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800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.
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CNN @cnn.com · 19d
Immigration attorneys, immigrants living in the US legally and non-White US citizens now worry that innocuous activities that aren’t indicative of illegal behavior will be used as reasons for law enforcement to stop and question them.
Supreme Court decision fuels legal immigrants’ fears they’ll be stopped by law enforcement | CNN Politics
Legal immigrants are more worried since the Supreme Court cleared the way for a person’s ethnicity to be a factor in immigration stops by law enforcement.
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foodandwater.bsky.social
“All of these deaths are avoidable, perpetuated by the cruelty of our policies...But the heat deaths in particular seem so senseless.”

Cruel and senseless: two words that sum up this administration.
El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse - Inside Climate News
In El Paso, heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say not enough is being done to protect the region’s most vulnerable people.
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motherjones.com
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
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According to new government statistics, U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before. CPB searched 14,899 devices of international travellers between April and June, a 17% rise on the previous 2022 record high. finance.yahoo.com/news/device-...
Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows
There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.
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NEW: Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat

The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice, and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes isn’t happening at all.
Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat
The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes not happening at all.
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motherjones.com
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
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NPR @npr.org · Aug 3
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 1
BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.
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motherjones.com
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
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