16+ hour, 51+ min ago   (800+ words) More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1079+ words) Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator. Louisiana residents are mobilizing in opposition to the immigration jail with the help of CENLA Activism, a grassroots group of concerned residents…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (172+ words) Philosopher George Yancy analyzes the contemporary expression of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “entrails of whiteness.” The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary. Two and a half decades after…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (441+ words) Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets. “If we’re serving a warrant, we will be where we need to be,” Mullin said. “Just having the possibility of them showing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (491+ words) People should not have to wonder if “standing with their neighbors will put them in a federal file,” one minister said. Minnesota faith leaders are sounding the alarm regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) surveillance of churches during and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (795+ words) Sami Safi’s arrest is part of a “concerted effort to crush the new generation of Palestinian leaders,” her aunt said. The family of Sama Safi, a Palestinian American student who is being detained in an Israeli prison, has urged the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (457+ words) Under the system, USPS could toss an entire batch of 10,000 ballots if the agency fails to verify one of them. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been secretly and, at times, unlawfully working on an unprecedented new screening system…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (798+ words) “I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said. After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (351+ words) The USS Abraham Lincoln recently made headlines after several sailors reportedly tried to jump overboard. The Trump administration has detained and is trying to deport the father of a sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose crew has suffered from…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (431+ words) Contractors damaged federally protected habitats in Big Bend National Park and areas near sacred springs in Arizona. “The water runs just a couple dozen feet from the border; if they put a second wall there, they will destroy the hydrology,…...