After over a year in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Rodney Taylor has been released from the Stewart Detention Center in Stewart County. The Georgia barber’s family shared the news of his release on social media over the weekend. “Thank you to everyone who protested, called, emailed, shared and donated, your collective efforts made […]
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Posted inIncarceration, Politics & Policy
With Police Help, There Are 41 Arrests of Immigrants Per Day in Georgia
There were 41 arrests of immigrants per day in Georgia in February. The state currently ranks fifth in number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests nationwide. This 85% year-over-year increase in daily arrests represent the latest figures on immigrant detentions according to the Deportation Data Project. Aiding the rise is the number of sheriff’s […]
Posted inHigher Education, Policing
Emory Students Protest AI Surveillance on Campus
Emory University students, faculty, and workers gathered on campus Friday waving signs, beating drums, and chanting to pressure the institution’s administration to end AI-powered surveillance on its campus. Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based surveillance tech company with tens of thousands of its cameras located in cities across the country, is at the heart of the Emory […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
ICE Deportation of Double-Amputee Rodney Taylor to Liberia Could Be Imminent
Rodney Taylor, the husband, father, and double-amputee who has been held by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Stewart Detention Center since January 2025, may be deported any day now, according to his wife, Mildred Danis-Taylor. Immigration advocates who work with Danis-Taylor on the “Free Rodney Taylor” campaign learned last week that ICE had obtained […]
Posted inCapital B Atlanta, Courts, Criminal Justice
‘My Husband Crawls to Shower’: Rodney Taylor’s Wife on His ‘Horrific’ ICE Detention
As Georgia ranks as one of the top states for Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests, immigrants, families, and advocates on the front lines share their fears and the fight for freedom in a series of interviews. January marked one year since Mildred Danis-Taylor had seen her husband, Rodney Taylor. “We speak every day if he […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
New ICE Detention Center Sparks Racial Profiling Fears in Gwinnett County
News of plans to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Oakwood is amplifying fears about racial profiling among some people of color in nearby Gwinnett County. That includes Mulberry, Georgia, resident Tracey Fisher. Fisher serves as district director for the Georgia Federation of Democratic Women. She was one of about 15 people […]
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Atlanta’s Black Veterans See a Warning in the Killing of VA Nurse Alex Pretti
When Alex Pretti was killed by U.S. Border Patrol agents last week, the shock rippled far beyond Minneapolis, where the Veterans Affairs nurse worked. Black veterans and nurses in Atlanta say his death has forced a reckoning, not only with the federal government’s expanding use of force, but with what it means to serve a […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics & Policy
College Park Leaders Seek Answers as ICE Activity Raises Community Fears
While much of the country has eyes trained on the unrest in Minneapolis after the shooting death of Alex Pretti by U.S. Border Patrol agents, some in metro Atlanta are concerned as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders appear to be expanding operations in College Park. Elected officials in the southwest Atlanta suburb say the […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Atlanta Lawyers Work to Get Unlawfully Deported Black Immigrants Returned to the U.S.
The Trump administration’s mass deportation plan continues to cause anxiety throughout Atlanta’s Black immigrant community — even among those who have legal status. “The fear is real,” said Nnamdi Ihenacho, founder of the Atlanta-based nonprofit African Immigrant Collective. “Even people who have their papers are still worried about, ‘can my citizenship be revoked?’ ‘Can my […]
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ICE Raid in Georgia Results in 475 Arrests in Support of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Hundreds of workers were arrested by masked agents Thursday at a massive Hyundai electric vehicle manufacturing plant in southeastern Georgia about 40 minutes west of Savannah. “This in fact was the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations,” Steve Schrank, special-agent-in-charge of HSI for Georgia and Alabama told the media […]