A family of U.S. citizens detained by ICE in Milwaukee for speaking Spanish.

A U.S. citizen military veteran in New Jersey arrested in an ICE raid on a fish market.

American Indians of the Navajo nation in Arizona — U.S. citizens — detained in ICE interrogation rooms.

You say you’re American? Be ready to prove it with your papers.

Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security announced the forthcoming creation of a national registry of non-citizens, threatening fines, criminal charges and jail time for anyone who fails to comply. The roots of America’s new national registration scheme lie in a World War II-era law originally enacted in 1940 as the Alien Registration Act. It created an expansive federal policing bureaucracy to collect and warehouse personally identifiable information of more than 4.9 million people and was........

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