Editorial credit: Grossinger / Shutterstock.com By Sunita Sohrabji | Ethnic Media Services More than 160 detained migrants have embarked on a hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma,...
ICE Will Be Required to Wear Body Cameras in a Win for Transparency—But the Implementation Will Be Key
By Kel Smith-Holbourn | January 19, 2024 | Immigration Impact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a policy on January 12 calling for ICE personnel to wear body cameras in most s...
Biden Keeps Ties with Billion-Dollar Business of Immigration Detention, Despite Reports of Serious Abuse
By Emma Winger | Aug 17, 2023 On Thanksgiving Day 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested Kamyar Samimi—a lawful permanent resident with a decade-old conviction for ...
New Complaint Shows ICE’s Use of Solitary Confinement Is Excessive
El Centro, California, USA – May 27, 2022: Afternoon light shines on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center. (Shutterstock) By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact ...
On International Workers’ Day, Unions and Worker Justice Groups Call for Passage of New York For All Act
Hundreds of workers march to Foley Square in New York City to demand stronger worker protections and a full pathway to citizenship for immigrants on May 1, 2022. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK—Unions and w...
States Lead the Way in Banning Immigration Detention Centers
San Diego, CA / USA – November 3, 2019: Sign for privately owned Core Civic Detention Center in Otay Mesa, where San Diego County’s illegal immigrants are held as they go through the legal...
In New York, Department of Corrections Questioned About Collaboration with ICE at New York City Council Hearing
During a city council hearing on Wednesday, February 23 years of emails were made public showing collaboration between some members of the Department of Corrections and Immigration and Customs Enforce...
Faulty Information About Immigrants Can Lead to Family Separation and Denied Asylum Claims
El Paso, Tx USA December 21, 2022 – Migrants continued to show up at the El Paso border on Wednesday. (Shutterstock) By Melissa Del Bosque, Documented NY Foreign data sharing agreements expanded...
Investigation Confirms Immigrant Women Held by ICE Underwent Illegal Medical Procedures at Georgia Facility
By Linda Nwoke, A Journal Exclusive In September 2020, the news broke on a class-action lawsuit filed by former detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, against several parti...
The Supreme Court Takes on Enforcement Priorities and Other Immigration Questions in its 2022 – 2023 Term
By Emma Winger, Immigration Impact The Supreme Court will tackle more hot button immigration issues in its 2022 – 2023 term. Front and center is the Biden administration’s effort to set immigratio...