The attorney detained at a Detroit airport is the escalation we warned you about.
In an escalation of the college student arrests, an attorney detained at a Detroit airport for representing someone targeted for speech speaks out.
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Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation
Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.
Republican AGs Are Trying to Overturn Michigan’s Conversion Therapy Ban
Iowa and South Carolina AGs join over 10 other states in an attempt to overturn the conversion therapy ban for minors in Michigan.
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.
It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Manhattan on Saturday seemed to capture the…
Innocent Men Suffering in a Prison in El Salvador
Trump deported 238 Venezuelan men to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. Several men have been identified that are not gang members or criminals.
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whose hands and legs were bound by shackles.
Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador Sparks Legal Questions, Likely to Reach Supreme Court
Editor: The Use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport anyone when we’re not currently at war with another country is illegal. I hope the case does reach the Supreme Court and I hope the Justices rule based on the Constitution and the law. This is no time for partisan politics. At least 9 innocent men…
In Trump’s America, You Can Be Disappeared for Writing an Op-Ed
The Trump administration’s detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk rests on an opinion article she wrote in 2024, her lawyers said in a filing.
How to Protect Yourself While Crossing the US Border
Editor: With the current ‘Fascist regime’ in power, it’s vital that anyone crossing the US border knows their rights and how they can protect themselves from being thrown onto a plane headed to a gulag in another country. Some Americans believe President Trump has the right to remove dangerous…
Republican Bill Allowing Tennessee Schools to Deny an Education to Immigrant Children Advances
‘We should not put our children — the least of us, those that cannot do for themselves — in the middle of an adult battle,’ one Democrat said.
Kansas House Republicans Back Antisemitism Bill, Refuse to Condemn All Racism and Discrimination
House Republicans shot down an amendment proposal to their bill against antisemitism. A Democrat wanted to condemn all forms of racism.
Community health clinic workers brush up on constitutional protections after policy change allows raids of sensitive locations
A policy change by the Trump administration allows federal immigration officials to make arrests at or near sensitive locations.
ICE’s latest ‘collateral arrests’ are part of our nation’s legacy of racist immigration policies
Ramped up raids in migrant communities have swept up disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown people in the country legally.
GEO, an ICE contractor worth billions fights to pay detainees as little as $1 a day to work
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
Two men convicted in smuggling deaths of 53 immigrants in San Antonio
The 2022 tragedy was the nation’s deadliest smuggling attempt across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump Goes Hollywood on Mass Deportation With Propaganda Video
The Trump White House takes a stylized approach on its propaganda as Trump wields a 1798 law.