ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.
If due process is of no moment, then the government could snatch any American citizen off the street, falsely accuse them of being a “criminal alien,” ship them to an overseas prison, then disavow any responsibility to bring them back
Unions are calling for the release of abducted union members and political organizers who are being swept up in the Trump Administration's campaign of terror against working people. Sign this call and add your name.
Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.
For the cost of mass deportations, we could instead erase medical debt, provide universal school lunches, and end homelessness. The American Immigration Council estimates mass deportations will cost $88 billion per year over the course of a decade.
Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back. Both campaigns saw Reading as strategically critical and it happens to be nearly 70 percent Latino.
The Mon Valley, an area ravaged by deindustrialization just outside of Pittsburgh, has attracted thousands of new immigrants in recent years, a fact President-elect Donald Trump exploited in his successful campaign for the White House.
As fear of ICE raids and deportation mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the Los Angeles rebuild and to support their families.
Trump’s promise of widespread deportations won’t happen without defining a wave of new ‘illegals’ into existence. Immigration detention has become a $3 billion industry fusing for-profit prisons with immigration policies built to “secure” the border.
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