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“The abuse we are witnessing, especially right now against black immigrants, isn’t new, but it is escalating," said @ChristinaFialho, executive director of @MigrantFreedom.
#FreeBlackMigrants
#FreeCameroonians
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…
“The abuse we are witnessing, especially right now against black immigrants, isn’t new, but it is escalating," said @ChristinaFialho, executive director of @MigrantFreedom.
#FreeBlackMigrants
#FreeCameroonians
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o…
"...we began to receive calls on our hotline from Cameroonian and Congolese immigrants detained in [ICE] prisons across the country. And they were being subjected to threats of deportation, often accompanied by physical abuse.”
#FreeBlackMigrants
#FreeCameroonians
#FreeThemAll
#FreeBlackMigrants
#FreeCameroonians
#FreeThemAll
Then ICE began transferring these individuals from immigrant prisons around the country into the immigrant prison in Pine Prairie, Louisiana where they were forced to sign fraudulent paperwork to facilitate their deportation to Cameroon and tortured until they acquiesced.
If you were shocked by this video, if you shared it, if you learned something from it, even if you're only watching it for the first time now...
🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP 🚨
ICE is trying to deport 100+ African immigrants TONIGHT.
Sharing these injustices is not enough.
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🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP 🚨
ICE is trying to deport 100+ African immigrants TONIGHT.
Sharing these injustices is not enough.
🧵👇🏾
After using torture to force many of them to sign their own deportation orders, ICE is using fake documents to conduct a mass deportation of Black immigrants in the next 24 hours.
Most of them Cameroonian.
freedomforimmigrants.org/news/2020/10/8…
Most of them Cameroonian.
freedomforimmigrants.org/news/2020/10/8…
In case you didn't know: The violent conflict that erupted in the northwest & southwest regions of Cameroon in 2016 has killed thousands and displaced more than 679,000 so far.
Returning these folks in mass is a death sentence. Many will be killed by their own gov't upon return.
Returning these folks in mass is a death sentence. Many will be killed by their own gov't upon return.
