There are reports that ICE wants to open a detention center in Shakopee, but it may not be happening after all.

To carry out the new Administration’s immigration agenda, the “border czar” is counting on the enthusiasm of local law enforcement.

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also offer flexible detention capacity to ICE and other federal agencies. As one recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative puts it, local jails both “obscure and facilitate” mass deportation.

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

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More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...

DHS announced a new program that pays law enforcement agencies that help carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.

Internal documents reveal ICE’s plans to double immigrant detention to more than 100,000 beds, including new detention centers for families.

This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

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