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16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill on May 19 when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy. A nurse practitioner at the Border Patrol processing center in...

California and 19 other states on August 23, 2019, announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's proposed new rule to change the court order that limits the detention of migrant minors to 20 days, known as the Flores Rule. Heading...

152 people were picked up by ICE during raids in Chicago in June 2019. By the time you get to an ICE detention center, it may be too late. Statistically speaking, only 15-20% will ever speak to an attorney.  A...

On July 12, Americans are pledging to come together to demand an end to migrant detention camps. El Paso, Texas; Homestead, Florida; San Diego, California; New York City and Washington D.C. are the key sites where organizers hope thousands of...

On Tuesday, June 25, a photo of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande River to reach the United States started appearing online - and by Wednesday the border photo was...

Detainees at a Texas Border Patrol processing center that is seriously overcrowded were forced to wear dirty clothing for days and to stand on toilets to get air to breathe, according to a report from Time Magazine. When conducting surprise...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is reviewing a proposal to ban private detention centers to house ICE detainees, reports the Chicago Tribune. The Illinois Senate approved House Bill 2040.  A private company in Virginia, Immigration Centers of America, wants to construct...