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.
Immigration
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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.
Posted inLaw and Justice
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.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants
USCIS’s new rule encourages immigrant families to forgo public benefits to which they are entitled or lose their green card eligibility.
Posted inLaw and Justice
No Minority Is Safe From Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
ICE is specifically targeting immigrant communities of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
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Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
Posted inWorking in America
Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security
In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
Posted inWorking in America
Top Farmworker Fear Is Family Separation
A first-of-its-kind survey by the UFW Foundation quantifies the impact of Trump’s mass deportation campaign on farmworkers, the vast majority of whom are undocumented.
Posted inLaw and Justice
ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention
Community members in Louisiana packed a board meeting to protest a camp for women and children last week. Only half the board showed up, and one member slept through the meeting.
Posted inWorking in America
The Crisis of Care Work
The end of Temporary Protected Status and Trump’s budget cuts make a bad situation worse.