth person to die at Stewart in just two years and the seventh person to die…

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Cruelty Is the Point: Communities Fight Back at Threat of ICE Raids

4 years ago Democracy Now

“We speak with Elora Mukherjee, a professor of law and director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the past 12 years representing immigrant children and adults along the U.S.-Mexico border. “The raids will leave children without their parents. The raids will leave children without their caregivers,” Mukherjee says. “The…

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How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers

4 years ago Democracy Now

“Since 2012, ICE has used solitary confinement as a routine punishment for thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers locked up in immigration jails across the country. We look at a new, damning investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that has revealed this widespread abusive use of solitary confinement in immigration jails overseen by…

Democracy Now!

Interview with immigration activists who infiltrated an ICE jail

4 years ago Democracy Now

“We wanted to send a message to the ICE officers, Border Patrol: Every single time you detain somebody, could they be an infiltrator?” says Mohammad Abdollahi, an undocumented immigrants rights activist who starred in The Infiltrators, a film about organizing detainees in Florida’s Broward Transitional Facility. We spoke with the immigrant rights activist at the…

Immigration

Latino Paradox Vol 12 -ICE Invades Sanctuary Cities

6 years ago Feature

The Latino Paradox refers to the fact that — for America’s 54 million Latinos — these really are, as Dickens would put it, the best of times and the worst of times. We’re told we have all this power, and yet we’ve never felt more powerless. Two longtime friends — Syndicated Columnist Ruben Navarrette and…

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