What Can $20 Million Buy? Activists Attempt to Post Bond for 2,500 Parents in Immigration Detention What Can $20 Million Buy? Activists Attempt to Post Bond for 2,500 Parents in Immigration Detention
Detained mothers often have to pay the government $10,000 before being allowed to reunite with their children.
Jul 11, 2018 / Julianne Hing
Tell Microsoft and All Other Tech Companies to Break Ties with ICE Tell Microsoft and All Other Tech Companies to Break Ties with ICE
Over 100 Microsoft employees have already joined the campaign.
Jul 5, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction
From the Muslim Ban to Family Separation, Fight to End Attacks on Immigrants From the Muslim Ban to Family Separation, Fight to End Attacks on Immigrants
From speaking out to joining protests, take action to demand freedom for immigrants.
Jun 26, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction
Trump’s Border: Gitmo for Kids Trump’s Border: Gitmo for Kids
The Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility set the stage structurally, institutionally, and legally for what we’ve just witnessed at the border.
Jun 26, 2018 / Karen J. Greenberg
Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison. Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison.
How sentencing reform could drastically reduce the number of people behind bars in California.
Jun 22, 2018 / Video / Scott Graves and Steven Bliss
The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart
The 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents face a tangled legal process and a shortage of lawyers to help them through it.
Jun 21, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter
Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration
It also opens up military bases as detention centers and indicates an intention to reopen the Flores settlement.
Jun 20, 2018 / Julianne Hing
How Private Contractors Enable Trump’s Cruelties at the Border How Private Contractors Enable Trump’s Cruelties at the Border
Private-prison groups and several Fortune 500 companies are profiting off “zero-tolerance” enforcement.
Jun 20, 2018 / David Dayen
Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible—and These Nuns Are Not Having It Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible—and These Nuns Are Not Having It
“Give me a break,” says Sister Simone Campbell.
Jun 20, 2018 / John Nichols
Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’ Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
The congresswoman met with dozens of immigrant mothers who have had their children forcibly removed.
Jun 11, 2018 / Joan Walsh