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Massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But Trump's ICE is aiming to convert them into detention camps

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

'Dystopian' Trump Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Detention Centers Exposed

While Republicans cry “invasion” and Democrats placate them with hard-line border policy, immigrants languish in prisons or die in dangerous passage. A rational approach to immigration must both address the causes of displacement and protect those w

Biden’s administration and the Democrat-led Congress are funneling the lion’s share of taxpayer money for “alternatives to detention” into an existing for-profit surveillance program — while spending little on community services.

A Georgia detention center with the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the nation recently expanded the population of immigrants it detains to include women.

Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained nearly 1,000 migrant children for longer than one year since fall 2014.

It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy.

Sharp reductions in spending on police, prisons, and the Pentagon could free up hundreds of billions of dollars for programs that might begin to fill the gap in spending on public investments in communities of color and elsewhere.