immigration Archives – Deceleration

Deceleration Video: ICE, Torture, & the Deportation-Industrial Complex

By Greg Harman ● Deceleration Video ● December 16, 2025

A Deceleration Update on Lawsuits and Legal Orders related to ICE, Homeland Security, and a rising human rights catastrophe in the United States.

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ACLU: ICE Detainees at Camp East Montana Beaten, Threatened with Illegal Removal to Mexico

By Cindy Ramirez & El Paso Matters ● Human Rights ● December 16, 2025

Camp East Montana, a massive tent ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, opened in August and now holds about 2,700 detainees.

Children Among ‘More Than 140’ Detained by ICE & FBI in Multi-Agency Sweep in San Antonio

By Greg Harman ● Human Rights ● November 21, 2025

Few details have been shared by federal agencies—including who was detained or where they are being held—but the first charges brought have nothing to do with trafficking or gangs.

PODCAST: Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

By Marisol Cortez ● Human Rights ● September 20, 2025

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

By Deceleration Staff ● Arts and Letters ● August 29, 2025

Deceleration’s first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors.

Arturo Madrid: On the Responsibility of Latin@ Academics, Artists, and Cultural Workers

By Arturo Madrid ● Community Voices ● July 16, 2025

A preeminent Latino scholar issues an urgent call to his colleagues—and to all of us—to get educated on our rights, vocally assert them, share information about threats as they emerge, and stand in active solidarity with all targeted groups.