Love: the most complicated, confusing, boundless, impassioned concept of our time. Of any time, really. We make a fool of ourselves for love, chasing even the idea of it when we cannot possibly find a better alternative to our desires. For many of us, we prefer watching love from the sidelines, living vicariously through the […]
Tag: ICE
Fast Food Workers Push for Workplace Protections Amid Rising ICE Raids
For thousands of fast food workers in California, going to work isn’t just long hours and low wages, but also the constant fear of ICE raids ambushing their workplace. Fast food workers are standing in solidarity with their undocumented coworkers for their employers to sign a pledge reaffirming workers’ rights amid ICE raids at workplaces […]
ICE Is Watching You
An ICE agent no longer needs to ask for your papers; they can simply point a smartphone at your face. Armed with artificial intelligence, the current administration has transformed mundane spaces, such as school parking lots and busy intersections, into instruments of mass surveillance. By weaponizing this technology against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, the […]
Living in Fear: The Human Cost of Trump’s Deportation Agenda
“My biggest fear is seeing her one morning and not knowing if she’ll come back.” This fear and daily uncertainty is a sentiment shared by the 5.8 million households in the United States that are home to at least one undocumented immigrant, amidst the second term of President Donald Trump. As of 2023, California had […]
Trump’s Message to California, the Nation
MacArthur Park is a civic treasure of Los Angeles. It stands as a testament to the diversity and resilience of the city and the people that inhabit it. On July 7, these values were challenged. Federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended upon the park in trucks and horseback, marching down Wilshire Boulevard […]
The Case for a “Civil Gideon”
Across cases nationwide, unaccompanied immigrant children walk into courtrooms alone, with no attorney by their side. Without guaranteed access to legal representation in immigration proceedings, they are often left to confront the full force of the American legal system on their own, along with the subsequent life-altering consequences. In these moments, the idea of “due […]
Orange County’s Resistance to Non-citizen Inclusion
Unless you want your identity to be stolen, never share your personal information to anyone, especially not your Social Security Number. But what should you do when, as a non-citizen, the government wants to seize all your sensitive information? In response to the redaction of 17 Orange County, California non-citizen registrants’ sensitive information, such as […]
Farmworkers: Victims of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Farmworkers are a crucial sector of the labor force who often go without praise. Despite the harsh working conditions, low wages and the increasing threat of climate change, farmworkers are putting their lives even more at risk during the global pandemic. Farmworkers serve an essential purpose in our society as the backbone of our food […]
America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization
In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained immigrant women. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people […]
ICE Illuminates America’s Backslide Into Fascism
Last week, Dawn Wooten, a nurse working at an ICE detention facility in Irwin County, Georgia, filed a bombshell whistle-blower report which alleged that female immigrant detainees were being subjected to forced hysterectomies among other unnecessary, non consensual medical procedures. Georgia’s Congressional Republicans have vehemently denied this report, and Department of Homeland Security 2nd-in-Command Ken […]