Tags Share Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid When Trump announced on Aug. 11 that he would deploy hundreds of National Guard members and federalize the local police to “take back” the capital, he framed the mission as a crackdown on violent crime. He cited cases of…
Tags Share ‘Horrific’: Report Reveals Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children at US ICE Facilities A new report has found hundreds of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers. The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and…
Tags Share In President Trump’s second term, ICE has ramped up deportations in NYC by arresting migrants during routine check-ins at immigration offices and courts. New data shows over 2,300 arrests since January, many of them longtime residents with no criminal record. Inside detention, migrants report inhumane conditions, including lack of medical care, overcrowding, and…
Tags Share Deported by the U.S. under President Trump’s mass removal policy, over 250 Venezuelan migrants were secretly sent to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison where they endured months of abuse, torture, and isolation. In a harrowing investigation by The Washington Post, detainees describe sexual assault, starvation, and beatings inside a facility built for gang members.…
Tags Share ‘It is Hell’: Migrants Returning to Venezuela Describe Life in El Salvador Prison Where U.S. Sent Them Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and other officials have said many of the immigrants were physically and psychologically tortured during their detention in El Salvador, airing on state television videos of some of the men describing the…
Tags Share A Colombian woman who was a victim of human trafficking is suing the Baker County ICE detention center in Florida, alleging that officers stripped, restrained, and mocked her while she was in the midst of a mental health crisis. Detained after asking for feminine hygiene products, she was placed in solitary confinement for…
Tags Share “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.…
Tags Share U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans The Trump administration’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was overseeing a deal to free several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela in exchange for sending home about 250 Venezuelan migrants the United States had deported…
Police use of lethal force in the United States is on the rise, with more police killings reported in 2024 than any other year on record. This gruesome milestone was reached due to increased access to military-grade weaponry, aggressive suppression of civic space, and the continuation of a historical pattern of violence against Black people.
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