Collateral Consequences
Left behind: How deportation affects a Chicago mother and her 6 kids
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A Chicago mother explains how her husband’s 15-year-old conviction led to three deportations and a family torn apart.
Immigration
Do you know someone who has been deported after a criminal conviction?
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Injustice Watch and Borderless Magazine need your help to investigate the consequences noncitizens face after a criminal conviction.
Staff news
Meet the reporters: A Q&A with new Injustice Watch staff Josh McGhee and Rita Oceguera
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In an interview with Editor-in-Chief Adeshina Emmanuel, Josh and Rita discussed what issues they’re covering, and how they’re making sense of 2020.
News
Nueva ley interrumpiría proceso de deportación en las cárceles
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Un grupo de congresistas demócratas, liderado por el representante de Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, está renovando el impulso de una amplia legislación que desmantelaría muchos segmentos del llamado conducto de la prisión, a la deportación.
Immigration
The New Way Forward Act could disrupt the prison-to-deportation pipeline
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Chicago Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is leading a push to reverse decades of punitive policies that land thousands of immigrants in detention each year after coming into contact with the criminal justice system.
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China cabinets
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Grief was a China Cabinet
And in her neighborhood
Everybody ate off plastic
Because it was safer for the children
Immigration
Southwest Side construction worker quickly deported to Mexico while awaiting DACA decision
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With the Trump administration seeking to kill the Obama-era program for immigrants, Jesus Alberto ‘Beto’ Lopez Gutierrez, 25, was deported after suing ICE.
News
Trump administration threatens anew cities, counties over policing immigration
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Frustrated by a U.S. District Judge’s blanket order halting federal efforts to punish cities, counties that do not cooperate on immigration policing, the Trump administration has launched a new effort. Cook County, Chicago are among the jurisdictions that could fact cutbacks in funding for law enforcement.