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After 50 years, some justice for Víctor Jara

The Afrikaner program treats whiteness as a refugee status and frames a former colonial ruling class as victims. It sits alongside a deportation campaign targeting people the president says are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Women who wake up every morning unsure when they will see their families again. Women who hold each other up, because sometimes it is the only support we have. Pregnancy becomes a higher risk here. Here are the stories of women in ICE detention.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.

Somali immigrants in the U.S. haven’t just fled violence—they’ve fled climate catastrophes that the U.S. has helped create. Missing from Trump's hate filled discourse is the pervasive role of climate change in people’s decisions to move from Somalia

How a Colorado slumlord’s lie about Venezuelan gangs was leveraged by the Trump administration to detain thousands, deploy warships, and rewrite the rules of immigration enforcement.

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

"Germany is using a term that was designed to protect Jews as a weapon not only to silence Palestinians, but also to silence Jews and Israelis who criticize the occupation.”