Thousands of companies in the United States profit off people in U.S. immigration detention each year, and many of them are experiencing a windfall due to COVID-19. It’s time we hold these companies accountable.
Reporting from the ICE substation in Miramar, FL, Bud Conlin urges ICE to "Stop requiring immigrants to physically report until this danger has passed."
In this essay, Rachel Melancon describes how "the language of atrocity" has evolved over decades to avoid triggering our collective conscience.
“I’d say everyone is experiencing some level of depression and desperation."
"Out of the six people we have in our care right now, two of them told me stories of an Indian man being shot in front of them."F
"Her granddaughter was taken from her as an unaccompanied minor. She is 16, and now is likely in a detention center, a child’s prison, in the US."
ICE will not be renewing its contract with CoreCivic for the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, leaving people detained there facing an uncertain future.
"The hardest part of the waiting for K was the not knowing, the fear of missing something that would help her case to stand out. It felt like we were flailing most of the time."
A journalist turned immigration reporter talks about the political history of using criminal justice databases to target undocumented immigrants.
