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2026 News
House lawmakers send bill to Senate on restricting ICE from Mass. courthouses
3/26/2026Wormy Food, Intimidating Guards, Sick Kids: Inside ICE’s Only Family Detention Center
3/25/2026Thousands of High School Students Walk Out To Protest Mass Deportation: ‘We Believe In The Constitution, ICE Does Not’
3/24/2026US judge blocks Trump administration from detaining thousands of refugees
3/23/2026Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
3/23/2026DHS Ad Investigation Reveals Thousands Spent on Horse, Hair, Makeup
3/23/2026Legal immigration to U.S. is falling from most countries under Trump, data shows The State Department issued about a quarter million fewer visas in the first eight months of 2025, compared with the same period in 2024.
3/22/2026A 17-Year-Old Is Fighting the ICE Detention Center in Our Backyard
3/22/2026Immigration Unmasked
3/20/2026Here’s what’s in the ‘PROTECT Act,’ a Massachusetts House-backed bill to limit ICE activities
3/20/2026An immigration court few have heard of is quietly shaping policy behind the scenes
3/20/2026 Trump administration waves the white flag in some ICE cases The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions.
3/20/2026People of the Twin Cities win an award for courage during Operation Metro Surge
3/19/2026Metro Monitor 2026: The relationship between immigration and regional economic performance over the past decade
3/18/2026Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
3/15/2026ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
3/6/2026A Reporter in Nashville, Detained by ICE
3/6/2026Constitutional rights in the age of ICE
3/5/2026SHIELD Act Introduced to Expand Legal Aid for Immigrants Facing Deportation
3/5/2026US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
3/1/2026Takeaways from AP’s report on the ICE detention center holding children and parents
2/28/2026A nearly blind refugee is found dead after Border Patrol agents drop him at Buffalo doughnut shop
2/27/2026DHS picked poor spot for new GA ICE detention center, local officials say. Here’s why Read more at: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/state/georgia/article314822983.html#storylink=cpy
2/25/2026ICE Took Their Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back
2/24/2026IRS Info Sharing for ICE Enforcement Withstands Court Appeal
2/24/2026ICE is taking immigration papers from people they detained
2/24/2026ICE Took Their Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back
2/24/2026How do you explain ICE to your child? Immigrant families are having ‘The Talk’
2/24/2026ICE whistleblower accuses agency of ‘deficient, defective and broken’ training amid hiring surge
2/23/2026‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
2/21/2026Minnesotans Keep the Heat on Despite ICE ‘Drawdown’
2/20/2026Trump administration gives ICE broader powers to detain legal refugees, citing security concerns
2/19/2026Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up
2/16/2026Judge gives Trump administration 2 weeks to retrieve deported Babson student
2/14/2026Feds investigate whether ICE officers lied about shooting of Venezuelan man in Minneapolis
2/13/2026Ayotte releases info on Trump administration’s ‘new detention model’ for ICE facilities across the US
2/12/2026Poll: Trump's ratings on immigration tumble as Americans lose confidence in his top issue
2/11/2026Takeaways from AP’s review of recent criminal cases against ICE employees and contractors
2/11/2026Haitians, Neighbors in Springfield, Ohio, Resist Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
2/10/2026Judge orders four held in new immigration unit at Angola prison to be released
2/10/2026Houston High School Students Protest ICE, Defy Attempts to Restrict Free Speech
2/9/2026'Lawless': Mass. Congresswoman denied entry to Burlington ICE facility
2/9/2026Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994
2/3/2026TPS for Haiti Remains Active / TPS pou Ayiti toujou aktif
2/3/2026Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
2/1/2026Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
2/1/2026What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
1/31/2026Spain Shows Another Immigration Policy Is Possible
1/31/2026Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
1/30/2026Enough Is Enough - Governor Healey and Immigrant Advocates Demand an End to ICE Brutality
1/30/2026‘All are welcome here’
1/29/2026Protect Act: The Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus (MBLLC) is proud to stand behind the provisions of the PROTECT Act (An Act promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment).
1/29/2026Organization Aims to Aid Fourth Amendment Education
1/29/2026Billy Bragg Releases Anti-ICE Protest Song ‘City of Heroes’
1/29/2026Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis'
1/28/2026The Voice in the Deportation Machine
1/28/2026ICE isn’t just tracking your phone. The surveillance technology goes further than that.
1/28/2026America’s Immigration Labor Shock
1/27/2026Judge Orders ICE Chief to Appear in Court Over Potential Contempt
1/27/2026New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
1/27/2026"It was a mess": Inside Trump's pivot on Minnesota - Bovine removed
1/26/2026The River and the Fever Dream; A converted digital camera can use infrared light to reveal Texas border militarization—in the same way the armed forces once scanned for enemies from the sky.
1/26/2026On the Front Lines of the Immigration Crackdown
1/26/2026It’s Time for Concrete Action on ICE. Sadly, We Have the Democrats.
1/26/2026Senate Democrats and Republicans call for investigation into killing of Alex Pretti
1/25/2026Welcome to the American Winter: In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
1/25/2026Immigrant families protest inside Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
1/24/2026Protesters are outraged over ICE’s latest targets: school-aged children
1/23/2026What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?
1/22/2026Standing-Room-Only Crowd Packs Forum On Immigration, Civil Rights, ICE Impact
1/22/2026In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
1/19/2026I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping.
1/16/2026Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
1/16/2026New documents shed light on Renee Good’s ties to ICE monitoring efforts in Minneapolis
1/14/2026Weak Violence, Strong Peace: Who We Are in This Crisis
1/14/2026Politics Chat, January 13, 2026
1/13/2026A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets
1/13/2026DOJ prosecutors resign in protest over handling of ICE shooting investigation
1/13/2026Estallan protestas contra asesinato por agentes de ICE en Minnesota
1/12/2026Letters from an American: shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis
1/10/2026Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis: A Tragedy That Must Not Be Ignored
1/8/2026Photo Gallery: The Day of Renee Good’s Killing, Minnesotans Gathered
1/8/2026Avelo Airlines to end ICE deportation charters as it cuts commercial flights, jobs
1/7/2026Homeland Security plans 2,000 officers in Minnesota for its ‘largest immigration operation ever’
1/6/2026Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight
1/5/2026A teen was held by ICE in CT. How a lawyer and advocates here helped him return to his father.
1/2/2026Letters from an American -Immigration in US from 1892- HCR
1/1/2026Attribution
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