“Forever Followed by ICE”
Long after they are deported, people are subjected to the Everywhere Border of surveillance, stigma, and economic hardship.
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Can the Department of Homeland Security be Reformed?
Border legislators, Veronica Escobar and Raul Grijalva, take on the behemoth.
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