The architecture of automated license plate readers turns local cameras into a far-reaching surveillance network that can be accessed by agencies that never purchased the devices.
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A local historian combed through a 1967 collection of police incident reports from Philadelphia’s airport police that included detentions of soldiers and veterans.
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
Grassroots activists and marginalized communities are ‘flipping the script’ on surveillance by watching, documenting and gathering information about powerful institutions such as ICE from below.
Limits on healthcare for undocumented women are reshaping pregnancy and family health.
A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
Latinos were the first Coloradans, and yet they are portrayed by the administration as intruders in an era of immigration enforcement.
Pennsylvania’s patchwork of ICE detention centers makes it difficult to track loved ones.
Scholars have defined the elements of what qualifies as a concentration camp system. Based on those, ICE detention facilities meet the definition of concentration camps.
The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.
A historian explores how religious congregations, activists and city officials have supported undocumented immigrants in Philadelphia over the past 40 years.
At least 15 Florida state universities and colleges have signed agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that authorize campus police to carry out immigration enforcement.
A new DHS policy could result in the detention of thousands of people who have lawful immigration status.
For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance.
This year marks the 150th birthday of Colorado and is a chance to examine the state’s history.
It’s difficult to measure what is lost when an opinion is never voiced and impossible to catalogue the arguments that never form because a speaker calculates the risk and decides silence is safer.
Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.
As immigration enforcement crackdowns expand across the US, communities can mobilize to lessen the public health impacts.
Daniel Cueto-Villalobos speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the origins of people in Minneapolis coming together to protect their neighbours.
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Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin is a Friend of The Conversation.Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University
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