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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
11/26/2025The Overlooked Canadian Role in Trump’s Migrant Crackdown
11/24/2025Global Migration in 2024: A Snapshot
11/24/2025‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
11/21/2025Nearby ICE Raids Stoke Fear on North Carolina Campuses
11/21/2025The Cost of Detaining and Deporting One Person in America
11/20/2025EXPOSED: The "Detain, Deprive, Deport" Strategy Inside Adelanto ICE Detention Center
11/19/2025How are Border Patrol operations affecting kids and schools in Charlotte?
11/18/2025Judge tosses DOJ lawsuit challenging a New York law barring immigration agents from state courts
11/18/2025Judge denies Trump admin.'s request to pause release of over 400 arrested in local immigration ops
11/18/2025Immigrant student enrollment drops across U.S., straining school budgets and forcing cuts
11/17/2025Growing up in fear: Immigration enforcement fuels mental health crisis among children of immigrants
11/17/2025Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
11/17/2025New international student enrollments in US plunge this year, data shows
11/17/2025With Trump’s crackdown on immigration, public school enrollment across the U.S. is dwindling
11/17/2025Under ICE crackdown, thousands of students have left Mass. public schools
11/17/2025Residentes de Chicago luchan contra los secuestros y las deportaciones de ICE
11/16/2025In aftermath of ICE raid on Allston Car Wash, community groups work to protect local immigrant population
11/14/2025Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
11/13/2025New Trump directive could deny more visas based on health conditions, finances
11/12/2025 “You Have Arrived in Hell” Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison
11/12/2025Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
11/12/2025Man suffers seizure as ICE arrests his wife and officials claim he 'faked a medical emergency'
11/8/2025Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
11/8/2025Immigrants with health conditions may be denied visas under new Trump administration guidance
11/7/2025The Long Arc of Immigrant Power in New York
11/6/2025From Chicago to LA, neighborly solidarity fuels resistance to ICE
11/5/2025"He Needs Medicine!": Witness Says ICE Posed as Employers to Lure & Arrest Sick LA Man
10/31/2025Mexican American Artists Celebrate Day of the Dead Amid ICE Attacks
10/31/2025"30+ Agents, 1 Armored 'Bearcat'": Heavily Armed IRS-CI & ICE Raid Sparks Chaos in Oxnard
10/31/2025 ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate.
10/31/2025Federal Agents DEFY Judge's Restraining Order in Chicago, Deploy Gas & Force
10/30/2025Lawyer Explains Your Rights: What to Do If You See ICE (Documented & Undocumented)
10/30/20252 Illinois National Guard Members Speak Out: “I Won’t Turn Against My Neighbors”
10/29/2025New England educators and students brace for ICE raids
10/28/2025Fullerton to consider offering financial aid to immigrants in response to ICE sweeps
10/27/2025Federal judge orders DOJ, DHS to stop 'prejudicial' statements about Abrego Garcia and his case
10/27/2025DHS Is Billing Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids $5,000
10/24/2025"HE'S JUST A KID!" - SHOCK Video Shows Militarized Feds Violently Arrest Minor in Chicago
10/24/2025Trump backs off federal deployment in San Francisco after Huang, Benioff phone calls
10/23/2025It's the deadliest year for people in ICE custody in decades; next year could be worse
10/23/2025Mass. refugee orgs make ‘heartbreaking’ cuts as feds reduce funding despite spiking demand
10/22/2025Trump’s immigration crackdown has targeted Brazilian communities in Massachusetts. Here’s how they got here.
10/22/2025Former ICE director on why immigration raids are making U.S. less safe
10/20/2025Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School
10/19/2025Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
10/18/2025“On the Brink of a Civil War”: LA Man's Warning After Sister's ICE Arrest
10/17/2025We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
10/16/2025Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
10/15/2025The Case for Unbordered Reporting A guide for taking immigration stories beyond walls both physical and mental.
10/15/2025ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
10/14/2025 "He's a Citizen!" - ICE Tackles & Detains American Teen in Chicago
10/14/2025Protesters hold 14 hour demonstration outside Burlington, Massachusetts ICE facility
10/11/2025 "Like Animals on a Hunt": A Witness Exposes the Inglewood ICE Raid Save America Movement
10/9/2025 Mapping Deportations Whiteboard Explainer
10/8/2025Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
10/8/2025 Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump’s immigration crackdown
10/8/2025Documenting Deportation: A Dialogue on Race, Removal, and Resistance
10/7/2025Iced Out: Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
10/6/2025Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
10/5/2025Legal Groups File Emergency Motion to Stop ICE from Jailing Immigrant Teens in Adult Detention
10/4/2025Abrego Garcia wins request for hearing on whether smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive’
10/4/2025https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/federal-judge-extends-consent-decree-prohibiting-ice-from-arresting-people-without-warrants-or-probable-cause/
10/3/2025Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
10/3/2025Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive
10/3/2025“Freaky Friday”: What You Need to Know
10/3/2025The Gift of Dual Identity: Growing Up Cuban American by Gil Calderin, MIRA’s Director of Advocacy
10/2/2025With immigration crackdown, Chelsea schools confront steep enrollment drop
9/30/2025Feds Arrest and Injure Two American Citizens During Raid In Ladera Heights, Leaves One Unconscious
9/29/2025Comic Cristela Alonzo grew up in fear of border patrol. ICE has 'brought it all back'
9/29/2025To Migrate Is to Care For immigrant families, uprooting is the gift they give their children for a better education
9/26/2025As immigration raids step up, US citizens predicted at risk for detainment
9/25/2025Immigrant Defense Is the Frontline of the Fight for Democracy
9/18/2025Cruelty Campaign: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention
9/17/2025These sites help communities avoid ICE—and now they’re under attack
9/11/2025Volunteer Witnesses Are Key to Defending Immigrant Rights
9/10/2025Trump’s Nativist Strategy is Bread and Circus – and Deeply American
9/10/2025Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia
9/7/2025ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts
9/6/2025What We Saw at a Job Fair for ICE
9/3/2025Summer 2025: To Beat ICE, We Need to Shift the Battlefields From Statehouses and Courthouses to the Streets
9/3/2025Migration Through the Darién Gap: Teaching Resources
9/1/2025The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How To Fight Trump’s Occupation
8/29/20252 firefighters arrested by Border Patrol at Washington’s Bear Gulch Fire
8/28/2025Learning in the Shadows: How Immigration Enforcement Harms Students and Schools
8/26/2025What harsh immigration policies mean for students, families, and schools
8/25/2025Undocumented Black Communities Brace for Ripple Effects of Federal Takeover
8/21/2025Deportations Reach New High After Summer Surge in Immigration Arrests
8/20/2025The volunteers who offer a last line of care for migrants at a contentious border
8/20/2025Core Civic and the GEO Group Profits (SAM)
8/19/2025LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds
8/15/2025Irregular migrants in Europe face obstacles to exercising legal rights – where they have them
8/14/2025In L.A., Fear of ICE Raids Created a Tense First Day of School
8/14/2025Keep Walking
8/13/2025Safe Communities Act
8/11/2025‘They run, we chase’: Immigration raids test limits of ‘probable cause’
8/8/2025Justice Department Publishes List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions
8/5/2025What is Trump’s $15,000 visa bonds programme – and who does it affect?
8/5/2025Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation
8/4/2025Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Deportations of Immigrants with Parole Status
8/4/2025What It Will Take to Get U.S. Citizens to Work the Farm — According to Dolores Huerta
8/2/2025US appeals court indicates it might declare Trump’s birthright citizenship order unconstitutional
8/1/2025A majority of ICE arrests in Trump's first 5 months took place in border and Southern states, figures show
7/31/2025US workers say Trump’s immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages: ‘A strain on everybody’
7/29/2025The business owner and a bystander stepped in as uniformed officers walked into a car wash in Torrance, CA.
7/25/2025 Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
7/25/2025Hold Your Tongue
7/25/2025ICE Doesn’t Want You to See This — But We’re Showing It to the Nation
7/23/2025 Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
7/23/2025They came to the U.S. to attend middle school. Then the immigration crackdown began.
7/21/2025 A look at life for small group of refugees allowed in U.S. since Trump took office
7/18/2025Noncriminal ICE arrests spiked in June
7/17/2025'Weaponization of Data': Trump Admin Gives ICE Personal Info of 79 Million Medicaid Recipients
7/17/2025Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression
7/16/2025Superman Was Always an Immigrant: How America's Superheroes Became Culture War Targets
7/14/2025Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries
7/13/2025ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
7/12/2025Trump threatens to strip Rosie O’Donnell of U.S. citizenship.
7/12/2025How Organizers in California's Central Valley Are Fighting ICE Raids and Deportations | Teen Vogue
7/11/2025Judge blocks Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship
7/10/2025The care work of the courtroom: How women lawyers are fighting to keep immigrants safe
7/10/2025Protesters and US federal agents clash during immigration raid at California farm – video
7/10/2025Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs
7/10/2025Immigrants Describe Torturous Conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Detention Camp
7/9/2025El Salvador Says U.S. Controls Fate of Venezuelans Transferred to Notorious Mega-Prison
7/9/2025“Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial
7/9/2025“God’s Work": Unmasking False Liberators
7/8/2025ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids
7/7/2025The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
7/7/2025The ripple effect of ICE raids in LA
7/6/2025U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo
7/5/2025Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
7/5/2025Masked
7/2/2025Selling “Alligator Alcatraz” Prison Merchandise Is a Deranged New Low for the GOP
7/2/2025The Truth About Migrant Labor and America’s Economy
7/1/2025Safe Communities Act pdf
7/1/2025The Truth About Migrant Labor and America’s Economy
7/1/2025Why Is Trump Returning MS-13 Leaders to El Salvador? 5 Takeaways From the Times Investigation.
6/30/2025Willy Chavarria Made a Powerful Statement About Deportations During Paris Runway Show
6/28/2025The Three Marine Brothers Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by America What does America owe its Latino service members?
6/27/2025The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
6/25/20255% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They’re 20% of Potential Deportations.
6/18/2025Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
6/17/2025‘It’s worse than COVID.’ ICE raids empty LA produce markets and restaurants.
6/17/2025A Milford teen spent six days in ICE detention without sunlight or a shower. Life back at home isn’t what he expected.
6/11/2025Trump’s Travel Ban Targets Black Migrants as Protests and Deportations Spread
6/11/2025ICE mandate to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day fuels raids in Massachusetts communities
6/10/2025The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
6/10/2025This is what an ICE arrest in Boston immigration court looks like
6/9/2025Labor Leader Arrested During Immigration Protest Is Released on Bond
6/9/2025ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
6/7/2025Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson (scroll to Kilmar Abrego Garcia)
6/6/2025Why Immigration Raids in Puerto Rico Hit Differently
6/6/2025From inside detention facility, Vineyard Brazilian immigrant shares story of his arrest
6/5/2025 Crowd of neighbors confront ICE agents who raided a local restaurant
6/4/2025ICE Now Expanding into Local Law Enforcement As Spearhead of Trump Repression.
6/4/2025Somerville High School Show Up
6/4/2025The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag
6/1/2025Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration, for Now, to End Biden-Era Migrant Program
5/30/2025Photos, video from ICE raid
5/29/2025Island faith leaders decry ICE detentions
5/29/2025The U.S. Is Trying to Legalize the Indefinite Detention of Migrant Children
5/28/2025Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Processing of Immigration Benefit Applications for Humanitarian Parole Recipients and Certifies Nationwide Class to Ensure All Impacted Individuals are Protected
5/28/2025Federal Officers Arrest 40 on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
5/27/2025Trump administration looks to end protections for migrant children in U.S. custody
5/22/2025They crossed the border for better schools. Now, some families are leaving the US
5/21/2025What you - yes, you - should know about interacting with ICE
5/19/2025TRUMP IS BUILDING A GLOBAL GULAG FOR IMMIGRANTS CAPTURED BY ICE The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
5/15/2025An agency tasked with protecting immigrant children is becoming an enforcement arm, current and former staffers say
5/14/202512-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts
5/13/2025Pro-Trump Green Card Holder Was Arrested by ICE After Over 30 Years in US
5/9/202516-Year-Old Violently Arrested for Trying to Stop Mother's ICE 'Kidnapping' in Massachusetts
5/9/2025ICE Just Deported Two More US Citizen Children
5/9/2025Trump administration plans to deport migrants to Libya and other countries
5/8/2025Trump Taps Refugee Fund To Welcome White South Africans Within Days
5/6/2025U.S. offers to pay immigrants $1,000 stipend to leave, says it’ll save money
5/5/2025America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
5/1/20253 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say
4/27/2025An Overview of U.S. Refugee Law and Policy
4/24/2025Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime
4/19/2025The Emergency Is Here
4/17/2025Unauthorized immigrants and the economy
4/15/2025Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target
4/15/2025Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
4/14/2025Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminalrecord
4/14/2025'Outrageous Abuse of Power': Trump Weaponizes Social Security for Deportation Spree
4/11/2025U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
4/10/2025What Rights Do Immigrants Have?
4/9/2025IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants’ tax data to ICE, AP sources say
4/8/2025How does deportation work, and how much does it cost? We break it down
4/7/2025Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
4/1/2025Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts
3/26/2025Half a trillion vanished? IRS bombshell as agency warns DOGE may have cost U.S. a shocking $500 billion; here's the full detail
3/25/2025U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
3/23/2025Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at US Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak durinHomeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
3/21/2025As Trump Broadens Crackdown, Focus Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
3/21/2025Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mom once named to Time’s 100 Most Influential list, has been detained by ICE in Colorado
3/19/2025With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch
3/16/2025Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
3/16/2025First-Person, Secondhand: Nine Books on Migration That Experiment with Point of View
3/14/2025How to Cope With Fear and Anxiety Around Trump's Immigration Crackdown
3/10/2025Know Your Rights: Here's How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics and Unconstitutional Actions
3/6/2025Wu defends Boston's record on crime, Trust Act as congressional Republicans grill mayors over immigration
3/5/2025German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility
2/28/2025The Deportation Machine
2/24/2025In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?
2/24/2025For Fearful Immigrants, It’s the Card They All Want Right Now
2/23/2025A Long History of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo: A Q&A with Jenna Loyd
2/21/2025Omar takes heavy flak for teaching immigrant rights
2/14/2025Groups Sue Trump Administration for Access to Immigrants Sent from U.S. to Guantánamo Bay
2/12/2025Campuses No Longer Off-Limits to ICE
2/5/2025When ICE Comes Calling, Rapid Community Responses Can Make a Difference
2/3/2025Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson – Colombia/Immigration
1/27/2025Rep. Ilhan Omar Reintroduces the Neighbors Not Enemies Act to Repeal Alien Enemies Act
1/24/2025 Immigration Crossroads: Five Historical Lessons for Illuminating Today's Policy Debates
1/23/2025Mass Deportation Is Coming Under Trump — But Immigration Activists Are Mobilizing to Stop It
1/23/2025ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood — Here’s What to Know
1/22/2025Trump Administration Updates: Federal Workers Told to Inform on Colleagues Trying to Dodge D.E.I. Crackdown
1/22/2025A Murky Setback for DACA
1/22/2025Center Stage: Immigration
1/22/2025Ahead of Day 1, Trump’s Team Works to Temper Expectations on Immigration
1/19/2025The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
1/15/2025What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents.
1/7/2025Attribution
The resource list was compiled by Lynn Ditchfield with contributions from:
- Cynthia Aguilar
- Anita Botti
- Cheri Cluff
- Michael Ditchfield**
- Victoria Dryfoos
- Camila Fernandez
- Justen Foster
- Shari Geistfeld**
- Linda Graham
- Marissa A. Gutierrez-Vicario
- Julie Huff**
- Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
- Jenik Munafo Khelalfa
- Roslyn Sue Le Mesurier
- Kendra Mills
- Vivian Maria Poey
- Nadia Sahila
- Jane Sampaio
- Guy Michel Telemanque
- Rachel Toon
- Others
* - especially informative content
** - special thanks
Funds to help support granted in part by:
- Mass Cultural Council (MVLCC)
- Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship