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Fired Immigration Judge Files Whistleblower Lawsuit

September 15, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
A former United States immigration judge says she objected to ICE agents who “unlawfully detained an unaccompanied minor who had just been in her courtroom,” and then she was fired. She filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit on September 10.  In 2025, according to the complaint [PDF], the immigration court in San Francisco had 22 immigration judges. The Justice Department “fired nearly 20 of the judges,” including the plaintiff, Chloe Dillon. The department even announced that the court would close in January 2027.

We All Came Here From Somewhere

September 11, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
Everywhere we go in the world today, from the Global North to the Global South, we are inundated with rising anti-immigrant rhetoric. It seems to be an inescapable part of public discourse. This discourse is particularly toxic in the Global North, where it has become a central pillar of the Far Right of a Special Type. In December 2025, US President Donald Trump called Somali immigrants in the US ‘garbage’ and said they should be sent ‘back to where they came from’. Trump’s Vice President JD Vance has said that immigration is the ‘greatest threat’ to both the United States and Europe.

Marco Rubio And The Myth Of The ‘Communist Refugee’

July 21, 2026 Nick Estes, Counter Punch. , , ,
Fox News host Martha MacCallum recently interviewed New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, clashing over whether the DSA’s platform is “anti-American” and challenging Gordillo’s immigrant roots. MacCallum reminded Gordillo that his family left Peru, suggesting their reasons might be related to the communist uprising led by the Shining Path and not, as Gordillo claims, related to U.S. imperialism. MacCallum contrasted this by discussing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Cuban immigrant family’s embrace of American capitalism, weaponizing it against Gordillo’s embrace of socialist policies.

Walking The Migrant Trail

June 5, 2026 Ken Jones, Counter Punch. , , ,
There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by migrants coming to the U.S. through its southern border. Thousands of migrants have made this journey over the years. Forced into the Sonoran desert by the inhumane U.S. Prevention Through Deterrence policy and hunted by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), they have endured blazing heat and scarcity of water and shade as they have desperately sought asylum and a better life. Some have made it through, but many have not. Over 8000 migrant deaths have been recorded over the past 30 years. And there are many more whose bodies have not been found.

Exaggerated Claims About Latino Migration To US By White Nationalists

April 29, 2026 John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , ,
In the run-up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” A year later, it was a promise he claimed to have kept. But exactly who are the “illegals”? Loose definitions and manipulated statistics tell a very misleading story about migrants from Latin America. Earlier this year, a chart appeared on social media sites like X claiming that during President Biden's four years in office, 8% of Nicaragua's population entered the US illegally. The chart displayed comparable percentages for five other Latin American countries — Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Venezuela and Guatemala.

Trump Uses Immigration Enforcement To Make America Whiter Again

April 25, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
A recent headline on the BBC website read, “US has let in 4,499 refugees since October - all but three were South African.” The BBC was strangely imprecise in its language and didn’t point out the elephant in the room. The 4,499 South Africans designated as refugees and admitted to the U.S. are all white, unlike the majority of people in that country. Despite a well-coordinated effort claiming that white South Africans are victims of a genocide, they are, in fact, still most of the landowners and own almost all of the country’s wealth.

ICE Killing In Minneapolis Sparks Mass Outrage

January 8, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
On January 7, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman in the head in a residential neighborhood in South Minneapolis, firing into her vehicle at point-blank range. The woman was later identified by authorities as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. A neighbor who saw what happened told local MPR News: “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun … and shot her in the face like three, four times.” Witnesses said she died immediately. Within hours, federal officials presented a starkly different account from what eyewitnesses reported.

ICE Wants To Reopen Notorious California Prison

December 21, 2025 Victoria Law, Truthout. , , , ,
On December 16, 2025, the Dublin City Council in California unanimously passed a resolution formally opposing reopening or reusing the notorious FCI Dublin prison for detention of any kind, including as an immigration jail. The resolution also urged the relevant federal agencies to “engage in open and transparent communication with the City regarding any decisions affecting the site.” The resolution comes after months of organizing by local and regional residents and a coalition of faith-based organizations, advocacy groups, and those who were imprisoned in FCI Dublin.

As Trump Escalates ICE Raids, Local Community Defense Networks Grow

October 18, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
The Trump administration has pledged to continue ramping up the controversial operations to detain and deport immigrants. Yet, as his threats intensify, the movement in defense of immigrant rights is rapidly growing and taking shape from the grassroots. In Chicago, people are standing up to federal agents armed and ready to deploy tear gas and pepper spray. Army veterans in Portland are urging federal troops to disobey Trump’s orders, and in Colorado, residents are rejecting the conversion of several private prisons into ICE detention centers.

How Chicago Residents Are Resisting ICE Invasion Of The City

October 18, 2025 Danny Postel, In These Times. , , , , , ,
If there’s one thing President Donald Trump and the people of Chicago might agree on, it’s that America’s third-largest city is currently a ​“war zone.” But for most Chicagoans, it’s the Trump administration that has made it so, with its military-style ​“Operation Midway Blitz,” led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and ​“Operation At Large,” which Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched in Los Angeles and brought to the Windy City in September. “I have lived here for 28 years and I have never felt so profoundly unsafe until this week,” one resident recently posted on social media.

Chicago Residents ‘Refuse To Budge’ As ICE Terrorizes Communities

October 16, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
From hunting people down through the aisles of retail stores, to intentionally crashing into a vehicle on a residential street and then deploying tear gas against a gathered crowd of residents and protesters, agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been wreaking havoc in Chicago as part of their “Operation Midway Blitz”. According to the Department of Homeland Security, federal agents have made more than 1,500 arrests in the greater Chicago area since September 8 when the operation was announced – although data reveals some of these arrests to be outside of the state of Illinois.

Burkina Faso Is A Place Of Dignity, Not Expulsion

October 15, 2025 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
“Burkina Faso is a place of dignity … not a place of expulsion,” said its Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s deportation deal. Deeming Trump’s proposal for Burkina Faso to accept foreign nationals he is deporting from the US as “indecent”, he said it was “totally contrary to the value of dignity, which is … the very essence of the vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré.” Coming to power in 2022 after the ouster of Roch Kaboré’s unpopular regime, propped up by France, Traoré expelled French troops, consolidating his mass support in the country. His avowed anti-imperialism and pan-Africanism have won him admirers across Africa and Black and Afro-descendant communities in the West.

National Illegal Immigration Day

October 13, 2025 Charmaine White Face, Popular Resistance. , , ,
There was an elder friend of mine who often called to tell me what he had been thinking about. Elders do that so you can expand your mind and increase your own wisdom. Although I am also up there in age, 78 at my last birthday, I still have friends who are older than me and I really appreciate when we get to talk. But I also know many elderly who only think about the color of their hair, or what is the latest wasicu fashion, or if they can get a young woman to marry them. There is a big difference. So this elder, who went home last year, would call and give me ideas for what others should also think about. In our conversation, he said that all the Native nations on Turtle Island (North America) should have a National Immigration Day, or a National Illegal Immigration Day.

Iced Out

October 12, 2025 Anna Lekas Miller, Progressive.org. , , , , ,
An Indigenous nation of fewer than 1,000 people in South Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe doesn’t often get involved in local politics. But then private contractors showed up to an abandoned airport and started erecting a detention center in the middle of the Everglades. The Miccosukee leapt into action, realizing that the behemoth structure would drastically change the fragile wetlands that they call home. It didn’t take long for the so-called Alligator Alcatraz to also develop a reputation for egregious human rights abuses. Billed as an immigration detention center for the “most dangerous criminals,” reports started quickly circulating that detainees were experiencing medical neglect and didn’t have access to basic hygiene.

Following Mass Protests, Trump Deploys National Guard To Chicago

October 10, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
After months of threats from the Trump administration, on October 8, hundreds of National Guard troops arrived in Chicago from Texas and Illinois. The US Northern Command announced on October 8 that around 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and around 300 from the Illinois National Guard had arrived in the greater Chicago area. Troops are set to “protect” ICE and other federal agents, as well as federal property, according to the Northern Command. The deployment of troops comes after waves of mass protest against US President Donald Trump’s ramped up immigration enforcement operation – labeled as “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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