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Sandra Sanchez, a Honduran woman and asylum seeker, preparing lunch for her daughter.

Social Justice

The Real Intention Behind the Recent ICE Raids Is Intimidation

While only 35 arrests were reported during the most recent, multi-city raids, the campaigns have caused widespread fear and tangible impacts on the daily routines of immigrant families.

Sarah Holder

Immigration advocates with the Florida Immigrant Coalition go house to house handing out fliers on July 13th, 2019, in Little Havana in Miami, Florida.

Social Justice

Why Were Trump’s ICE Raids So Ineffective?

After Trump announced his intention to deport "millions," undocumented immigrants and activists began preparing their communities with "Know Your Rights" campaigns.

Khushbu Shah

Pope Francis meets President Donald Trump at the Vatican on May 24th, 2017.

Social Justice

ICE Raids Divide American Christians

As a debate raged about how Mike Pence reconciles Trump's immigration policy with his Christianity, some churches opened their doors for immigrants looking to avoid detention.

Massoud Hayoun

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested hundreds in Florida and Puerto Rico in March of 2018.

News in Brief

ICE Completed Its Biggest Raid in Over a Decade. Was It Necessary?

Details were still emerging on Thursday, but one aspect of the arrest stood out to advocates: the fact that, by all indications, the raid did not need to happen.

Jack Herrera

News in Brief

ICE Agents Arrest More Than 100 Employees at an Ohio Landscaping Company

The raid was one of the largest stings in recent years.

Kate Wheeling

Social Justice

Why Critics Say It’s Time to Abolish ICE

Critics argue that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is rotten to its very core.

David M. Perry

Students in a classroom at Tolleson Elementary School.

Education

How Immigration Crackdowns Are Hurting America’s Poorest Schools

Teachers around the country report emotional and behavioral problems among their students as a result of ICE raids. Even kids from families under no danger of deportation are affected.

Francie Diep

An immigration detainee stands near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement grievance box in the high security unit at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, on March 14th, 2017.

Social Justice

ICE Agents Arrested Over 200 People in Los Angeles Over a Five-Day Span

This week's raids were the latest in a standoff between the state of California and the Trump administration over the latter's efforts to crack down on undocumented immigrants.

Candace Butera

Pedestrians walk past a 7-Eleven store on January 10th, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

ICE’s 7-Eleven Raids Won’t Get Rid of Undocumented Workers. They’ll Only Make Them Less Visible.

Recent ICE raids could push undocumented immigrant laborers to find less formal means of employment.

Massoud Hayoun

Protesters march during a May Day demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco, California, on May 1st, 2017.

Education

How Sanctuary Cities Are Protecting Their Schoolchildren

New protocols in schools across the country are reassuring their students in the face of a newly weaponized immigration policy.

T.M. Brown