asylum seekers

ICE starts new fiscal year with yet another death on its watch

ICE repeatedly claims that “fatalities in ICE custody, statistically, are exceedingly rare,” but that doesn’t erase the fact that at least 25 immigrants, including Abienwi, have died in the agency’s custody under the Trump administration. “At least four others,” NBC News said in a June report, “died shortly after being released from ICE custody.” This number doesn’t include the …

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Local activists go to border with supplies. Can you help?

Padi Selwyn is one of the founders of Preserve Rural Sonoma County. If you can make a donation this week to show support for her and her fellow activists, that would be great. Another asylum refugee died last week.  Dear friends and family,   On October 17, I will be traveling to south Texas with two friends from Sonoma …

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