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    This Hispanic Heritage Month, Respect Immigrants’ Names

    Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock

    Published Oct 13, 2026 As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, one way that we can respect and honor immigrants is to respect their names, and their humanity.

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    What’s the Alternative? Instead of Detention Centers, Use Warehouses for Communities

    Published Jul 7, 2026 ICE wants to use abandoned warehouses to jail immigrants on a mass scale for indefinite periods. This resource highlights alternatives uses for these spaces—from libraries to office parks—that would strengthen communities...

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    Dignified Health Care Shouldn’t Stop With ICE Detention

    Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock and Matthew Lopas

    Published Jun 9, 2026 Health care workers and advocates deserve tools that can help them navigate the rising presence of ICE in hospitals, which is why we put together our new resource: Advocating on Behalf of Patients in Immigration Custody....

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    Advocating On Behalf of Patients in Immigration Custody: A Resource for Health Care Providers and Medical Staff

    Published Jun 9, 2026 This resource provides guidance for health care professionals on how to advocate and care for their patients with ICE and CBP agents present.

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    Rapid Response Update on Bond Eligibility for Undocumented Immigrants

    Published Apr 8, 2026 Read our latest legal explainer to learn how a new ICE policy attempts to expand immigration detention by limiting bond eligibility, and what this means for noncitizens under U.S. immigration...

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    Actualización de respuesta rápida sobre la elegibilidad para fianza de los inmigrantes indocumentados

    Published Apr 8, 2026

    Photo of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in a Congressional hearing.
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    Congress Has Ten Days to Stop Funding ICE’s Unchecked Abuse

    Ben D’Avanzo and Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock

    Published Feb 3, 2026 We must tell Congress that it has no more excuses. The nation is watching. Will members of...

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    Past is Precedent: When the U.S. Detained American Families in South Texas

    Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock

    Published Oct 17, 2025 From 1942 to 1948, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) operated an internment camp for...

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    10 Ways the Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Immigration Enforcement Funds Put Us All At Risk

    Heidi Altman and Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock

    Published Apr 2, 2025 This explainer describes how a budget reconciliation bill will unlock the Trump administration’s ability to experiment with new and heightened authoritarian tactics through immigration enforcement, threatening basic constitutional rights and...