State lawmakers have forbidden local police from participating in mass deportation. Some sheriffs think they are above the law.
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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What Voter Suppression Looks Like in Practice
Poll observers in Tennessee recorded dozens of incident reports in their primary, a few months before this year’s highly contested midterm elections.
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Military Lawyers Prosecuting Civilian Crimes Across the Country
In a move with little precedent, Judge Advocates (JAGs) are showing up in local courtrooms to prosecute street crime.
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A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, died by suicide after being fitted with a tracking device by ICE. ‘That ankle monitor is what killed him,’ a family friend said.
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Two Americas: Anti-ICE Fighters vs. Bootlickers
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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Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.
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Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion
The order came the day before the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.