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This Labor Day, Stand With Immigrant Workers
When the workplace rights of immigrant workers are protected, all workers are protected Healthcare. Caregiving. Farmwork. Construction. Hospitality. None of these industries could survive without the skills, labor and dedication of immigrant workers. Their contributions should be honored and remembered this Labor Day – and everyday. HEALTHCARE: Immigrants help keep Americans – and the healthcare industry overall – healthy and alive.
Pierre Damas Bel Died As A Result Of An Anti-Immigrant Purge Built On Cruelty
The tragic death of a 20-year-old college freshman after being shackled by ICE “demands that we confront the cruelty embedded in our immigration system,” said one Haitian leader Pierre Damas Bel had everything going for him. This past May, the 20-year-old Haitian immigrant graduated from the Springfield City School District, where he was in the National Honor Society and a member of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
The Trump Administration Is Knowingly Deporting Children To Danger
None of this is “acceptable or necessary,” as one advocate said Liam Tadeo should have no worries, only excitement about starting kindergarten, having fun at recess with his friends, and coming home to his family after a day of learning and playing. Instead, the five-year-old has become the latest face of the Trump administration’s deliberately cruel war on children.
‘Worst of the Worst’ Part II: Updated Report Reveals Even More Abusive ICE and CBP Agents
“Officers who abuse women at home are not safe to carry guns in public,” as the report says. “Officers who prey on children are not safe to interact with communities” Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s new update to its devastating report on criminal mass deportation agents was barely out for three days before it was already out of date, the organization said.
When It Comes to ICE, No One Is Off-Limits
“From the beginning, mass deportation was never about public safety. It was always about targeting anyone and everyone this administration deems undesirable, for whatever reason” In the span of just one week, three U.S. citizens were targeted and falsely accused by mass deportation agents, including one Virginia woman who caught on video the terrifying moment when an unhinged ICE agent pointed his gun at her face and responded “I don’t care” when she told them she’s an American.
The Trump Administration Is Carrying Out Child Abuse In Our Names
Trump and Stephen Miller have introduced a new low in their ugly mission to deport vulnerable immigrant kids It’s hard to imagine how much more of a dire situation the Trump administration can intentionally create for immigrant children, after allowing the federal contract that funded their legal representation to expire. Somehow, this administration always finds an uglier, more despicable way to impose fear on children.
‘Our Status Is Precarious’: Trump’s Intentional Renewal Delays Endanger the Dreams of DACA Recipients
“Dreamers are losing their jobs, being detained, and being deported right now,” said Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia DACA — the program to bring legal status to young immigrants in America — is a prime example of how government programs can transform our country for the greater good.
ICE Dishonors Veterans and America: Relentless Detention and Deportation of U.S. Military Spouses and Family Members
“[Recruiters] basically told me that if you serve, and if you served honorably, you can help your parents,” said one service member. His mom was detained and deported last August The Trump administration has targeted, detained, or deported dozens of U.S. military family members since January 2025, a shocking new investigation by the AP reveals.
A Year in Review: Abuse of Power Watch
The impact of the government’s mass deportation purge has not been contained to abuses of the immigrant communities alone. They’re being felt by American citizens and American communities One year ago this week, we launched Abuse of Power Watch, a real-time hub on Bluesky dedicated to documenting and exposing government overreach and abuses of power. Abuses that target our democratic values, our way of life and the freedoms of everyone living here no matter their legal immigration status.
Gut Punch to Immigrant Kids: Trump Administration Strips Legal Assistance from Vulnerable Children
Children “who have fled violence, trafficking, and abuse” woke up Saturday without the legal support they were promised, said one legal service provider Thousands of immigrant children have been stripped of legal assistance and could be retraumatized by being forced to go through the complicated deportation court system alone, after the Trump administration bucked years of precedent – and decency – to deliberately allow a federal contract ensuring lifesaving representation for these...
Catholic Nun Abducted By ICE Speaks Out: I Cannot Stay Quiet About What Is Also ‘Happening to Others’
Sister Letty did “everything the law has asked of her,” but she was still targeted. She worries about others facing this same crisis.
Alarming Report: Dozens of Mass Deportation Agents Charged With or Convicted of Physical and Sexual Assault of Women and Children
After receiving “disturbing” allegations against Cincinnati ICE agents, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance began its investigation.
Mass Deportation Of Healthcare Workers Will Devastate Families, Home Health And Eldercare
A special thanks to Donald Trump, Congressional allies for abandoning your loved ones needing special care. More than 350,000 immigrants’ legal status is set to expire today The Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling allowing the Trump administration to terminate TPS for Haiti and Syria is set to upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of our immigrant neighbors – and the many sick and elderly Americans who depend on them to survive.
ICE Equals More Deaths
Four immigration enforcement-related deaths within the span of one week – with no end in sight Armed with a combined $240 billion in no-strings-attached funding and Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s barbaric and turbocharged mass deportation purge, ICE has pushed its agents to chase arrest quotas at any cost. This state-sanctioned hunting of our immigrant neighbors, empowered by Kavanaugh stops, has predictably resulted in an unprecedented body count.
Is DHS Spending $1.5 Billion To Avoid Oversight In California? It Sure Seems Like It
Now that DHS owns two detention camps formerly belonging to private prison profiteer CoreCivic, “finding out what’s going on inside of them is likely to become harder” The federal government is paying a private prison profiteer more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds as part of a likely scheme to evade accountability for its in-detention abuses.
Hundreds Of Thousands of Immigrant Children Are Facing Immigration Court By Themselves
“I was nervous because it was my first time going to a court,” said one boy. The federal government is seeking to deport him to a country he doesn’t even know Kids deserve to be protected at all times, no matter their legal immigration status. Two recent analyses of federal data reveal that hundreds of thousands of children – including many kids who arrived in the U.S. without their parents or legal guardians – are currently facing immigration court alone.
As Communities Mourn Houston Dad, ICE Kills Again In Maine
No one is safe: Trump’s ICE kills another father on his way to work. How many more? The mourning and outpouring of support for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo continued through the weekend with neighbors and communities coming together to rally in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and across Texas. Then ICE took another life on Monday, this time in Biddeford, Maine.
ICE Has Again Taken The Life Of One Of Us
When will enough be enough? Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was heading to work early this week when he was shot and killed on a Houston street by ICE. Salgado Araujo, a construction business owner and beloved father of three U.S. citizens that he put through college, had called the area his home for 35 years and was in the process of working to attain legal status. He was 52.
Pope Leo Marks America 250 By Reminding Us We Are A Nation Of Immigrants
“In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong have helped to shape the nation’s character,” the pontiff said in his July 4 letter calling for the “welcoming” of immigrants From the very founding of our country, our leaders have proclaimed the United States a nation of immigrants.
More Than 350,000 Documented Immigrants Set To Be Stripped of Legal Status and Deported, Causing Ripple Effect In Communities
“I would be separated from my young son if I had to leave this country,” said one Haitian TPS holder. “Leaving with him is not even an option” The Trump administration and its Congressional allies have made it clear: hundreds of thousands of documented immigrants are set to be stripped of their legal status and deported. Right now, they are living in total uncertainty about their jobs, homes, and whether their families will be ripped apart or forced out of the country entirely.
Immigrants Remind Us Of How Great Our Country Can Be
Immigrant joy of citizenship is bringing out the best of our country. “I’m filled with pride,” said one newly-naturalized U.S. citizen For high school teacher Coco Wachli Banks, this July 4 holiday will be one to remember for a lifetime – and not just because of the semiquincentennial celebrations.
Immigrants Help Make America Winners and Our Sports Teams Great
Through the years, immigrants have been essential players helping American sports teams thrive and win. “In the 1950 World Cup, the U.S. team won an improbable victory over England on a goal by Haitian-born forward Joe Gaetjens” Our nation’s strength, in particular when it concerns athletics, comes from recruiting the best of the best. And without our unique distinction as a nation of immigrants, the fact is we just wouldn’t be as competitive in sports.
The Trump Administration Is Waging War On Children
500 infants and toddlers have been detained while hundreds of others face losing lifesaving healthcare due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation obsessions Children continue to be abused in our name and with our tax dollars.
‘I Bow Before Your Dignity,’ Pope Leo XIV Tells Migrant Communities
The pontiff commemorated African migrants who’ve tragically drowned while seeking new lives in Europe and urged elected leaders everywhere to act and pass “legal and safe pathways” Pope Leo XIV’s week-long visit to Spain included an urgent appeal for the recognition of the rights, dignity, and humanity of migrants, calling on the world to recognize vulnerable people forced to flee their homelands as more than just “a mere category or a statistic.” “Dear migrants, before saying anything else...
It’s Long Past Time To Protect Dreamers
Advocates say we are witnessing “an ongoing mission to delegalize millions of people by eroding the very protections they rely on, DACA included” The Trump administration’s attacks on DACA recipients – from outrageously long renewal delays to wrongful detention and even deportation to countries they haven’t considered their home for decades – continue to mount.
Legal Seek Demand Justice For U.S. Citizens and Immigrants Terrorized by Mass Deportation Agents
“Together, they bring these actions to demand that no government agency acts with such blatant disregard for civil and human rights again” In the year since the Trump administration’s unjustified invasion of Los Angeles, American citizens and immigrants subjected to violent and unconstitutional assaults and arrests by mass deportation agents have been fighting for justice.
Immigrant Heritage Month: America Runs On Immigrants’ Power
“Without our immigrant neighbors, New York City and the U.S. at large would not exist as they do now” New York City is marking June’s Immigrant Heritage Month with an “Immigrants Power New York” theme, reminding us how immigrant New Yorkers seeking new lives and opportunities for themselves in the U.S. also contribute to the region’s workforce, economy, and status as one of the most famed cities in the world. And what better city to tell that story?
Hunger Strikes Over Abuse, Inhumane ICE Conditions Spread To At Least Four States
One Baptist minister said that in his nearly ten years of visiting detained immigrants, the past year “has been the worst” The ongoing abuses at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall private prison in New Jersey are not an aberration.
Trump’s L.A. Invasion Previewed Chaos, Violence, and ‘Kavanaugh Stops’ All Across The Country
Trump’s “violent campaign of raids and detentions during the summer of 2025 in Los Angeles set the stage for similar and subsequent abuses in cities around the country,” as Human Rights Watch said June 6 marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s unjustified invasion of Los Angeles, which terrorized local residents in their own homes and essential workers at Home Depot while deliberately seeking to stoke unrest at community-led protests in order to unlawfully deploy...
The New Family Separation Crisis Is Here
A horrific number of U.S. citizen children have been separated from a parent under the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, a new study reveals A May 18 report from the Brookings Institution estimates that nearly 147,000 American citizen kids have seen a parent detained under the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant obsessions, which have already endangered children’s safety by diverting federal resources away from investigating predators and traffickers in order to target...
Detained Immigrants Are Hunger Striking To Protest ‘Brutal’ Private Prison Conditions
“The inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall shock the conscience,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Hundreds of detained immigrants are hunger striking in protest of inhumane conditions at privately-operated facilities in New Jersey and California ICE has responded with violence, including pepper-spraying a U.S. senator and abducting a U.S. citizen – and U.S. military veteran – who volunteered as a street medic Detained individuals say ongoing community-led...
Trump Claims Mass Deportation Helps Americans. The Facts Reveal A Far Different Truth
“We see no evidence that employers increase wages to attract U.S.- born workers to fill these jobs in the face of immigration enforcement,” one study said Donald Trump has his priorities — and it’s not any of the millions of Americans struggling to pay for daily living expenses, like rent and groceries. Nope. Instead, his priorities are clear: a vanity project ballroom, a proposed $1.7 billion slush fund for Jan.
Immigrant Service Members Made the Ultimate Sacrifice For the Land They Loved – America
One 2019 study from the Migration Policy Institute found that between 2001 and 2013, almost 300 foreign-born soldiers died in service of their adoptive country José Gutierrez is not a name remembered by most Americans, but it should be. The Marine Corps. Lance corporal – believed to have been the second U.S. service member to have been killed in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom – grew up an orphan on the streets of Guatemala and arrived in the U.S. without papers.
DACA Recipient Testifies That Her Wrongful Deportation Was ‘Abuse Of Power’ That ‘Traumatized’ Family
DACA recipients and loved ones told lawmakers during a Senate forum that the administration’s mass deportation agenda has left their families in “constant fear” Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez – the DACA recipient who was wrongfully separated from her U.S. citizen daughter this past February despite holding valid deportation protections – testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee “spotlight forum” that her ordeal was no bureaucratic mistake.
Does The Trump Administration Care About What Americans Want? Nope.
Most Americans strongly oppose the mass deportation uglinesses terrorizing their communities and neighbors. Lawmakers should remember that amid the reconciliation fight Congressional Republicans and the White House continue to careen forward with plans to seize more than $70 billion of your hard-earned money to ensure that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation obsessions rage on.
$1 Billion Vanity Ballroom For Me, Costly Mass Deportations For You
None of the administration’s priorities do anything to help struggling Americans with their bills This week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) signaled that the $1 billion that his Republican colleagues are demanding for Donald Trump’s ballroom could be stripped from the budget reconciliation bill before it heads to the Senate floor, The Hill reports. Good.
DACA Recipient and Nurse’s Aide Helped Save Lives During COVID. Now She Faces Deportation
“She’s like the glue that keeps us all together,” said her brother. “Every happy event we have, we can’t imagine ourselves without her” A DACA recipient and nursing aide who volunteered to help save lives in New York during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has been detained for months and is at threat of deportation despite holding current protections valid through 2027, Spectrum News 1 reports.
Special Saturday Edition: Community Members Raise Funds — And Hope — For Immigrant Moms Ahead Of Mother’s Day
“We want them to know there are some people who love them, some people who support them – we want them to have hope” Local faith leaders and community members have spent every day this week leading up to Mother’s Day working to deliver yellow flowers – “symbols of hope, kindness and compassion” – to moms who are currently in federal immigration detention and separated from their children, CBS News 8 reports.
Pope Leo Selects Formerly Undocumented Immigrant To Lead West Virginia Faithful
Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, currently auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Washington D.C., has urged Americans to stand up for their immigrant neighbors Pope Leo XIV’s pick to lead West Virginia Catholics is a prelate who was at one time an undocumented immigrant.
Let Them Eat Ballroom
Working Americans’ exploding daily expenses don’t matter one iota to this president It’s erroneously said that Marie Antoinette famously exclaimed “let them eat cake” when referring to the plight of the starving people of France.
Trump Is Breaking DACA’s Promise
Renewal delays, detention, and deportation: The administration is making clear that young immigrants can no longer rely on DACA for protection The Trump administration has been hellbent on targeting immigrants who hold legal status and current protections – and not even the beneficiaries of one of the most popular immigration programs in recent U.S. history are being spared from this mass deportation agenda.
Notable Americans To Have Benefited From Birthright Citizenship Include Trump Officials
Secretary of State Marco Rubio once defended the constitutional protections he’s now complicit in undermining Last year, the Trump administration issued an executive order that purported to end birthright citizenship for the American-born children of certain non-citizen immigrants.
Recognizing and Honoring Immigrant Contributions On May Day
“Immigrant workers are not just helping; they are essential to keeping this industry running” May Day celebrates the achievements of workers and the labor movement – and that includes the millions of immigrants who help keep our country running year round. We recognize and honor the HEALTH CARE WORKERS who keep our communities healthy. In hospital settings, 17% of clinical workers are immigrants, specializing in diagnosing and treating patients.
As Domestic Programs Are Slashed, Food And Healthcare Prices Rise, DHS Wants Billions More With No Strings Attached
Mass deportation remains unchecked, unaccountable and unabated. No more blank checks At a time when food banks are seeing long lines and Americans are worried sick about how to afford a doctor’s visit, the Trump administration wants to waste billions more to ensure its mass deportation agenda rages on.
Haitian Immigrant Communities Win Historic Discharge Petition Vote
“To our Haitian neighbors in the Massachusetts 7th and across this country—this is for you” In a historic vote late last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants for a further three years, delivering “one of the more stunning immigration wins this Congress has seen,” as Migrant Insider noted.
DHS Already Got $190 Billion Last Year. Now It Wants Even More
After 15 months of lawlessness and cruelty, ICE and CBP want even more money Millions of working Americans across the country finished filing their income taxes on Tax Day this week. Their hard-earned dollars help fund programs essential to our daily lives, including public schools, fire departments, Social Security, Medicare, and SNAP.
In Rare Moment, Sotomayor Rebukes Colleague Over ‘Kavanaugh Stops’
Kavanaugh claimed wrongful targeting of Americans would be a mild inconvenience.
Your Tax Day Reminder That Immigrants Pay Billions In Taxes Every Year
Immigrants regardless of legal status contribute their share – and then some It bears repeating every Tax Day: our immigrant neighbors regardless of legal status are not only essential threads in the fabric of America, they make vast financial contributions that help sustain our public schools, libraries, fire departments, and essential federal programs like Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance to the benefit of us all.
Some States Protect Freedom, Freeze ICE Out
State and local government action is helping eliminate “one of the Trump regime’s key tactics for mass deportation and family separation,” one advocate said Local and state lawmakers all across the country have been taking substantive action to push back against the Trump administration’s brutal mass deportation efforts, in particular proposing and passing legislation to rein in deeply-flawed 287(g) agreements, a controversial federal policy that allows local law enforcement officers to be...
Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Ms. Rachel Among Prominent Names Urging Closure of ICE Migrant Family Jail
“Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” their open letter states An impressive list of entertainers, physicians, educators, and advocacy organizations are among the notable figures to have joined forces to issue an open letter demanding the “immediate” closure of Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the privately-operated migrant family jail that has been accused of medical mistreatment and other serious abuses against children and parents in its...
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