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New bill by @gillibrandny would expand access to legal counsel for immigrants facing deportation. This is long overdue + the principles within it should be enacted by any means, legislative or administrative.
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My friend @Houleyeet23, Pres of @MauritanianFor, says: "decisions made in immigration court are often life-or-death matters. And where is your public defender? I know many people who fled Mauritania with nothing, because they were running for their lives...
...In US, they tried to explain what happened, but didn’t know language, much less how to present ;egal case. My heart hurts for ppl who lost their cases + have been deported, simply bc they didn’t have a lawyer. We need a ‘public defender’ program in the U.S. Immigration Court."
164 groups: "Given extreme nature of human rights crisis in Mauritania, immediate designation of #TPS or DED is warranted + necessary to safeguard vulnerable ppl in US." @JoeBiden @AliMayorkas @DHSgov @USCIS @SenSherrodBrown @senrobportman
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This effort from @civilrightsorg @cliniclegal @MauritanianFor is so important, follows years documenting + exposing abuses from @Biram2019 @bektange @weddady @AmnestyWARO @nelliepeyton @UNHumanright @MiddleEastEye @UNPOintl @amnesty @MauritanianFor @_IRAUSA_ @iraMauritanie 
.@USTradeRep45 put sanctions on Mauritania over human rights abuses. Yet, 45 deported so many Black Mauritanians to a country that tried to kill them, leaving them there with no documents + subject to arrest, torture, abuse. Many fled again to other countries for safety.
"My husband and children’s father, Brígido Acosta-Luis, is one of the 2m ppl deported by the Obama-Biden admin. As Vice President Joe Biden prepares to ask us for our vote this Nov., I want to know what he would do to bring my husband home." #ReuniteUS
"A lot has been said about President Trump’s heartless deportations and family separations. It’s true. And deportation is an extreme consequence for a paperwork problem. But deportations didn’t start with President Trump. My family is proof of that." #ReuniteUS
"A year after Brigido’s deportation, Pres Obama changed his immigration policies so that ppl like my husband, w/US citizen children, were no longer considered 'priorities' for deportation. But the change came too late for us, and to this day, we remain separated ..." #ReuniteUS
