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Resuming Immigrant Detention at Irwin County Detention Center Another Cruel Step in President Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Reopening Irwin is a cruel act and a slap in the face to every woman who bravely told their story…

October 15, 2025

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Pre-Dawn ICE Raid in Chicago Is Attack on Human Rights, Spreads Fear and Intimidation

These raids are creating a climate of fear for all of us, especially immigrant and Black, brown, and Indigenous communities.…

October 7, 2025

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Amy Fischer in front of "Alligator Alcatraz" (Amnesty International USA)

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The Cruelty Must End: Together We Must Stop President Trump’s Mass Detention and Deportation Machine

No one should be locked up in immigration detention centers in the first place. Migration is not a crime. Together…

October 1, 2025

Protesters gather at Ervan Chew Park in Houston, Texas, on June 8, 2025, for a demonstration against Trump immigration policies and mass deportations.
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Can You Spot the Trump Administration's Lies on Immigration? Take the Quiz!

It’s imperative that we all know what’s really happening so that we can speak truth to power — and hold…

September 30, 2025

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(Amnesty International)

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The Trump Administration’s Call to ‘Reframe’ the Global Asylum System Would Harm People Seeking Safety

Q&A on how the Trump administration’s call to reframe the global asylum system would harm people seeking safety.

September 26, 2025

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Journalist Mario Guevara Should be Freed, not Deported

Mario Guevara’s arbitrary detainment, and now imminent threat of deportation, sends a chilling message: that journalists can be silenced, detained,…

September 24, 2025

Protesters gather at Ervan Chew Park in Houston, Texas, on June 8, 2025, for a demonstration against Trump immigration policies and mass deportations.
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Third-Country Deportations: Another Cruel Piece of President Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Third-country deportations reflect a disregard for immigrant lives and a calculated effort to dismantle the right to seek asylum.

September 18, 2025

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Amnesty International Statement on Ruling to Allow Alligator Alcatraz to Stay Open

We will not stop fighting until the mass detention and deportation machine is dismantled, and immigrants  are treated with dignity…

September 5, 2025

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Opening ICE Facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary Latest Expansion of President Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Angola prison, a notorious facility built on a former plantation used to enslave people, is steeped in a legacy of…

September 4, 2025

Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed
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Cruelty is the Point of Alligator Alcatraz-and Why It Must Be Closed

Alligator Alcatraz could become a model for more sites like it under Trump’s $150 billion mass deportation expansion recently signed…

July 24, 2025

President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law
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President Trump’s Big, Brutal Budget Bill Passed. Now What?

President Trump’s cruel Big, Beautiful bill passed, and over $150 billion of taxpayer dollars will now supercharge mass deportations and…

July 21, 2025

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Amnesty International Statement on U.S.-Venezuela Prisoner Swap

None of these people should have been detained, yet they became entangled in President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and were used as…

July 19, 2025