In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
— Read on theconversation.com/are-sanctuary-policing-policies-no-more-than-a-public-relations-facade-269245

I’m not sure if it’s amnesia or just wishful thinking, but it seems like the well-documented terror tactics of municipal, county, and state police have just disappeared from people’s memory. Chicago and Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE has been extraordinary and well-organized, have histories of police violence that rival anything ICE agents are doing. Indeed, it is precisely the long experience of organizing against this violence that prepared activists in these cities to resist ICE.
— Read on www.bostonreview.net/articles/renee-goods-murder-and-other-acts-of-terror/

Should people involved with the Palestine solidarity movement in North America, traditionally leftist in orientation, seek alliances with the political right?
— Read on stevesalaita.com/palestine-solidarity-in-the-age-of-reaction/

This reason is simple and can be traced to the elements of administrative detention itself: the absence of human rights safeguards and normal legal guarantees such as due process, habeas corpus, fair trial, confidential legal counsel, and judicial review; vague and confusing definitions, standards, and procedures; inadequate adversarial procedural oversight; excessive Executive Branch power stemming from prolonged emergencies; and the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency, or other secret, thus unaccountable, Executive Branch agencies.
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/30/detention-and-torture/