Immigration briefing: ICE eyes mobile detention as Texas agent shooting sparks outcry

What this means

The detention system is still growing, and facilities that can be moved are harder for neighbors and local officials to track or oppose. Where a person is held decides how quickly family and a lawyer can reach them, so a system built to relocate people makes it easier for them to disappear from view.

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Sign the AAACT petition calling on Congress to replace ICE with a humane, rights-based system.
If someone in your household is at risk, make a plan now: keep important documents together and write down the phone number of a lawyer or a trusted contact.
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