ICE Just Announced It Will Start to Deport People More Quickly—and Without Ever Seeing a Judge
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee waves to activists while boarding a flight in Yakima, Washington.David Ryder/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Immigration and Customs Enforcement just announced its agents can begin fast-track deportations of certain immigrants who can’t prove they’ve…
355 Days After He Was Detained, and Weeks After Recovering From COVID-19, a DACA Poster Child Is Released
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday night, less than two weeks after I wrote about Carlos Martinez, a literal poster child for DACA who had spent the last 11 months at the Eloy Detention Center—where he lost DACA and fell…
Trump Threatens to Escalate Federal Invasion of Portland
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to Marine One outside the White House en route to Texas Wednesday.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump said Wednesday that federal agents will “go in and clean it out” Portland, Oregon, if state and…
ICE Has to Release Kids From Detention. It Refuses to Let Their Parents Join Them.
Immigrants seeking asylum hold hands as they walk across the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. Eric Gay / AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Time has run out for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release the more than…
Guards Pepper-Spray Protesting Asylum Seekers at an ICE Detention Center
People in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody participate in outdoor recreational activities at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana used by ICE, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Guards at an immigration detention center in Louisiana pepper-sprayed asylum seekers this week who…
ICE Asked Parents to Choose Between Family Separation and Prolonged Detention—During a Pandemic
A young mother speaks on the phone from a family detention center in Texas in 2016.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at family detention centers presented parents with a horrifying question, according…