The Trump administration’s July 4th fireworks show will likely produce unhealthy levels of pollution at the National Mall and the surrounding area—a fitting byproduct of the president’s 250th American anniversary celebration. ... read full post
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This administration simply does not learn. The disastrous Operation Metro Surge produced an unprecedented city-wide resistance even in the face of two very public murders by ICE agents. The head of Metro was sent home to pasture, and then to retire. But the DOJ just can’t let it go. In an attempt to compound its defeat it has brought serious charges against 15 protesters, including a union carpenter and a professor of Buddhism at Macalester College. ... read full post
Citizens Bank has long been the key financier behind private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group’s meteoric growth. In addition, the bank has publicly minimized reports of mistreatment and abuse at privately-run ICE jails, describing them as “exaggerated.” ... read full post
In New Jersey, Detainees at Delaney Hall have ended their hunger strike in the face of extreme retaliation from ICE and GEO Group, but the struggle continues. During a Father’s Day vigil outside the ICE jail, an alleged employee of the facility hit a woman with his car. Employee or not, this is an outrage. Sally Pillay, an advocate with Eyes on ICE, said: “Because of the intimidation tactics, the disciplinary consequences for folks to be placed in segregation, (detainees) have now resorted to going back to job assignments and eating.” ... read full post
Last week, a federal judge in Indiana released Salah Sarsour from prison, ruling that his detention raises serious first amendment concerns, particularly regarding free speech about Palestine. A car full of his family and friends immediately departed for Brazil, Indiana, where Salah had been held for two and a half months, picking him up and returning to Milwaukee, where a crowd of hundreds congregated in the parking lot of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee to greet him. ... read full post
This past Tuesday, ICE confirmed that it had moved all prisoners out of its notorious Florida concentration camp, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz" by both mainstream media and the Trump admin’s right wing supporters. ... read full post