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A coalition of civil rights groups today offered evidence that United States citizens have been illegally detained, sometimes for many days, due to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “holds” placed on them after these men and women were erroneously flagged as deportable. The U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities (S-Comm) leads local communities to distrust law enforcement, encourages racial profiling and undermines the Constitution, critics of the program said today at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
A federal judge ordered sanctions against the United States government for failing to provide documents to the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and several other organizations and individuals in response to a request under the Freedom of Inf