More foreigners are being held each day under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than ever before in history, but far fewer are being deported overall. The Washington Post reported that about 50,000 immigrants have been detained on any given day this year and, according to ICE data, nearly…
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In 2018, More Than 60% of People Convicted of Smuggling Immigrants Were American
Despite President Donald Trump’s rhetoric that smugglers are dangerous cartel members, the majority of people convicted in federal court in 2018 were American men, according to data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Nearly 63% of smugglers were Americans, 75% were men and 58% had no prior criminal history. The use…
Michelle Obama Condemns ‘White Flight’ at Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago
Michelle Obama spoke out against “white flight” Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. She said she experienced it as a child growing up on the South Side of the city, but that it still exists today with immigrants as the “others.” “I want to remind white folks that…
1,556 More Immigrant Children Were Taken from Their Parents Than Disclosed, ACLU says
The Trump administration separated 1,556 more immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border than previously disclosed to the public, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. Most of the children are very young, 12 years old and under, according to The Washington Post, including more than 200 considered…
Mississippi Police Kill Innocent Man, Say He Had No Constitutional Rights Because He Is Undocumented
On July 24, 2017, police in Southaven, Miss., burst into 41-year-old Ismael Lopez’s house just before midnight. They were looking for a domestic violence suspect. They didn’t know at the time, but they were in the wrong person’s house, The Washington Post reported. Police knocked on Lopez’s door then opened…
Hundreds More Immigrant Parents, Children to be Detained in Texas Facility
The Karnes County Residential Center stopped housing immigrant families in the spring because the White House said it couldn’t transport people there because of so many trying to cross the border. But it will soon have hundreds of parents and their children again, according to The Washington Post. U.S. Immigration…
Video: ICE Officers Break Window, Drag Florencio Millan-Vazquez Out of Car
In Kansas City, Mo., a livestreamed video caught a violent attack on Florencio Millan-Vazquez. In the video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents smashed the driver’s side window of Millan-Vazquez’s car, dragged him out and arrested him. According to NBC News, ICE officers in Kansas City boxed in Millan-Vazquez while…
Carrizo Springs Child Migrant Detention Facility Closing After Less Than One Month
The Carrizo Springs detention center in Texas that was opened in response to the squalid conditions in which children were being detained by the Border Patrol is closing as early as this week after less than a month being open. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the…
Teenage American Citizen Francisco Erwin Galicia Released from ICE Custody After 3 Weeks
Francisco Erwin Galicia, an 18-year-old American-born U.S. citizen, was traveling north with a group of friends heading to his hometown of Edinburg, Texas, when they were stopped at a Border Patrol inland checkpoint. The Dallas Morning News first reported that Galicia was detained by Border Patrol because they suspected that…
University of Pennsylvania Condemns Law Professor Amy Wax for Racist Comments, Does Not Fire Her
Amy Wax, a Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, is on a bona fide paid vacation following condemnation of her “repugnant” racist views. Wax spoke at a “National Conservatism” conference this month suggesting the country would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” saying…