US spends vast amounts enforcing immigration
Monitoring foreigners entering the U.S. and detaining and deporting illegal immigrants is “the federal government’s highest criminal law enforcement priority” according to a new report from the...
View ArticleObama deportation toll on track to pass 2 million
At current rates, deportations enforced under the Obama presidency are set to hit 2 million by 2014, according to a new report from the University of California-Merced. Findings highlight that if...
View ArticleImmigrant detainees released to save money
The Department of Homeland Security has released hundreds of illegal immigrants from detention centers around the country in what the New York Times reported as "a highly unusual effort to save money...
View ArticleHundreds of immigrants held in solitary confinement
Every day in the U.S. hundreds of individuals, held in detention centers for immigration infractions, are placed in solitary confinement, the New York Times reports. The Times reported that on any...
View ArticleDHS to review solitary confinement of immigrants
As Salon noted Monday, reports emerged this week that hundreds of unauthorized immigrants detained in mass civil detention centers are held in solitary confinement. The New York Times reported that on...
View ArticleThe Department of iPhone Security
A South Florida TV news station is reporting that over the last few months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been raiding local smartphone repair shops and seizing counterfeit...
View ArticleWeed more likely than rape to get immigrant detained, report charges
A new report suggests that a suspected undocumented immigrant convicted of possessing pot may be more likely to face immigration detention than one who’s been convicted of rape.Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleHow an infuriating shutdown double standard targets immigrants
While the government shutdown threatens to cut off Head Start and nutritional support for kids, it won’t stop the U.S. government from deporting people. But advocates warn it will mean longer stays in...
View ArticleMust-see morning clip: Would-be local news photobomber wipes out on ice
People really love to photobomb the local news.Whether there's a fire at the supermarket or a parade going on, if there is a local reporter covering the story, odds are good that someone is going to...
View ArticleChris Christie’s Texas horror: Meet the scandalous prison company he’s long...
A controversial company promoted by Chris Christie runs an immigrant detention center in Texas slammed by advocates as one of the nation’s worst. The facility is used by the federal Immigration and...
View ArticleHundreds of immigrants held in solitary confinement
Every day in the U.S. hundreds of individuals, held in detention centers for immigration infractions, are placed in solitary confinement, the New York Times reports. The Times reported that on any...
View ArticleDHS to review solitary confinement of immigrants
As Salon noted Monday, reports emerged this week that hundreds of unauthorized immigrants detained in mass civil detention centers are held in solitary confinement. The New York Times reported that on...
View ArticleThe Department of iPhone Security
A South Florida TV news station is reporting that over the last few months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been raiding local smartphone repair shops and seizing counterfeit...
View ArticleWeed more likely than rape to get immigrant detained, report charges
A new report suggests that a suspected undocumented immigrant convicted of possessing pot may be more likely to face immigration detention than one who’s been convicted of rape.Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleHow an infuriating shutdown double standard targets immigrants
While the government shutdown threatens to cut off Head Start and nutritional support for kids, it won’t stop the U.S. government from deporting people. But advocates warn it will mean longer stays in...
View ArticleMust-see morning clip: Would-be local news photobomber wipes out on ice
People really love to photobomb the local news.Whether there's a fire at the supermarket or a parade going on, if there is a local reporter covering the story, odds are good that someone is going to...
View ArticleChris Christie’s Texas horror: Meet the scandalous prison company he’s long...
A controversial company promoted by Chris Christie runs an immigrant detention center in Texas slammed by advocates as one of the nation’s worst. The facility is used by the federal Immigration and...
View ArticlePresident Obama wants immigration enforcement to be “humane,” but will not...
President Obama has deported more people than any previous administration, setting a record in deportations in 2009 and then topping that record in 2012. As the number of people deported under Obama...
View ArticleNASA built a crazy rover prototype that can drive on the underside of ice
For the first time ever, NASA remotely piloted a rover under a frozen lake. The rover, which in tests clung to the underside of the thick ice of Alaska's Sukok Lake, could potentially probe for life on...
View ArticleDanish artist melts 100 tons of ice as a stark reminder of climate change
In an effort to publicize the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th Assessment Report on the Climate, artist Olafur Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing made the effects of...
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