The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) is slated for a vote soon after the midterm elections. As written, this bill would pave a path for detention expansion by making immigration detention facilities easier to build and much harder to stop. It would undermine years of work by organizations across the country to protect communities and resist detention expansion, weakening the tools we use to hold immigration agencies accountable.

The United States already operates the largest immigration detention system in the world, bolstered by an unprecedented $45 billion to expand immigration detention from H.R.1 last year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) runs a growing network of more than 200 long-term detention centers, alongside hundreds of short-term facilities across the country. Every day, ICE holds tens of thousands of people in this system with an extensive, well-documented history of abuse and neglect. Since 2003, more than 300 people have died in ICE custody, including 60 people during the current Trump administration. As conditions worsen, ICE’s footprint continues to grow dramatically, as written this bill would strip communities from tools used to fight back against this expansion.

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) is slated for a vote soon after the midterm elections. As written, this bill would pave a path for detention expansion by making immigration detention facilities easier to build and much harder to stop. It would undermine years of work by organizations across the country to protect communities and resist detention expansion, weakening the tools we use to hold immigration agencies accountable.

The United States already operates the largest immigration detention system in the world, bolstered by an unprecedented $45 billion to expand immigration detention from H.R.1 last year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) runs a growing network of more than 200 long-term detention centers, alongside hundreds of short-term facilities across the country. Every day, ICE holds tens of thousands of people in this system with an extensive, well-documented history of abuse and neglect. Since 2003, more than 300 people have died in ICE custody, including 60 people during the current Trump administration. As conditions worsen, ICE’s footprint continues to grow dramatically, as written this bill would strip communities from tools used to fight back against this expansion.

(Washington, D.C., November 3, 2026) – In response to President Trump's announcement that the United States will end its $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel at the end of this year, DAWN issues the following statement:

"A statement by a U.S. president that the U.S. will imminently stop providing Israel with billions in military aid annually is an unprecedented breakthrough that was unfathomable just a few years ago and would not have been possible without the decades of dogged advocacy of the Palestine movement," said Omar Shakir, DAWN's Executive Director. "Ending the U.S.'s annual provision of several billion dollars of aid, though, will not end U.S. complicity in Israel's genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The U.S. should suspend all arms transfers to Israel, including foreign military financing, foreign military sales, and direct commercial sales, as its own laws already require."

(Washington, D.C., November 3, 2026) – In response to President Trump's announcement that the United States will end its $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel at the end of this year, DAWN issues the following statement:

"A statement by a U.S. president that the U.S. will imminently stop providing Israel with billions in military aid annually is an unprecedented breakthrough that was unfathomable just a few years ago and would not have been possible without the decades of dogged advocacy of the Palestine movement," said Omar Shakir, DAWN's Executive Director. "Ending the U.S.'s annual provision of several billion dollars of aid, though, will not end U.S. complicity in Israel's genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The U.S. should suspend all arms transfers to Israel, including foreign military financing, foreign military sales, and direct commercial sales, as its own laws already require."

1. He has abandoned Medicare for All At a time when millions of Americans

2. He refuses to break with Israel

3. He has failed to champion major cuts to the obscene Pentagon budget

4. He continues to accept pro-Israel lobby money

5. His Backroom Dealings with Jared Kushner Raise Serious Questions About His Judgment

6. He Has Elevated Warhawks to Key Foreign-Policy Positions

7. Jeffries Represents the Democratic Party's Dependence on Corporate Money

8. He has defended the Democratic establishment against progressive challengers

9. He Wants to Reform ICE, Not Abolish It

10. He Has Failed to Champion Bold Climate Action

"ommunity to host press conference before event at Rutgers Univ on Nov 16 Press Conference Monday, Nov 16

New Brunswick, NJ — The New Brunswick community is sounding the alarm that Rutgers State University plans to host the former ICE/Border Patrol Commander who directed the abuses in Chicago and Minneapolis, Greg Bovino. Community groups will host their own press conference outside the event at Rutgers University on November 16."

"The estranged father of Britain’s Duchess of Sussex has been charged with possession of child sex abuse material"

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The Trump administration’s online accounts are circulating images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud, in social media posts slammed by critics as inflammatory rhetoric.

Only days before the midterm election, the posts coincide with the government’s sweeping campaign to show its aggressive immigration enforcement and highlight efforts to crack down on fraud to save taxpayers money when rising healthcare costs and other economic stressors have made affordability a top voter concern.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on Saturday on social media a photo of the black man standing in front of stacks of what appear to be US currency with the headline, SNAP FRAUDSTER, an apparent reference to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme, formerly known as food stamps.

He is holding aloft what appears to be a bill set aflame. “Some costumes come with a price tag. This one comes with a prison sentence,” it says to the backdrop of fake spirit Halloween costume packaging.

Demonstrators in Lima demanded government action on extortion, forest fires and the rising cost of living, while families of people killed during earlier protests called for justice.

At this writing on Oct. 27, some 450 Salvadoran soldiers have already landed in Haiti in the past five days, with another 700 reportedly to arrive soon. The first deployment was 100 “special forces” troops deployed on Oct. 22, the day after Bukele announced his “rescue operation.” (As we go to press, the Salvadoran outlet Tendencias reports that there are now 1,000 Salvadoran soldiers in Haiti.)

But these soon-to-be 1,100-odd Salvadoran troops are not deployed as part of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), launched in September 2025, which is current Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s enlarged and overhauled version of Blinken’s MSS. The Salvadorans sent this past week are commanded unilaterally by Bukele, an egregious departure from his Mar. 10, 2024 tweet (need “a UNSC resolution”) and a flagrant violation of the UN Charter.

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28, 2026 — The American Immigration Council, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), and researcher Meghan Conley filed a lawsuit today seeking information about what ICE is telling local police and sheriffs about sharing immigration enforcement records with the public.

The lawsuit, filed in Tennessee, seeks details of ICE’s instructions to state and local law enforcement agencies about whether to release records requested under state laws. The requested records would shed light on what ICE tells state police and other local law enforcement to do when they receive public record requests regarding their collaboration with ICE.

According to the lawsuit, ICE has told local police and sheriffs they need to check with federal officials before sharing certain records with the public, even when state transparency laws say otherwise. This raises concerns that ICE may be making it harder for journalists, advocates , and the general public to find out how local police and sheriffs are working with federal immigration authorities.

In August, the plaintiffs in this lawsuit filed a FOIA request with ICE seeking records of the instructions ICE gave to state and local law enforcement. ICE did not produce the records sought.

🕯️Join Detention Watch Network, the End the ICE Age Campaign, and Disappeared in America in attending actions and vigils across the country to honor the lives lost at the hands of ICE and demand freedom for all, October 31-November 2.

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