A Tweet Raises Questions About Immigrant Safety During Coronavirus Pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads, ICE detained a Central American immigrant in a hospital, causing confusion and raising concerns.
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Lexi McMenamin
Immigrant DNA Collection And The Fear Of ‘Population Surveillance’
An enormous database of DNA samples could pave the way for increasingly exclusionary anti-immigrant policies
Their Juvenile Records Were Sealed. Decades Later, They’ve Reappeared.
The Washington State Patrol has added thousands of old sealed juvenile records to a database it shares with law enforcement agencies across the country—erasing for many their chance of a clean slate.
Targeting A Group That ‘Lends Legitimacy’ To Human Caging
The American Correctional Association has granted accreditation to includes detention centers, prisons, and jails where people are held in horrific conditions.
What ICE Reveals About Itself When It Detains U.S. Citizens
Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. Americans might be forgiven for overlooking immigration news of late. Some have been busy trying to ease their disappointment over the Mueller hearings, and many, apparently, have […]
Border Patrol in New Mexico Stood By As Right-Wing Militia Terrorized Migrants
Videos and audio posted by the group and its supporters on social media raise questions about the agency’s role.