Through zoning ordinances and public pressure, localities fight plans to treat immigrants like packages. Their successes can offer a blueprint for broader resistance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons has stated his horrific goal of building a deportation system that treats people like packages; “Like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings,” he said last year. To advance this dehumanizing vision, the Trump administration aims to acquire more than 20 warehouses to imprison p ...

Under former Mayor Eric Adams, 48 people died in New York City jails or immediately upon release from Department of Correction (DOC) custody. Any death is a tragedy—but 48, which may in fact be an undercount, represents a complete failure of the city to keep incarcerated people safe.For decades, Rikers Island has been dysfunctional and traumatizing ...