"Guantánamo of the Pacific": Australian Asylum Seekers Wage Hunger Strike at...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: A massive hunger strike is underway at what some are calling "the Guantánamo Bay of the Pacific." The Manus Island detention center is paid for by the Australian government and run by...
View ArticleUndocumented Father Finds Sanctuary in Denver Church to Fight Deportation to...
AMY GOODMAN: We are broadcasting from Denver, Colorado, from Denver Open Media. When I flew in to Denver yesterday, on Thursday, I went directly to the First Unitarian Society Church to meet Arturo...
View ArticleComing Out of the Shadows: Meet José Espinoza, Undocumented Worker Impacted...
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to Oscar Hernandez and José Espinoza in Houston. Oscar, you were a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, that Marielena was just...
View ArticleRuling by Right-Wing Judge Delays Long-Awaited Reprieve for Millions of...
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama’s plan to shield as many as five million immigrants from deportation was supposed to begin taking its first applications this week. But late Monday night, U.S. District...
View Article17 Shots: Police Killing of Unarmed Mexican Farmworker in Washington State...
AMY GOODMAN: After our next segment, we’ll talk about Governor Scott Walker comparing unions to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. But first, this. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, for the second time in about two...
View ArticlePrivate Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Against...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with an update on a story Democracy Now! has followed closely: President Obama’s expansion of the controversial practice of detaining mothers and their children....
View ArticlePart 2: Migrant Women Appear Via Video from Detention Centers in Asylum Cases...
Watch our extended interview about detained migrant women seeking asylum in court via video stream, as they face harsh conditions in a private prison setting along with children as young as a few...
View ArticleTSA's Airport "Behavior Detection Program" Found to Target Undocumented...
AARON MATÉ: Last month, the website The Intercept revealed it’s quite easy to be deemed a suspected terrorist at a U.S. airport. A leaked checklist used by the Transportation Security Administration...
View ArticleImmigrant Mothers in Detention Launch Second Hunger Strike Despite Retaliation
After five months in detention with her two-year-old son, Kenia Galeano joined a hunger strike with about other 70 mothers to push for their release. Today she described how she and several others were...
View ArticleMass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Texas, where several cases of immigrant abuse have surfaced, both at the beginning of life and in death. The Texas Observer reports this week the state has been denying...
View ArticleCancer Patient Married to Undocumented Man Among 100 Women Who Marched 100...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: As Pope Francis begins his six-day U.S. trip, a group of 100 women, many of them undocumented, have arrived in Washington, D.C., after marching 100 miles from a detention center in York,...
View ArticleJournalist Peter Greste Calls on Australia to End Secrecy over Offshore...
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Peter Greste, Al Jazeera journalist, known around the world because he was one of three Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt. He was in prison for 400 days....
View ArticleNo Kids Behind Bars: For-Profit Texas Immigration Jails Challenged over Child...
AMY GOODMAN: Well, last week, a Texas judge temporarily halted the state’s efforts to license their family detention centers as child care facilities, putting their future in jeopardy. We’re also...
View ArticleThe End of Family Detention? PA Immigration Jail Could Be Forced to Stop...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to an update on immigrant children and their parents who are seeking asylum in the U.S., many of them fleeing some of the most violent countries in the Western Hemisphere—El...
View ArticleLocked Up & Neglected After Fleeing Danger, Immigrant Women Detainees Launch...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: A hunger strike by immigrant women at a Texas detention center has reportedly spread. Last week, 27 women confined at the for-profit T. Don Hutto facility in Austin began refusing meals,...
View Article"A Devastating Decision": No Charges for Border Guards in Beating, Taser...
AMY GOODMAN: The Department of Justice has announced no border agents will be prosecuted for their role in the killing of a Mexican immigrant near San Diego, even though eyewitness video showed him...
View ArticleExclusive: Detained Honduran Woman, Moved to Mostly Male TX Prison After...
At the end of October, 27 immigrant women detainees began a hunger strike, demanding an end to mistreatment and their immediate release from the T. Don Hutto detention center near Austin, Texas. Most...
View ArticleAn Act of Terror: Deporting a Kurdish Activist Back to Turkey
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In the quaint tourist town of Harbert, Michigan sits an unassuming restaurant that has been owned and operated by a man who is considered a pillar of his community....
View ArticleThe Stateless and the State of the Union
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night before an almost-full joint session of Congress. Almost full because of the empty...
View ArticleExclusive: Sickened by Gangrene in Utah Immigration Jail, Guatemalan Father...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to the case of an undocumented immigrant who faces deportation after, he says, he suffered a gangrene infection of his scrotum while held in a filthy cell in a detention...
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