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“We’re Watching”: how advocates are holding detention centers accountable by ‘witnessing’

“We’re Watching”: how advocates are holding detention centers accountable by ‘witnessing’

by Isabella Jacob | Dec 17, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  In May, Marjorie Ziefert and Chuck Kieffer realized that people in their community were disappearing, taken by immigration enforcement to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich.   The retired Ann Arbor residents started participating in...
WATCH: D.C. faith leaders advocate for immigrant community during federal crackdown

WATCH: D.C. faith leaders advocate for immigrant community during federal crackdown

by Alison Miller | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Padre Vidal Rivas has been a priest for over three decades. This is the first time he’s ever kept the doors locked during mass. “There is so much fear that people don’t even feel safe in churches,” Rivas said. “We celebrate with the doors...
Democrats skip Senate hearing on anti-ICE protests

Democrats skip Senate hearing on anti-ICE protests

by Aanika Sawhney and Naomi Taxay | Nov 20, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) walked out of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday after calling the hearing – titled “ICE Under Fire: The Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement” – an exercise in Republican political theater. At the...
‘Our teacher showed us what we would do if ICE agents came’

‘Our teacher showed us what we would do if ICE agents came’

by Jiah Choe and Norah D'Cruze | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

Sara arrived in the United States as a 7-year-old refugee when her family fled religious persecution in Bangladesh. Eleven years later, Sara now calls Montgomery County, Md., home. But if the Trump administration has its way, she would be immediately deported because...

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