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Detainees say officials give them little information and are not doing enough to reduce their risk.

As communities across the world are confronting the serious toll of COVID-19..., we at Critical Resistance want to amplify the grave concerns facing the imprisoned population, which is one of the most vulnerable groups in this time.

Many victims were asylum-seekers attacked or killed by the gangs they originally fled.

If we truly want to live in a world that is equal, just and inclusive to all, a more honest conversation is required about the politics of borders and migration.

The movement against racist immigration policing and the detention of child migrants in San Diego in the 1980s offers important lessons in keeping open borders at the forefront of activism.

Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.

Plaintiffs claim under 10% of women and children at a center in Texas pass their initial ‘credible fear’ interview, down from 97%

Although Trump’s unabashedly anti-immigrant agenda has amplified the brutality of the border regime, he is merely capitalizing on a massive, entrenched network of corporate power and political influence.

Throughout the 20th century, US corporations have staked out Central America for fruit and coffee growing, metal mining and logging, and water for beverage processing – all at the expense of indigenous land and environmental rights.