The First Rule of ICE Club? Don't Talk About ICE Club. And Treat All Migrants as Criminals. • Kansas Reflector

The first rule of ICE Club? Don't talk about ICE Club. And treat all migrants as criminals. • Kansas Reflector

A bird sits on a security fence at the Chase County Detention Facility in 2021. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector)Jails are hard places made necessary by people like Ernest Hoefgen. Few are likely to remember Hoefgen now, but back in September 1943 the 31-year-old escaped from the city jail at Cottonwood Falls. He’d been picked up for assault, according to newspaper accounts, and was using an alias. In reality, Hoefgen was an escapee from the Texas st…

The IRS-ICE Deal Threatens All Workers  ✦ OnLabor

Since early February, the Trump Administration has been pressuring the Internal Revenue Service to support the deportation of undocumented immigrants. In April, court filings showed that the I.R.S. ultimately capitulated, signing a “Memorandum of Understanding” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Although the agreement was heavily redacted, an anonymous ICE official told Politico Pro that the “[I.R.S.’s] data would likely improve […]

The first rule of ICE Club? Don’t talk about ICE Club.

A bird sits on a security fence at the Chase County Detention Facility in 2021. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector) Jails are hard places made necessary by people like Ernest Hoefgen. Few are likely to remember Hoefgen now, but back in September 1943 the 31-year-old escaped from the city jail at Cottonwood Falls. He’d been picked up for assault, according to newspaper accounts, and was using an alias. In reality, Hoefgen was an escapee from the Texas s…