Vera’s research reveals what ICE is not sharing with the public and the vast scale and human cost of Trump’s immigration agenda.

Recent reports show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently holding more than 59,000 people across the United States—a record and unprecedented high. To imprison such an enormous group of people, ICE has built a massive, nation-spanning network of detention centers. Beyond the notorious stateand federally-run facilities like th ...

With Washington, DC, now facing the racial profiling and militarized policing that have made LA less safe, local leaders can show the country how to rebuild trust.

Over the past two weeks, the country’s eyes have turned toward Washington, DC—many with horror, some with delight. The streets of the capital now swarm with federal agents, National Guard soldiers, and federalized police targeting people for supposed threats to public safety like sleeping outside or even throwing a sandwich. This worst of this occ ...

Incarcerating people before their immigration trials compounds injustice and strains an already crumbling system.

On July 8, the Trump administration announced a new policy that prevents judges from granting bond to anyone held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who had entered the United States without documentation. This policy—in tandem with the Laken Riley Act’s expansion of mandatory detention and the One Big Beautiful Bill’s super ...