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Jury Acquits Man Who Offered $500 to ‘Anyone Who Kills an ICE Agent’ on Twitter, but Questions About ‘True Threats’ Remain
A federal jury found a man who tweeted an offer of $500 to kill an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was apparently just joking on Friday. The case revisits the issue of what is deemed a credible threat at a time when so much of what we say is online and therefore, searchable and…
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Bill de Blasio Talks ICE, Sex Work Decriminalization and Why Black People Should Support His Campaign
New York City Mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio said Donald Trump won the 2016 Election because people stayed home instead of hitting the polls, not because the majority of the country is racist (03:25). “Trump won not by bringing out a racist majority,” de Blasio said. “I do not believe there is…
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Trump Administration Diverts FEMA Disaster Relief Money to Keep More Migrants in Cages
The Department of Homeland Security informed Congress this week that it will reallocate $271 million from its budget, including disaster aid, to the U.S.-Mexico border to support the Trump administration’s stringent immigration policies. DHS confirmed the transfer at the height of hurricane season in the Atlantic; as I write this, Tropical Storm Dorian continues its…
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ICE Said to Have Shut Down an Immigrant Hotline After Orange Is the New Black Featured It in an Episode
In what seems to be a case of life imitating art, Donald Trump style, immigration advocates charge the Trump administration deactivated a lawyer hotline set up for detainees—after an episode discussing the hotline aired on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black. Freedom for Immigrants, a California advocacy group, says Immigration and Customs Enforcement shut down…
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After Record-Setting ICE Raid in Mississippi, Migrant Children Face the Horror of Living Without Their Parents
After nearly 700 immigrants were detained by ICE agents on Wednesday during a series of strategic raids, an ugly situation in Morton, Miss., became even more gruesome as children, some as young as toddlers, have been forced to rely on members of their community in the absence of their parents. From WSET: The Clear Creek…
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Invoking the Racist Dog Whistles of the Past, ICE Arrests Nearly 700 Undocumented Immigrants in Mississippi
In what Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are touting as “the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation’s history,” nearly 700 undocumented immigrants were detained in raids at food processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday. As CNN reports, the ICE raids hit seven sites in six different Mississippi cities. Many of those detained are…
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Whodunit? As Feds Scan DMV Records Using Facial Recognition Software and More Cities Use the Technology, Racial Bias Could Be a Problem
When you go to your local DMV office and stand in front of the camera to take as decent a photo as possible, you probably aren’t thinking about the possibility that said photo will come up in a facial-recognition search used by government agencies. If this is a concern you never had before, you should…
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ICE Raids to Deport Migrant Families Set to Begin Sunday in 10 US Cities
Despite reported misgivings by the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents are prepared to start rounding up migrant families with existing deportation orders Sunday in 10 major cities around the country. According to reports by the Washington Post and CNN, both citing confidential sources, the raids are to begin before dawn Sunday…
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U.S. Government Admits Another Migrant Child Died Under Its Care—8 Months After the Fact
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Wednesday that a 10-year-old girl from Guatemala died while in U.S. custody last year, bringing the total number of known migrant child deaths to six in the last eight months. Democrats are calling for an investigation into the case, and because the agency had kept…
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Trump Administration Will Start DNA Testing Migrant Families Seeking Asylum at Southern Border
The Department of Homeland Security is launching a DNA testing pilot on the southern border next week to identify and prosecute people posing as families. The program is intended to limit human smuggling, according to reports from CNN and BuzzFeed. As CNN first reported, the pilot program will take place in two border locations and…