Commentary | It’s time to declare independence from ICE prisons

Commentary | It’s time to declare independence from ICE prisons

Independence Day occurred as this imperfect union, publicly declared on July 4, 1776, faces an existential threat. President Donald Trump daily amasses more authoritarian control, unchecked by the Republican majority in Congress and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. Mass arrests and deportations of immigrants accelerate, sweeping up alongside them many legal residents and even U.S. citizens. Trump is now considering “denaturalizing…