The rule, which went into effect this month, prohibits a wide range of activities, and activists fear the Trump administration will use the regulation to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.
Immigration
Posted inLaw and Justice
‘We’re the Resistance’
Rossana Pérez arrived in Los Angeles as a refugee more than 40 years ago. Now, the professor, writer, and activist reflects on how to cope with the terror and trauma of ICE raids in her city.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Presidential Construction Projects
David Dayen and Maureen Tkacik talk about the ICE raid in South Shore Chicago, in the shadow of the Obama Presidential Center, and the destruction of the East Wing of the White House in Washington.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Two Months of ICE Terror in Chicago
Chicago is a notoriously segregated city, which means that some neighborhoods have been completely transformed by ICE’s presence, while in non-Latino neighborhoods, it’s mostly been business as usual. But the response to the federal incursion knows no boundaries.
Posted inHousing
The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago
Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.
Posted inPolitics
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
Immigration enforcement is working hand in hand with the H-2A program.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who didn’t know what to make of him, and knocked on the building’s boarded-up front door. No reply. Another knock; nothing. Then Herrera walked to the side […]
Posted inTAP
Who Picked the Crops?
Today on TAP: How ICE favored growers at the expense of farmworkers
Posted inWorking in America
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Posted inPolitics
Michelle Wu, the Boston Beacon of Progress
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s first-term achievements shine, but numerous challenges persist after her re-election.
