Rebuild The Dream

When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours. “We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says. Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Great news coming from the Biden administration! These individuals have been working or studying in their home communities with unprecedentedly low recidivism rates. They have done their time, and it's time for their sentences to end.

The US allows children — especially Black children — to grow up in poverty. With demographic data, we can see more clearly how many of those kids grow up to fill state prisons.