News & Commentary about ICE and Border Patrol Abuses

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Enrique Balcazar, of Migrant Justice, an advocacy group representing immigrant farmworkers in Vermont, speaks to a crowd outside the federal court in Burlington, Vt.

Dec 1, 2020

The Biden Administration Can Make Us All Safer: End ICE Collaboration Programs

Detainees walk past a map of the world in a hallway of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.

Nov 30, 2020

The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention

Oct 16, 2020

ICE is Trying to Deport My Husband While I Treat COVID Patients

Barbed wire fence at a refugee camp for migrants and asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, October 2019. Guillermo Arias for the ACLU.

Oct 12, 2020

An Indigenous Woman Made it to Safety in the U.S. DHS Won't Let it Go.

A CBP truck is seen through a border wall

Sep 30, 2020

CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can’t Let Them.

A detainee sits on a bunk in a women's area at an immigration detention center.

Sep 23, 2020

Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System

A close up of a police officer wears a "Police" label beside a U.S. ICE (standing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement) badge on his vest.

Sep 3, 2020

For Black Immigrants, Police and ICE Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Aug 17, 2020

Chad Wolf’s Desperate Attempt to Rewrite History

A detainee lays on a bunk in a pod at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. As of November 2019, 1,625 male detainees were said to be held at the center by ICE.

Jun 29, 2020

DHS Watchdog Confirms: ICE is Failing to Protect Detained People From COVID

May 27, 2020

ICE Records Confirm that Immigration Enforcement Agencies are Using Invasive Cell Phone Surveillance Devices