• DANGEROIUS SPEECHDangerous Speech in Disguise: The White House’s New “Aliens” Website Is Not a Joke

    By Susan Benesch and Rebecca Hamilton

    The official White House website has launched a new page titled, “Aliens,” which looks like a video game, with stars twinkling in a dark sky behind spooky neon green text. The page, echoing the rhetoric and the great replacement conspiracy theory, pushes inflammatory buttons familiar to experts on rhetoric, rhetoric which increases the risk of intergroup atrocities by instilling deep fear of members of another group. Such rhetoric, that one of us has named “dangerous speech” for its capacity to inspire violence, can demonize any human group.

  • IMMIGRATIONDHS Threatens to Halt Customs Processing at Airports in Sanctuary Cities

    By Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square

    Major airports across the country could soon freeze customs processing and cancel all international flights if sanctuary cities continue bucking federal immigration enforcement operations.

  • IMMIGRATIONRed States Press Social Service Workers into Immigration Enforcement

    By Shalina Chatlani

    An increasing number of conservative states are mandating that state and local social service providers verify and report the immigration status of the people they serve — in some cases threatening stiff penalties for public employees who fail to comply.

  • IMMIGRATIONFear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders

    By Naisha Roy, Francesca D'Annunzio, and J. David McSwane

    Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.

  • THE PROBLEM WITH ICESix Deaths in Six Weeks: What to Know About ICE Detentions in Texas

    By Lomi Kriel and Colleen DeGuzman

    Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.

  • DEPORTATIONSCommunities Fight ICE Detention Centers, but Have Few Tools to Stop Them

    By Kevin Hardy

    Communities across the country are facing the prospects of ICE building massive detention centers – without any input from local authorities about the communities’ permitting, planning, and zoning processes. The reason: The federal government doesn’t have to follow local zoning rules. Congress has given ICE $45 billion for increased immigration detention. by Congress last summer.

  • DEPORTATIONSICE Arrest Shines Light on Undocumented Irish Population in Trump’s America

    By Liam Kennedy

    This schism between settled and sojourner Irish in the U.S. is rarely mentioned, yet significant. The undocumented Irish take on a symbolic resonance, disrupting the common success narrative of how the Irish “made it” in the US. In the past, the law was applied leniently to overstays who were building a life in the U.S. But in the second Trump administration, this is no lionger the case.

  • IMMIGRANT DETENTIONAs Trump Administration Pushes for More Detentions, Immigrants’ Options for Parole Shrink

    By Tim Henderson

    Despite immigration detention numbers receding from recent highs and even as conservative judges are opting to release more detainees by rejecting President Donald Trump’s mass detention policy, tools for detainees to seek release from ICE mandatory detention policy or appeal cases are disappearing.

  • THE PROBLEM WITH ICEHealth Care Workers Want ICE Out of Hospitals, and Blue States Are Responding

    By Shalina Chatlani

    As the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown, health care workers in multiple states say ICE is increasing its presence in health care facilities, deterring people from seeking medical care and creating chaos that jeopardizes the safety of their patients.

  • IMMIGRATIONThe Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building

    By Melissa Sanchez and Jodi S. Cohen

    The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”

  • THE ICE PROBLEMICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force – It Is One, and That Makes It Harder to Curb

    By Erica De Bruin

    ICE and CBP meet many but not all of the most salient definitions of a “paramilitary force.” Both are also not subject to the same constitutional restrictions that apply to other law enforcement agencies. ICE and CBP thus bear some resemblance to the informal paramilitaries used in many countries for “regime maintenance,” carrying out political repression along partisan and ethnic lines, even though they are official agents of the state.

  • THE ICE PROBLEMLicense to Kill? The Legal Black Hole of Federal Misconduct

    By Mike Fox

    The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents reveals a disturbing reality: everyday Americans falling victim to a system that enables—or even encourages—gross misconduct. To understand how we got here, we have to look at the bolted-shut doors of the American courthouse—a legal regime designed to ensure federal agents remain untouchable.

  • THE ICE PROBLEMDemocratic AGs Stress Importance of Citizen-Generated Evidence in Challenging ICE

    By Erika Bolstad

    Cellphone video has emerged as a powerful rebuttal to Trump’s – and Trump officials’ — version of events, at a time when the federal government has restricted state and local investigators from accessing potential evidence to pursue their own investigations into excessive force and fatal shootings by immigration agents in their jurisdictions.

  • THE ICE MESSFootage, Documents at Odds with DHS Accounts of Immigration Enforcement Incidents

    By Amanda Watford

    As a growing number of encounters between civilians and DHS agents are scrutinized in court records and on social media, federal officials are returning to a familiar response: self-defense. Often, this line of defense is contradicted by the evidence. Still, as Trump’s crackdown intensifies, people face steep barriers to holding federal agents accountable.

  • ICE’S TACTICSStates, Cities Are Hard-Pressed to Fight Violent ICE Arrest Tactics

    By Tim Henderson

    State leaders who want to curb the increasingly violent arrest tactics of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are struggling to push back. Potential approaches include state civil rights laws and a refusal to cooperate.