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Jun 18, 2020

We have to get these medically vulnerable people out of ICE detention. Now.

The ACLU of Pennsylvania is in federal court this week, arguing for a classwide injunction that would immediately release from ICE custody medically vulnerable people from immigration detention in Clinton,...

By Vanessa Stine

Jun 12, 2020

ICE Uses the Failed ‘Broken Windows’ Mentality, With Deadly Consequences

A few weeks ago, Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, a 57-year-old man who had diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems tested positive for COVID-19 and died in immigration detention shortly after.

By Muneeba Talukder

Jun 5, 2020

Curtailing the Enforcers of White Supremacy

America is in a historic moment. The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis has blown the lid off of 400 years of white supremacy on American soil.

Jun 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter Statement

His name was George Floyd.

May 21, 2020

It’s Time for ICE’s Public Reckoning

Since the day that President Barack Obama handed the keys of his administration's deportation machine to Donald Trump, immigrants’ rights advocates and civil libertarians knew that an already desperate...

By Muneeba Talukder

May 14, 2020

ICE Tried to Deport a Teenager at 3am. Our Legal Director Stopped Them.

My Sleepy Saturday Night that Wasn’t (Sleepy)!

Two months into the lockdown, after another week of crazy hours on fast-moving COVID-related litigation, I was looking forward to an uneventful...

By Witold "Vic" Walczak

My Sleepy Saturday Night that Wasn’t (Sleepy)!

Two months into the lockdown, after another week of crazy hours on fast-moving COVID-related litigation, I was looking forward to an uneventful...

By Witold "Vic" Walczak