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Naturalize Or Terrorize? ICE Is a Racket – And It’s Costing Too Much

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 17, 2025

by Rivera Sun After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention…

Opinion

How Ann Arbor Can Strengthen Protections for Undocumented Residents

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 15, 2025

by Annie Lively In the first 50 days of the new federal administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made nearly 33,000 arrests nationwide. While Ann Arbor has implemented some protective measures for undocumented…

County Government

Michigan ACLU Sues ICE to Obtain Records for Immigrants Being Held in Michigan Jails

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 23, 2025

by Ann Mullen The ACLU of Michigan and the national ACLU filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 22 to force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Michigan county jails it contracts with, to release records about detained…

Letter to the Editor

The Election of Donald Trump Has Made Me a Stranger in My Own Country

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Nov 11, 2024

by Lori Wojtowicz Like so many, last Tuesday night brought little sleep, only a descent into despair. For me, it was not so much about political party or electing the first woman or the first black woman. It was about decency and the…

Econ

Ann Arbor’s Michigan Economic Center Study Reveals Anti-Immigrant Policies Could Derail Michigan’s Economy

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 13, 2017 0

by Akaash Kolluri The Michigan Economic Center (MEC) released a new study yesterday titled "Michigan: We Are All Migrants Here," that details the history of immigrant contributions to Michigan’s economy, and the critical contributions…