The War on Immigrants
ICE Removes Spanish-Language Training Requirement for New Recruits
Instead of requiring a five-week Spanish-language course, ICE translations would be done by an unspecified technology.
Justice
The War on Immigrants
ICE Deportation Airline Avelo Relies on Blue-State Subsidies. Will Dem Governors Do Anything About It?
Activists want blue states to stop handing out cash to Avelo, the airline that operated 10 percent of ICE’s deportation flights.
Voices
Trump’s Trial Run for a Police State
President Trump’s “federalization” of Washington, D.C., is a test of the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy.
The War on Immigrants
ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker
The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hard hat and safety vest works for ICE.
Voices
Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.
Monuments to racism license racist violence. White supremacists, for their part, know this well.
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ICE Contractor Locked a Mother and Her Baby in a Hotel Room for Five Days
Valentina Galvis’s case raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up its deportation campaign.
The War on Immigrants
Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center
The death, the first in the Northeast in ICE custody this year, came at the largest immigration jail in the region.
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What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.
“My Client Was Tortured Today” — The Painful Execution of Byron Black
Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.
Tennessee Is About to Execute Byron Black — Despite His Intellectual Disability
Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.