Immigrant Workers: Stuck between antiquated policy and militarized brutality

Two legal service volunteers argue millions of hardworking immigrants have filled out paperwork yet they remain without protections.

By: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael Messner

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: August 24, 2026

Words: 653

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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ICE rolled into Santa Fe last week, conducting “a spree of immigrant arrests,” seizing hardworking fathers and mothers at a healthcare clinic and elsewhere. We do not know how many people were arrested, but we assume that they are like the incarcerated men we meet when we visit Torrance County Detention Facility as legal service volunteers. There, the vast majority of ICE prisoners we speak with are hardworking family men who …

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