"Sarah Towle joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her book "Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands" where she writes about how unwelcoming our government is to...
Valerie Lacarte, Ph.D., Aug. 2024 "The charge that immigrants are taking jobs from U.S.-born Black workers has made its way from conspiracy circles to the broader public conversation this election...
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU, the ACLU of Louisiana, Immigration Services & Legal Advocacy, National Immigration Project, Aug. 26. 2024 "A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups...
David Gutman, Seattle Times, Dec. 21, 2023
"A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay more than $23 million in back pay and penalties for violating Washington’s minimum wage law by paying people it detains just $1 a day, a unanimous Washington state Supreme Court confirmed Thursday. The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma can hold up to 1,575 people as they await review of their immigration status and potential deportation. Under its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the facility must provide a voluntary work program for people it detains, giving them the option to earn money while in custody. But the prison, which is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company that manages more than 90 detention and re-entry facilities, paid workers only $1 a day for the work they did, like cooking and cleaning."