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The multibillion-dollar immigrant detention industry

The criminalization of improper border crossings costs taxpayers billions but does little to stifle the flow of illegal immigrants In April, members of the immigrant advocacy group Enlace rallied on the doorsteps of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s Portland office. ...

21 Jul 2016 - Emily Green
Homelessness and immigration: A global crisis

COMMENTARY | ICE raids parallel police sweeps that break up homeless camps in Portland Imagine a woman asleep in a small apartment in a Southern state with her two children. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. “Who is it?” A male voice answers: “Open t ...

29 Jan 2016 - Pat Rumer
El dia de la madre, remembering those behind bars

As of this writing, today, May 10, is Mother’s Day in Mexico and Central America. I am standing on a small piece of land outside the Detention Center of ICE in Tacoma, Wash. We are here to remember the mothers who are incarcerated in this special jail bui ...

14 Jun 2014 - Pat Rumer
ACT network works to change police, ICE collusion policy

By Andrea Valderrama, Contributing Columnist “On August 12th, 2012 they arrested me around 2 a.m.,” the day laborer says. “I think they arrested me simply because they noticed I was Latino, but they wrote down it was for littering. The police officer told ...

6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff