Detainees in Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia in a still from The Facility documentary.

U.S. Immigration Detention System: “A Living Hell”

A historical and contemporary look at migrant incarceration and the detainees pushing for change inside and beyond the system ...
The Deportation Machine (Review)

The Deportation Machine (Review)

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Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
ICE Special Agents (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) arresting suspects during a raid. (Photo courtesy of ICE/Wikimedia)

Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment

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By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices ...
Photo by Fernando López

The Stain that Mardi Gras Covers Up: Worker Vulnerability in New Orleans

The October collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel building project in New Orleans demonstrates the city's willingness to ignore widespread ...
U.S.-Mexico border (Edmond Meinfelder/Flickr)

AMLO’s Crumbling Promise to Migrants

Faced with pressure from the U.S. to reduce immigration, the López Obrador administration has started to do the dirty work ...
U.S. soldiers deployed along the border (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexandra Minor)

Is Guatemala a “Safe Third Country” for Disposable People?

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Contrary to its name, the Safe Third Country Agreement continues a legacy of exploitation for Indigenous and working class peoples ...
The JBS USA meatpacking plant (Photo by Filiberto Gomez)

On the Front Lines of Trump’s Immigration War in the U.S. Heartland

Worthington, Minnesota, home to a major meatpacking plant with a majority immigrant workforce, is a microcosm of an expanding border ...
U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct intake of unauthorized border crossers at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

They Are Concentration Camps—and They Are Also Prisons

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The migrant camps in which children are being incarcerated are concentration camps—and they are also prisons. We must hold these ...