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Advocates say Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is an odd fit for the Bay Area, but mounting a challenge has proved daunting.

Migrants near Brownsville, Texas say that if they don’t bribe Mexican officials they’re stuck at the bottom of a list of people seeking refuge in the U.S. via international bridges.

As they wait for permission to cross into the U.S., migrants, including children and infants, sleep on concrete and under plastic tarps, exposing them to cold, wind, rain, and illness.

With wide jurisdiction and limited oversight, sheriffs play a pivotal role in policing and incarceration.

Trump didn’t start it, but we can end it.

Attorneys for a Honduran woman are suing over the widespread jailhouse practice of honoring ICE requests to hold incarcerated immigrants for pickup.

In response, a new ‘Freedom Cities’ movement is rising to defend immigrants’ rights.

Local allies of the Trump administration fought challengers over immigration policy.

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins seeks a fourth term as critics blast him for a record that includes poor jail conditions, in-custody suicides, and the deaths of two young people at the hands of his deputies.

Opposition to Operation Stonegarden, however, is spreading; one Arizona county just rejected over $1 million of its funds.

After being released from prison, her only chance is a pardon from the governor.

Their attorneys say the new video-teleconferencing policy is exacerbating backlogs and prolonging detention.

A community group met with the Bastrop County sheriff in an effort to build trust between the sheriff’s office and the immigrant community. Then, the sheriff ran a sting that led to more than one dozen arrestees being handed over to ICE.

New bail funds aren’t just getting immigrants out of detention—they’re helping them stay in the country permanently.

Defense attorneys say they’ll have only minutes to meet with their clients before the immigrants are convicted en masse.

In cities across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations agents can mine local police reports using COPLINK, a data program little known outside law enforcement circles. While public records have revealed ICE’s access to this program in the past, new documents, obtained by the ACLU of Massachusetts and shared with The Appeal, offer the first […]