Mississippi Senate Passes Bill To Kill Sanctuary Cities

Days after the Trump administration issued a report aimed at scaring “jurisdictions into becoming deportation agents,” is poised to enact an anti-sanctuary cities law.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Sean Tindell, R-Gulfport, peers at lawmakers as he describes legislation prohibiting sanctuary cities and requiring local cooperation with federal immigration control, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Days after the Trump administration put out its first "sinister" immigrant crime list, Mississippi is poised to enact an anti-sanctuary cities bill that one expert says will fuel racial profiling and make communities less safe. The Mississippi Senate passed the measure, Senate Bill 2710 on Tuesday, and it now heads to the desk of Gov. Phil

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Private Prisons Positioned To Reap Massive Profits From Immigrantion Raids

CoreCivic — formerly the Corrections Corporation of America — has said it is able to provide the extra detention facilities needed to enforce Trump’s executive orders on immigration.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Mexico Immigration

(Report) --- U.S. President Donald Trump has begun to follow through on his promise to crack down on immigration and roll out harsh border securitization, and while undocumented immigrants will face the suffer the gravest repercussions, private prisons, on the other hand, stand to be the biggest beneficiaries. In just two weeks since Trump

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ACLU Asks Police To Turn Off Body Cams During Inauguration And Women’s March

Thousands have gathered in Washington D.C. for the Presidential Inauguration and Women’s March, raising questions of police surveillance and protection of the First Amendment.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
A Philadelphia police officer demonstrates a body-worn camera used as part of a pilot project in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke)

(REPORT) --- This weekend, the steps of the capitol will draw hundreds of thousands for the Presidential Inauguration, followed by the Women’s March on Washington. Tensions are high surrounding the event, given the tumultuous political climate and a seemingly endless wave of police brutality. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken the

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ACLU Demands Secret Court Hand Over Crucial Rulings On Surveillance Law

“The people of this country can’t hold the government accountable for its surveillance activities unless they know what our laws allow”

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Surveillance

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to reveal the secret court opinions with "novel or significant interpretations" of surveillance law, in a renewed push for government transparency. The motion, filed Wednesday by the ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, asks the Foreign Intelligence

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Report: Every 25 Seconds Someone Funneled Into Criminal Justice System For Personal Drug Use

While more people are arrested for simple drug possession in the US than for any other crime, mainstream discussions of criminal justice reform rarely question whether drug use should be criminalized at all.

Human Rights Watch
By Human Rights Watch
A Washington police officer inspects various items of hemp during a hemp protest, Monday, June 11, 2012, in Washington.

The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a joint report released today. Enforcement ruins individual and family lives, discriminates against people of color, and undermines public health. The

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Documents Reveal Widespread Social Media Monitoring By California Law Enforcement

The release of thousands of pages of documents has revealed that California law enforcement have secretly acquired social media monitoring tools that focus on activists.

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
Facebook

The American Civil Liberties Union of California has obtained thousands of pages of documents pertaining to California law enforcement agencies secretly purchasing social media surveillance software. The ACLU of California filed open records requests with 63 police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys across California and found that at

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