Hundreds of community members marched in Concord’s Monument neighborhood to show love and solidarity with immigrant families facing increased immigration enforcement, with elected officials and faith leaders joining in to affirm support and reject injustice.
Opposition to housing construction is often rooted in population alarmism, which treats people as the problem and scarcity as a moral necessity, rather than a policy failure, and ignores the benefits of density and the adaptability of social systems.
The Trump administration is targeting immigrant advocacy groups and their hotlines, which provide critical support to vulnerable families, with coordinated political attacks aimed at disrupting their services.
Calls to abolish ICE have surged after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, reopening a volatile internal debate within the Democratic Party and prompting some lawmakers to introduce the Abolish ICE Act.
Immigration restrictions have caused a shortage of foreign-trained doctors and nurses in rural West Virginia hospitals, leading to increased pressures on already strained health systems and reduced services for patients.
Immigrant rights advocates filed an emergency motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging Virginia’s in-state tuition law for immigrant students after state officials agreed to invalidate the statute without mounting a defense, potentially affecting the educational futures of thousands of students.
Dr. Charis Kubrin and Dr. Mark Lipsey were awarded the Stockholm Prize for Criminology for their research showing that immigration is associated with lower crime rates, challenging the narrative that immigrants drive higher levels of criminal activity.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve H.R. 4371, a bill that would expand the federal government’s power to detain unaccompanied immigrant children and authorize invasive search practices, which the ACLU warns could cause serious psychological harm to children.
Immigrants in Alabama face harsher punishments for the same crimes as citizens, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants, according to a ProPublica review of over 100 court cases.
Los Angeles County has launched a new pilot removal defense program to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation proceedings, funded by unclaimed cy pres funds from the Roy settlement.
The Trump administration has frozen all immigration applications from 19 countries, including the suspension of citizenship ceremonies, in an effort to limit legal immigration pathways.
Family separations are occurring across the US due to ICE enforcement, resulting in hundreds of immigrant children being placed in government shelters and parents being deported or left with the choice of leaving their children in the care of another safe adult.
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the date of review on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship to Dec. 5, 2025, with multiple federal lawsuits having temporarily blocked the order from being enforced.
Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese immigrant, was found dead in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pennsylvania, with his hands and feet tied behind him, sparking outrage from his family and advocacy groups who are calling for justice and accountability.
Legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández challenges the Justice Department’s defense of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the US has followed broad birthright citizenship since 1868 and that the government’s framing is historically inaccurate and built on misleading global comparisons.
The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, accusing it of conducting unconstitutional surveillance through automated license plate readers without warrants or judicial oversight.
Venezuelan immigrants detained in a federal raid in Chicago have spoken out about their experiences, revealing that they were taken away in the middle of the night with no explanation and have since been deported or detained in jails across the US.
Immigrants detained at California’s largest immigration detention center have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging inhumane and unlawful treatment, including inadequate medical care, excessive isolation, and denial of basic necessities.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a coalition of 15 attorneys general opposing the Trump administration’s decision to strip Temporary Protected Status from Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants, which could put hundreds of thousands at risk of deportation and have a significant economic and social impact.
Residents of Dublin, CA and immigrant justice advocates are urging the City Council to reject any attempt to reopen the former Federal Correctional Institution Dublin as an immigration detention center due to its documented history of staff sexual abuse and dangerous conditions.