Elected officials across the country are fighting the federal government’s mass deportation campaign with new laws and funding. But some states are welcoming the shock troops.
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Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights
The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.
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20th Immigrant Dies in Trump’s Detention Camps
The increase in deaths can’t be attributed to population increase, according to a new Human
Rights Watch analysis.
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Trump Moves to Hide Immigrant Detention Conditions as Prisoners Describe ‘Torture’
The administration is eroding the last line of oversight for immigration detention as it spends $1.3 billion on renovating a pair of warehouses to imprison even more immigrants.
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ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants
The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win.
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For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children.
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State and Local Contracts Prop Up For-Profit Prisons
CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.