From Alternet: "I was recently stopped by Homeland Security as I was returning from a trip to Syria. What I saw in the hours that followed shocked and disturbed me."

The New York Times reports today on the cruel death of yet another immigrant in the charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Because the same week U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched the Scheduled Departure Program inviting immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation (only three have), U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers reportedly were detaining U.S. children at the airport to lure and arrest undocumented family members who came to pick them up.

The aftermath of the immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, continues to keep immigrant workers rights in the national spotlight.

"If our government is serious about fixing our country's broken immigration system, it must move beyond its single-minded focus on creating new deportation policies," said National Immigrant Justice Center Director Mary Meg McCarthy. "By creating new programs like Operation Scheduled Departure, ICE does nothing more than separate families, harm communities, erode due process, and in the worst cases, subject men, women, and children to danger in their native countries."

Two disturbing news articles from the last few days have highlighted little-known deportation tactics that deprive immigrants a chance to see a judge before they are deported.

The march in Postville was an amazing experience. More than 1,000 Midwesterners and other Americans from around the country from a wide range of religious, ethnic, and economic backgrounds came together in this small Iowa town to speak out against bad deportation-only enforcement policies that have destroyed families.

A new video on the immigrant detention system from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) passed the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 303-115, practically ensuring that the statutory bar to entry into the United States for HIV-positive immigrants and foreign visitors will be lifted.

Anyone who thinks that reasonable legal means exist for workers to migrate from Mexico to the United States and that migrants should just "do it the right way" need to read the story of Kentucky native Heather Suarez.

A new initiative called the National Immigrant Bond Fund has been created to collect donations and work with community groups to help men and women detained in ICE raids pay bond so they can pursue their case outside of jail.

A Tennessee woman who was stopped for a traffic violation then turned over to federal immigration agents under the town's 287(g) agreement was forced to wear hand and ankle cuffs during labor and was then separated from her infant shortly after she gave birth.

The U.S. Senate's vote today in favor of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief marked an important step toward lifting a 21-year bar to entry for foreigners who are HIV-positive.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition has put out a call for assistance to raise money to cover funeral costs for the family of Valery Joseph, the latest person to die in immigrant detention.

After seeing the due process and human rights violations that took place following last month's immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, one American made a risky career decision and another put retirement on hold to stand up for migrants.

From the American News Project: "Immigration arrests from worksite raids have increased tenfold in the last five years. As politicians on both sides of the aisle grapple with the issue, families are caught in the middle."