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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the most notable gun reform bill to broaden federal background checks in years.

After the deaths of 7-year old Jakelin Caal and 8-year old Felipe Gomez Alonzo in federal custody, national concerns over the health and rights of migrant children have been reignited. While Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sent U.S. medical corps to provide additional health screenings for migrant children, the federal government still refuses to hold […]

According to Newsweek, over 200 asylum seekers were dropped off at a bus station in El Paso, Texas on Sunday night. Many of them were without money, food, and most did not speak English, making them incapable of communicating with those who worked at the bus station. Newsweek reported that dropping immigrants off at bus […]

According to the Miami New Times, a facility ran by one of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) top contractors, the GEO Group, has been engaging in practices that make it difficult or impossible for those who are being detained to obtain lawyers. This practice has lead Ben Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers […]

By “DJ Ferguson” All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder written by Frank Miller is an unholy mixture of camp and 90s grim-and-gritty/edgy for its own sake, but this interaction between Batman and Green Lantern will stick with me for the rest of my life. This story takes place not long after Batman: Year […]

According to CNN, the family of a Honduran woman who fled her home country to seek asylum in the United States says she was physically abused while in the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) before she died. Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez entered ICE custody on May 13th after crossing the San […]

This past Wednesday, a U.S. federal judge suspended the Trump Administration’s order to rescind the temporary protected status (TPS) of thousands of immigrants in San Francisco. The court ruling would protect most TPS recipients from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti, and Nicaragua from deportation. Immigrants from these countries make up over 300,000 of all TPS recipients. 

The Trump administration’s tightening grip on immigration pipelines has increased the desperation of undocumented immigrants, and as desperation often does, this has led to increased vulnerability to exploitation. According to BuzzFeed News, immigrants are becoming particularly susceptible to a common type of fraud referred to as “the 10-year law.” As part of this scheme, fraudsters tell immigrants […]

The Trump administration announced over the weekend that immigrants who legally use public aid such as food assistance programs and section 8 housing would have this used against them in green card applications in its newest attempt at keeping Black and brown people out of the country. This new policy could potentially force millions of […]

According to reports from the Atlantic, a court ruling is expected in a matter of days from a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas which could throw the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into disarray, leaving it in effect in some areas of the country and erasing it from the books in others. DACA was […]

According to the Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian immigration officials are using DNA testing sites to trace migrants’ nationalities.

Last Wednesday, seventeen protestors were arrested in Miramar, Florida after they blocked the intersection at Southwest 29th Street and 145th Avenue for about eight hours. Wednesday’s demonstrations came two days after seven protestors were arrested after blocking the entrance to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Miramar.