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The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Jun 05 2024
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around ImmigrantsAround 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Surveillance and Resistance in the Borderlands
Feb 03 2022
By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and BeyondThe passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry.I’ve loved the land for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, a stunning place kni
The Department of Homeland Security Must Go
Nov 04 2020
By Laura Briggs, author of Taking Children: A History of American TerrorOn August 14, 2020, a US government watchdog agency found that the top two leaders of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were unlawfully serving in their roles. President Trump, afraid that Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinell
Watch: Naomi Paik on U.S. immigration and the abolitionist sanctuary movement
Jul 01 2020
Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, and patriarchal approach toward non-citizens. By all accounts, he embodies an ant
“Pho-get Trump”: Reflecting on Vietnamese refugee camps, detention, and deportation on World Refugee Day
Jun 20 2020
By Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and RepatriatesOn World Refugee Day, the UNHCR estimates that there are over 25 million refugees around the world. Although the United States has always accepted refugees selectively based on its political prioritie
Antecedents and Implications of the Mississippi ICE Raids
Sep 24 2019
On Wednesday, August 7th, 2019, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted the single largest day of raids on undocumented workers in the nation's history. Decried as merely the latest act of needless cruelty inflicted upon the communities of Latin American immigrants tha