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Juan Correa Villalonga wears an orange jumpsuit the says "stop deportations" on the back in protest against the ICE agents deporting Venezuelans.

Dec 22, 2020

A Deportation Moratorium, What Comes Next for Biden?

A Deportation Moratorium, What Comes Next for Biden?
A Customs and Border Protection officer questions immigrants in Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas border on Aug. 20, 2019.

Dec 9, 2020

Biden Must Remove Border Patrol from Border Communities to Restore Civil Rights and Liberties

Biden Must Remove Border Patrol from Border Communities to Restore Civil Rights and Liberties
Immigrant detainees walk down a hall escorted by heavily armed CBP officers.

Dec 2, 2020

Separated Families, Death, and Despair — All at the Hands of CBP. We Need Action, Now.

Separated Families, Death, and Despair — All at the Hands of CBP. We Need Action, Now.
A pair of hands holding a cell phone at night with street lights in the background.

Dec 2, 2020

The U.S. Government Is Secretly Using Cell Phone Location Data to Track Us. We’re Suing.

The U.S. Government Is Secretly Using Cell Phone Location Data to Track Us. We’re Suing.
Enrique Balcazar, of Migrant Justice, an advocacy group representing immigrant farmworkers in Vermont, speaks to a crowd outside the federal court in Burlington, Vt.

Dec 1, 2020

The Biden Administration Can Make Us All Safer: End ICE Collaboration Programs

The Biden Administration Can Make Us All Safer: End ICE Collaboration Programs
Detainees walk past a map of the world in a hallway of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.

Nov 30, 2020

The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention

The Questions You Probably THINK You Know the Answer to — But Likely Don’t — About ICE Detention
Urooj Alavi with her two children.

Oct 16, 2020

ICE is Trying to Deport My Husband While I Treat COVID Patients

ICE is Trying to Deport My Husband While I Treat COVID Patients
Barbed wire fence at a refugee camp for migrants and asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, October 2019. Guillermo Arias for the ACLU.

Oct 12, 2020

An Indigenous Woman Made it to Safety in the U.S. DHS Won't Let it Go.

An Indigenous Woman Made it to Safety in the U.S. DHS Won't Let it Go.
A CBP truck is seen through a border wall

Sep 30, 2020

CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can’t Let Them.

CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can’t Let Them.
A detainee sits on a bunk in a women's area at an immigration detention center.

Sep 23, 2020

Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System

Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System