Johns Hopkins Said It Canceled Its ICE Contracts. Then, It Opened New Ones With Customs and Border Protection.
Mother Jones; Wikipedia; Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In September 2019, after more than a year of protests, Johns Hopkins University announced that it would end its contracts with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The contracts totaled…
How Greece Secretly Adopted the World’s Most Brazen—and Brutal—Way of Keeping Out Refugees
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was a clear spring morning on the Greek island of Chios, and the waves pummeled the shoreline, whipping the Aegean into a froth. Antonis Bourmas’ house clung to the edge of a rocky point that faced…
Customs and Border Agents Spied on Journalists—the Latest Sign They Are Out of Control
Federal agents outside the Mark Hatfield Courthouse in Portland, Oregon on. July 4th, 2020.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Many Americans are likely unaware that Customs and Border Protection, a Homeland Security Department division with more than 60,000 employees, is engaged…
Biden Vastly Expands “Protected Areas” Where ICE Can’t Arrest Immigrants
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American Missionaries and Their Families Have Been Kidnapped in Haiti
People walk amid smoke that came from burning tires during a protest organized by friends and relatives of Biana Velizaire, 27, who was kidnapped for five days by gang members in Port-au-Prince last month.Rodrigo Abd/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A gang…
“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Butler County Jail, a…