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ICE deploys paramilitary units against sanctuary cities

March 7, 2020 Daniel G. Cardwell
In the wake of plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shooting an unarmed tourist from Mexico, President Donald Trump deployed a hundred members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) — the Border Patrol’s […]
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Behind Guatemalan youth’s death in ICE detention camp

December 17, 2019 Scott Scheffer
New information has come forward about the May 20 death of a child–16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez–while illegally held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) concentration camp near McAllen, Texas. Video footage of Carlos’ […]
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Denver: Hundreds march against ICE prison boss

September 28, 2019 Kevin Niemann
On Sept. 19, as part of a series of protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several hundred Coloradans took to the streets of Southwest Aurora, a Denver suburb, to protest Johnny Choate at […]
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Maryland Says ICE and camps have got to go

August 21, 2019 Andre Powell
On two consecutive weekends, Maryland residents came out to say “No!” to another U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.  Members of Youth Against War and Racism, the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, Migrante and […]
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ICE raids are union busting

August 17, 2019 Sharon Black
Workers’ rights under attack The writer is a former UFCW food processing plant worker. Aug. 8 — While the El Paso, Texas, community was still in mourning, deeply shaken and suffering from the racist mass […]
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Shouts of ‘Abolish ICE!’ confront California ICE director

August 1, 2019 Scott Scheffer
The Long Beach, Calif., home of Thomas Giles, acting regional director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was the site of a taco truck, a terrific mariachi band and protesters who were there to call […]
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Los Angeles: Community organizes self-defense against ICE raids

July 22, 2019 John Parker
Los Angeles On Saturday morning, July 13, activists heeded the call of Unión del Barrio (UdB) and gathered at a community center in Los Angeles to anxiously hear plans on community self-defense strategies against raids […]
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San Diego: Thousands at border rally demand ‘Let them all in!’

July 22, 2019 Zola Fish, Carl Muhammad and Mary Lou Finley
San Diego   In the early evening of July 12, about 2,000 people converged at Larsen Park in the U.S./Mexico border community of San Ysidro to protest the inhumane practices of the U.S. government in its […]
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Japanese Americans rally to resist Trump concentration camps

July 18, 2019 Maggie Vascassenno
Los Angeles On June 27, nearly 1,000 Angelenos, including children, adults and elders, gathered at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) to demand an end to the brutal U.S. policy of separating migrant and refugee […]
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Indigenous leader: ‘Authentic resistance’ needed to close concentration camps

July 17, 2019 Mahtowin Munro
Talk given by the co-leader of United American Indians of New England at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on July 12 at a vigil to close migrant detention camps. I am here as an […]