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Immigrant Defense Project: ICE Ruses

When Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents go to homes and the community to arrest non-citizens, it’s common for them to lie about who they are and what they want from the individuals they encounter. 

December 11, 2025 · 4 Comments

Joan E. Bauer:  Brown Skin | Probable Cause

My niece says they’ve raided the carwash.
Her former nanny, a longtime citizen,
afraid to leave home.

October 1, 2025 · 14 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Cruelty is the point.

August 28, 2025 · 6 Comments

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: ICE is Abducting NYC Public School Students as Young as 7

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has abducted several New York City public school students since May, sparking outrage among community members and elected officials. 

August 19, 2025 · 9 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: A Cruel Tradeoff | Building the “Amazon of Deportation” While Tearing Down Health and Human Services

The Trump administration wants to spend $45 billion to build an inhumane deportation industry while planning to cut at least $40 billion in life-saving programs from the Department of Health and Human Services

May 14, 2025 · 1 Comment

Marianne Dhenin: Educators Resist Trump’s Fascist Agenda

More than 49 million young people attend public schools in the United States, and they have all been thrust into the center of President Donald Trump’s regressive agenda as he moves to use education funding as political leverage.

May 13, 2025 · 8 Comments

Zeina Azzam: My love, how can I contact you? حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

They handcuffed him, didn’t listen when he’d speak,
callously severing him from his home
as his wife cried, حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

April 18, 2025 · 3 Comments

Eloise Goldsmith: ‘Some really sick sh*t’ | Kristi Noem tours a megaprison in El Salvador

“If hell exists, Kristi Noem is a shoo-in,” wrote one pastor.

March 28, 2025 · 9 Comments

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