Migrant Detention

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/28/2021
  

  The Original Sin of America’s Broken Immigration Courts

  A decision made by Franklin Roosevelt to move immigration services from jurisdiction of the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice laid the groundwork for criminalizing immigration and for abusive practices that came to light in the most recent administration. 

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• 2/14/2021
  

  Immigrant Families are the Second Casualty of War

  by Elliott Young

  If truth is the first casualty in war, immigrants follow as a close second. During the first and second world wars, tens of thousands of immigrants in the United States were locked up in prisons as part of a geopolitical game beyond their control.