ICE Is Still Holding Immigrants Vulnerable to Coronavirus. ACLU Just Sued to Let Some Out.
Detainees at the Strafford County Detention Center wave back to marchers rallying near the center where ICE detainees are being held, in Dover, New Hampshire.JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images The American Civil Liberties Union and the Northwest Immigration Rights Project sued ICE Monday afternoon, calling on the agency to release some detainees at an immigration detention…
When Climate Change Drove All the Men Away
A woman removes weeds from a family farm plot of corn and beans in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Bill Lambrecht/Zuma This piece was originally published in the National Observer and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Miles short of the Mexico-US border, rough hands yanked Javier Hernandez from the trunk. They beat him,…
Sonia Sotomayor Calls Out the Supreme Court Majority for Its Trump Bias
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press) Following a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling issued Friday night, the Trump administration can move ahead with enforcing a rule designed to make it harder for poor and working-class immigrants to get green cards. Last month, the court split along the same lines to remove a nationwide injunction from a…
Jeff Sessions Hopes You’ve Forgotten What His “Zero Tolerance” Policy Actually Did
Former US Attorney General Jeff SessionsJay Reeves/AP In a new ad for his Alabama Senate campaign released last week, Jeff Sessions brags about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy he oversaw as attorney general. The ad touts the policy as proof of Sessions’ ability to “take action” on immigration and includes clips of the…
Trump Is Blowing Up Native Burial Grounds to Build His Wall
Organ Pipe, Arizona, USA – Ongoing construction of border wall at Organ Pipe National MonumentBob Torrez/ZUMA Wire Contractors hired by Customs and Border Patrol began blasting ground last week in areas of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the latest step in President Donald Trump’s $646 million plan to build a 30-foot wall along 63 miles…
Ranchers Feel Blindsided by Trump’s Wall
Part of the border fence in Arizona.Astrid Galvan/AP This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Since 1994, the Malpai Borderlands Group, a coalition of ranchers, has worked to steward approximately 800,000 acres of rangeland in southern Arizona and New Mexico. The group started…