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September 9, 2025

Add your comment in opposition of the McCook detention center

This Friday, Sept. 12, the Nebraska Legislature’s Urban Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on Gov. Jim Pillen’s plan to convert the McCook Work...

September 4, 2025

What the McCook ICE Facility means for Nebraska

Last month, Nebraska leaders announced plans to convert the McCook Work Ethic Camp — once designed for rehabilitation — into a new immigration detention center....

August 21, 2025

This won’t make us safer. It will only tear us apart.

This week, Nebraska leaders said they’re turning a work ethic camp in McCook — about an hour drive south of North Platte — into an...

August 15, 2025

An important win: Two of our neighbors are home.

Yesterday at 4 a.m., two mothers awoke in a detention center in North Platte to travel to a courtroom in Omaha. They had already been...

July 31, 2025

Inside the strategy to deny immigrants their rights

More than two dozen of the workers detained in the Glenn Valley Foods raid in June remain in detention, even after immigration judges have determined...

July 29, 2025

Social work after the Glenn Valley Foods raid

After the raid of Glenn Valley Foods in June, we didn’t know what the ripple effect would be for families of loved ones who were...

July 22, 2025

Voices from the front: Q&A with Stacy Marquez

Stacy Marquez coordinates the Nebraska Immigration Legal Assistance Hotline. Everyday, she and her team are often the first people immigrants talk to when they’re scared...

July 18, 2025

DHS declares some immigrants ineligible for bond

Families and communities raised the money for bond, but many of the workers swept up in the Glenn Valley raid are still being held in...

July 10, 2025

The federal budget bill and its consequences

Last week, Congress passed a sweeping federal budget bill but, for immigrant families, it amounts to a blank check for more jails and enforcement agents....

July 7, 2025

One worker home, dozens more waiting

On June 10, nearly 80 of our neighbors were rounded up in a massive immigration raid at Glenn Valley Foods in South Omaha. Many of...

July 3, 2025

Update: Birthright citizenship

The promise of birthright citizenship has protected millions of families for nearly 160 years. Last week, the Supreme Court made it easier to attack that...

June 26, 2025

June 10 raid was a wake-up call for immigration reform

Nebraska statewide partners across sectors call on Congress for overhaul....