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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

Abby Zimet: ‘We Go As We Please’ | What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y’all?

The American Gestapo’s brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on.

November 21, 2025 · 11 Comments

Doug Anderson: The Wind Comes Up

…the soldiers
dismount and go
house to house,
come back out and sit
in the shade.

August 19, 2025 · 25 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

Shailly Gupta Barnes: The War on Immigrants is a War on all Americans

In states across the country, cynical politicians are turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater.

October 25, 2022 · 3 Comments

Regina Schwartz: Immigration | “Loving Justice”

When we fail to respond humanely to refugees, we not only deny their vulnerability, we also deny our own.

November 14, 2019 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: An Affront To Justice

Amidst our grim, slow slide into a police state where almost no one is safe comes a new report showing ICE arrests of undocumented immigrants at courthouses in New York state have … Continue reading

February 1, 2019 · 2 Comments

Mohamedou Ould Slahi: My Guantánamo Diary, Uncensored

“Who I am now, thanks to my lawyers, my family and friends, my publishers, and my readers, is a free man.” If I wanted to, I could put my pen … Continue reading

October 26, 2017 · Leave a comment

Angele Ellis: Federal Building

I enter through security as taxpayer, the needle’s eye of citizenship. Bag on the table, keys in a plastic container that could hold mail or explosives. The only way in … Continue reading

June 26, 2017 · 1 Comment

100 Hate-crime Murders Linked to Single Website

People charged with the murders of almost 100 people can be linked to a single far-right website, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The White … Continue reading

July 21, 2014 · Leave a comment

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