No Papers, No Fear
A new generation of anti-deportation activists leaves no one behind, fighting to end the harms of the entire punishment industry.
11 posts in ‘crimmigration’
A new generation of anti-deportation activists leaves no one behind, fighting to end the harms of the entire punishment industry.
Jails have been foundational to immigration enforcement for over a century—and have always operated with a staggering absence of oversight and public awareness.
Ahead of the election, immigrants' rights advocates are working hard to be ready, no matter who wins.
Hardened, remote detention centers shape the experience of immigration imprisonment. Yet even there, a radically different future is possible.
To truly provide justice for those with criminal records, we must question harmful binaries that separate “good” from “bad” immigrants.
ICE entanglement in local law enforcement is just one iteration of a bigger system meant to police our communities. And we can fight it.
The Reagan administration’s entrenchment of a retaliatory immigration detention regime sowed seeds of resistance that persist to this day.
Immigrants fighting their deportations need lawyers. That doesn’t mean federally funding their defense should be a movement goal.
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
I finished my sentence more than seven years ago. But I’m still trapped in an immigration prison, where the punishment endures.
Our nation’s turn toward punitiveness for people arriving at the Southwest border coincided with the modern era of mass incarceration.