Four years into a crackdown on alleged gang members that has discarded civil liberties, recent constitutional reforms create opportunities for further abuse.
On March 17th, El Salvador changed their constitution making laws much harsher by allowing life sentences for crimes like murder, rape, and terrorism. In the article it is stated that acts related to some sort of gang violence or offense are now being considered as acts of terrorism, causing these alleged gang members or "terrorists", who without being given a just trial, are serving life sentences, hurting innocent people who were falsley accused during President Bukele's gang crackdown. The changes are especially concerning for women and children as well. Women could face life in prison over abortion-related cases with little regard of context, and children as young as 12 could receive life sentences without parole. The article also describes concerns about prisoners being forced to work and families being exploited for money.
Overall, the author believes the reforms are less about real justice and more about punishment and control. Instead of focusing on rehabilitation, preventing violence, and protecting people’s rights, the government is making it easier to imprison people for life.
As legal protections for immigrants roll back, Dr. Gina Perez Dr. Gina Perez illustrates how 'sanctuary people' shift immigrant advocacy from traditional physical refuge toward holistic, faith-rooted community accompaniment.
Following the brutal murder of Johan Sebastian at the hands of ICE agent, David Broullitte, who has a documented history of racism, family violence, bipolar disorder, and death threats as well as a pattern with Cincinnati ICE agents committing sexual or violent offenses against women, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance began examining more thoroughly the criminal backgrounds of agents. What they found uncovered pervasive amounts of sexual violence, predation, and abuse of authority at the hands of ICE agents, particularly against children, that reflects the culture of this corrupt agency.
Following deadly shootings and a failed arrest conducted by two plainclothes ICE agents in Las Vegas, ICE updated their code of conduct to ban deportation officers from wearing jeans, hoodies, and graphic tees. This decision represents a shift towards making ICE a uniformed agency, standing in stark contrast to their long-held status of being a plainclothes agency.
Ahead of the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua, former comandante Dora María Téllez details how the movement lost its way—and how the future can be reclaimed.
Law enforcement experts are criticizing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics that killed a record number of civilians on U.S. streets. Police accountability and immigration enforcement experts say deaths will continue until Congress takes ICE's guns and bans them from making community arrests.
The American Immigration Council describes the detention system as a system of systematic failure exposing its flawed nature of detention or deportation as a one-size-fits-all response.
This Human Rights Watch report examines the execerbating conditions for detainees within immigration persecution and shedding light on the detention facility Camp East Montana in Texas and its treatment of detainees.
A year after Trump allocated billions for his immigration terror campaign, deportation agents are amassing historic amounts of military weapons.
