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A protester bangs against the door of Maine Senator Susan Collins office as she demonstrates against ICE after an ICE shooting killed a man on July 13, 2026. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

ICE funding approved by Susan Collins and Trump GOP to deliver electric shock gloves to agents nationwide

by Stephen Prager August 12, 2026August 12, 2026

“Congress must end the blank check to ICE,” said the president of one immigrant rights group.

Protestors hold signs outside Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center, where ICE is housing detained immigrants on June 7, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails amid widespread due process violations, advocates say

by Maurizio Guerrero August 3, 2026August 3, 2026

Federal law enforcement agents confront demonstrators during a protest outside an immigrant processing and detention center on October 03, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

Rattling the Bars

ICE: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the war on us

by Mansa Musa July 13, 2026July 13, 2026

Gabriella Soto, whose husband is on a hunger strike, speaks outside Delaney Hall which is being used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

ICE kidnapped my husband on his way to buy diapers for our infant son

by Gabriela Soto June 30, 2026June 30, 2026

ICE agents spray a protestor with a chemical irritant before detaining them outside of the federal immigration center at Delaney Hall, where ICE is housing detained immigrants, on May 28, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

‘We demand freedom’: Immigrants on strike in New Jersey prison

by Luis Feliz Leon May 29, 2026May 29, 2026

ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) agents and pro-immigration activists face off outside the Delaney Hall migrant detention center on May 25, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

Protests erupt at New Jersey detention center in support of hunger striking detainees

by Shireen Akram-Boshar May 28, 2026May 28, 2026

A federal agent threatens to Taser protestors during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids and detainees transfer at Delaney Hall Detention Facility on June 13, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. Photo by Andres Kudacki/Getty Images.

Inequality Watch

ICE’s prison-for-profit machine may be undermining its own deportation push, congresswoman says

by Stephen Janis and Taya Graham May 13, 2026May 14, 2026

Cambridge, MA - April 21: Dozens of unionized graduate students at Harvard University picket the Harvard Science Center on April 21, 2026. Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Amid Trump attacks and Epstein scandals, 4,000 graduate students strike at Harvard University

by Maximillian Alvarez May 12, 2026May 12, 2026

Complaining of a lack of adequate food and medical care, along with no end in sight to their detention, immigrants at ICE's North Lake Processing Center began a hunger strike on April 20. Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Prisons and Policing

Hundreds of incarcerated migrants go on hunger strike in remote Michigan prison

by October Krausch April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

Demonstrators hold signs and gather to listen to speakers at Lafayette Park in front of the White House for a protest against the Trump administration on January 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. Photo by Luke Johnson/Getty Images

Politics and Movements: US

New Mexico becomes the latest state to end cooperation with ICE under new law

by Marianne Dhenin April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

Claire Connor of the Hagerstown Rapid Response Network stands in front of the massive warehouse in Williamsport, MD, that the Department of Homeland Security purchased to turn into an ICE detention facility. Photo credit: Maximillian Alvarez/TRNN.

Politics and Movements: US

Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him?

by Maximillian Alvarez April 10, 2026April 10, 2026

A local resident holds a giant sign that says "NO ICE WAREHOUSE" at a protest in Hagerstown, MD, on Feb. 24, 2026. Credit: Maximillian Alvarez/TRNN.

Politics and Movements: US

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland

by Maximillian Alvarez April 9, 2026April 9, 2026