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Some wonderful news 🗞 from over the weekend: 1 of 3 family detention centers has been emptied. 🎉
There’s still a long way to go to permanently shut them down in order to truly #EndFamilyDetention.
But jeez, #GoodNews feel nice đź’•
There’s still a long way to go to permanently shut them down in order to truly #EndFamilyDetention.
But jeez, #GoodNews feel nice đź’•
HUGE shoutout to @ShutDownBerks, @aldea_pjc and ALL the rockstars who worked night & day to #FreeThemAll.
We hope Dilley & Karnes follow in Berks’ footsteps and we finally put an end to the incarceration of migrant families.
We hope Dilley & Karnes follow in Berks’ footsteps and we finally put an end to the incarceration of migrant families.
The Biden Administration has the power to #EndFamilyDetention TODAY.
We don’t have to live in fear of this practice continuing or ever coming back. @POTUS has the ability to end families’ nightmares once & for all!
raicestexas.org/ask-president-…
We don’t have to live in fear of this practice continuing or ever coming back. @POTUS has the ability to end families’ nightmares once & for all!
raicestexas.org/ask-president-…
What's happening in Texas is criminal:
Food shortages. Unsafe drinking water. Impassable roads. Flooded homes. A humanitarian crisis like we’ve not seen before.
This is what's going on in immigrant detention centers in the midst of the #TexasFreeze & what you can do to help🧵👇🏾
Food shortages. Unsafe drinking water. Impassable roads. Flooded homes. A humanitarian crisis like we’ve not seen before.
This is what's going on in immigrant detention centers in the midst of the #TexasFreeze & what you can do to help🧵👇🏾
We have 10 offices across the state and most of our 250+ staff members have been without power for much of the week.
Luckily, we've now been able to communicate with many of our clients & community members both in and out of detention centers.
But things are looking bleak.
Luckily, we've now been able to communicate with many of our clients & community members both in and out of detention centers.
But things are looking bleak.
Immigrants in detention centers are freezing cold and not able to get the word out about what’s going on inside these prisons.
Take Ubaldo's situation for example 👇🏾
Take Ubaldo's situation for example 👇🏾
Deportations are continuing at an alarming rate, especially of Black immigrants.
In the coming days, ICE is planning to deport around *1,800 people* to Haiti, Cameroon, Angola, Honduras, and elsewhere.
4 urgent actions you can take ⬇️
mailchi.mp/interfaithimmi… #BlackLivesMatter
In the coming days, ICE is planning to deport around *1,800 people* to Haiti, Cameroon, Angola, Honduras, and elsewhere.
4 urgent actions you can take ⬇️
mailchi.mp/interfaithimmi… #BlackLivesMatter
✊🏾 Uplift on social media! Use this toolkit from @fams2gether and @HaitianBridge to highlight the experiences of Black immigrants and pressure the Biden Administration to immediately suspend deportation flights.
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
đź“Ł Join a virtual press conference tomorrow (2/3) at 12 pm ET.
Hear from impacted community members, immigrant families, and advocates as they call for an end to family detention and deportation + to reunite families: facebook.com/events/3431830… #EndFamilyDetention #DefendFamilies
Hear from impacted community members, immigrant families, and advocates as they call for an end to family detention and deportation + to reunite families: facebook.com/events/3431830… #EndFamilyDetention #DefendFamilies
“Not One More is not an enforcement strategy.” - Cecilia Muñoz, Washington, D.C. Summer 2015, upon being silently shamed by immigration lawyers holding #EndFamilyDetention signs while she gave the keynote at the @AILANational annual conference.
We have not forgotten, @cecmunoz
We have not forgotten, @cecmunoz
She couldn’t even finish her prepared remarks. She couldn’t stay and look all of us in the eye. She knew.
She knew about the reports of children losing weight in the new for-profit baby jails she and her colleagues advised 44 to create.
She knew of the suicide attempts.
She knew about the reports of children losing weight in the new for-profit baby jails she and her colleagues advised 44 to create.
She knew of the suicide attempts.
This article had already been published.
She knew.
They all did.
We are not going back to the reality they created.
nytimes.com/2015/02/08/mag…
She knew.
They all did.
We are not going back to the reality they created.
nytimes.com/2015/02/08/mag…
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse: Private prison companies including @CoreCivic & @GEOGroup have decided to form an advocacy group designed to cover up the family separations, medical negligence & deaths we've all been a witness to.
nytimes.com/aponline/2019/…
nytimes.com/aponline/2019/…
This news hits hard.
But it also means we're doing our job right. We're getting through and it's scaring them. @theday1alliance, guess we'll be seeing your clients in court. #ShutDownKarnes #EndFamilyDetention
But it also means we're doing our job right. We're getting through and it's scaring them. @theday1alliance, guess we'll be seeing your clients in court. #ShutDownKarnes #EndFamilyDetention
P.S. @AlexandraWilkes: You donated to us but considering you now defend private prisons that deny medical care to women, allow family separations to occur in their facilities, & feed our country’s addiction to imprisoning people of color, we’d be eager to give your money back.
When @DHSMcAleenan tries to sell an Immigration Babyjail as a “Gold Standard” think about what that means? It means indefinitely jailing children, for profit. It means traumatizing kids who are already traumatized. It means kids do not have freedom to play, to think, or to grow.
We watched today as the Secretary described the detention of children as being “campus-like.” Its not. Its prison-like. You are not free to leave. You have no privacy. The purpose of detaining kids is to isolate them from people who love them and the people who can help them.
In babyjail, your jailers are the parents, parents are the babysitters. Parents do not decide when or what kids eat. Your parents can not help you when you are sick or make any parental decisions. Kids become defiant, angry, depressed, helpless. Kids play, when guards let them.
Today, we're joining our colleagues at @ShutDownBerks, who have spent years fighting for the human rights of immigrant families. It's time for @GovernorTomWolf to do the same. Shut it down, Governor. #EndFamilyDetention keystoneprogress.org/blog/governor-…
@ShutDownBerks @GovernorTomWolf Here's a @WHYYNews piece from July that outlines clearly the irreparable harm being inflicted on children in our own state: whyy.org/articles/warni…
@ShutDownBerks @GovernorTomWolf @WHYYNews “Berks has allowed chronic health problems to go untreated in the facility,” it said. “Further, the mental health of the detained families is put in danger because its mental health care professionals do not speak Spanish.” Unacceptable, @GovernorTomWolf. Do something about it.
Individual Action In Support Of The Nationwide Mother's Day Rally
Make #MothersDay a day of action—a day we stand in solidarity with children and parents on the border.
Make #MothersDay a day of action—a day we stand in solidarity with children and parents on the border.
Here are a few ideas from MomsRising.org and other partners who will be rallying around the nation calling to #EndFamilyDetention
On January 21, 2017, we organized the largest single-day protest in US history. We came together as women, femmes, and allies to speak out, and we set the stage for the resistance movement that continues today.
YOU did this. YOU made this happen.
📸 @TheAlexArbuckle
YOU did this. YOU made this happen.
📸 @TheAlexArbuckle
On January 28, 2017—just one week after the first Women’s March—we flooded airports nationwide to protest the Muslim Ban.
Women who marched together went to airports together. People who met at women’s marches came together again to say #NoMuslimBan.
📸 Stephanie Keith | Getty
Women who marched together went to airports together. People who met at women’s marches came together again to say #NoMuslimBan.
📸 Stephanie Keith | Getty
On January 31, 2017—just 10 days after the March—we went back to DC to voice our outrage of the nomination of Jeff Sessions. We continued our call to #StopSessions for over one year after that.
📸 Lauryn Gutierrez | Rewire
📸 Lauryn Gutierrez | Rewire
“SHE CAME TO THE US BECAUSE
the gang told her if she didn’t pay the extortion money they demanded, they would kill her and her young daughter, and make her watch them kill her daughter
THIS WAS NOT THE WORST STORY.”
A harrowing
♦️Project Corazon♦️
tale from #L4GG’s @mgremb:
the gang told her if she didn’t pay the extortion money they demanded, they would kill her and her young daughter, and make her watch them kill her daughter
THIS WAS NOT THE WORST STORY.”
A harrowing
♦️Project Corazon♦️
tale from #L4GG’s @mgremb:
Even worse was a mom who came to the US with her daughter “Celia” (not her real name). Her other daughter had been kidnapped by the gang a month ago and never seen again. The gang said Celia was “next,” and threatened to kill the rest of the family, so they left.
It’s taken me a while to write about the time I spent with the Dilley Pro Bono Project at the immigrant family detention center. It’s difficult to put into words the jarring mix of hopefulness and fear, the moms waiting for news and the laughter, crying and sniffles of children.
Happening now - Senate Dirksen Office Building: Advocates and community members arriving to protest hearings on admin efforts to jail more migrant families and undermine the Flores settlement. #EndFamilyDetention #EndDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether immigrantjustice.org/press-releases…
Advocates are bearing witness to 12,800 - the # of children in gov't custody, skyrocketing not because more children are coming but because of dragnet immigration enforcement causing fear that coming forward to care for a child will lead to deportation. nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/…
That fear is compounded by a new info-sharing policy between HHS and ICE that undermines HHS's child welfare mission and turns it into an enforcement agent for ICE. In a just world, today's hearing would be all about calling for its rescission. Read more: immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/una…
1/ Just spent a week working pro bono with CARA at DETENTION center in #Dilley Texas (oddly renamed "residential" center) to prepare the #SUPERWOMEN being held there prepare for their credible fear interviews. They told me ghastly stories of persecution suffered in lawless
2/ countries at the hands of gangs who terrorize and extort them, then beat, rape and threaten to kill them and their children if they dare go to the police or say "enough," AND/OR countries with such weak laws, corrupt police, and/or corrupt government officials that are
3/ effectively lawless when it comes to protecting women from violent husbands who treat them like property by repeatedly raping them, telling them they are worthless SIMPLY because they are WOMEN, restricting their freedom to work, express political views, attend church, see
Happening now: Long line waiting to get into the Senate Judiciary hearing on family separation. Hundreds of families remain separated and accountability is overdue. I will tweet out news from the hearing on this thread. #familiesbelongtogether
.@ChuckGrassley has opened the hearing. The room is overflowing, with many advocate mamas here with their children in their arms, protesting the rights abuses that continue to unfold.
.@SenFeinstein is delivering her opening with a focus on the appalling lack of government transparency regarding the family separation crisis. Months into the crisis she reminds us that we still don't know the total number of children separated from their parents....
Why did family separation happen? FOLLOW THE MONEY. Then #EndFamilySeparation #EndFamilyDetention and #AbolishICE
Trump administration appointees went from profiting off the deportation machine to working directly in it interc.pt/2zbr5uV by @lhfang
Trump administration appointees went from profiting off the deportation machine to working directly in it interc.pt/2zbr5uV by @lhfang
Dan Ragsdale.
David Venturella.
Heartfelt apologies for the disappointment felt by my 1000s of new MAGA followers who read the thread I wrote about my meeting with Pres. Obama that’s bounced around 19M times (literally). But maybe you’ll be interested in what @AlexNowrasteh and @mkolken have to say. #FF
It has been amazing to watch a couple thousand people tweet some version of “where was your outrage when Obama did it?!” at liberals and fake news outlets, while simultaneously showing zero outrage now, and doing nothing to stop it. If that’s the takeaway, idk, Man. IDK.
There used to be three or four main idealogical tent poles to conservatism and the Republican Party: (1) libertarianism/limited government “less government = more freedom; (2) “Moral Majority”/WWJD/“values voters” (3) Fiscal conservatives (4) strong national defense. Not anymore.
Some Postcarders shared their photos of #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch from across the USA!
We do more than Postcard.
We March.
We VOTE.
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#EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
We do more than Postcard.
We March.
We VOTE.
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#EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
Ellensburg, WA
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
Greenville, South Carolina
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether
We’re collectively raising our voices against Trump’s morally bankrupt policies and rhetoric toward immigrants. Today we're rallying in streets across the country to say: #FamiliesBelongTogether. #EndFamilyDetention #TheMarchContinues
familiesbelongtogether.org
familiesbelongtogether.org
Ripping children away from their parents and locking them in cages, and stripping immigrants of due process rights offends the Constitution and our fundamental principles of justice, fairness and equality. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether splcenter.org/news/2018/06/2…
We're here in Montgomery, Alabama rallying to say that #FamiliesBelongTogther & to call to #EndFamilyDetention
At the bus stop where Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alabamians protest an injustice of our time - the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy separating families all across America. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Separating families is wrong and today in Alabama, #TheMarchContinues for immigration reform. #EndFamilyDetention
Enough of this. Enough. #ReleaseRepresentReunify Today. Not tomorrow. Today. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogther #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #freeourfuture #Basta #NotOneMore #NiUnoMas
Release: Because for-profit or military imprisonment is unnecessary and illegal
Represent: Because represented children and families have a 96% court appearance rate and are 400% more likely to win their claims for relief
Reunify: Because we can do it faster than the government
Represent: Because represented children and families have a 96% court appearance rate and are 400% more likely to win their claims for relief
Reunify: Because we can do it faster than the government
@RAICESTEXAS @MigrantFreedom @TXCivilRights @ACLU @ProPublica @ThinkLawLab @abogadatejana @AlOtroLado_Org @aldea_pjc @immcouncil Are ready, willing, and able to put these families back together much more efficiently than the government ever could.
Friends, the family separation + family detention ramp up is best explained by the Overton window concept. Make things really really horrible and then the just horrible will seem OK. #EndFamilyDetention
The #SingleStagingArea explicitly includes the idea of detaining the families together. Please listen to the advocates and communities who have been fighting to keep families together AND reunifying families for years. We’re not new at this.
If you are new to these issues, please pay attention to who is pushing the ideas. People who have an intimate knowledge of the history and booby traps of the system or people who just noticed?
Letters by immigrant parents telling a judge in their own words what it’s like being separated from their kids.
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#EndFamilyDetention and #KeepFamliesTogether
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#EndFamilyDetention and #KeepFamliesTogether
“Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture. I am not able to sleep. I desperately want to be with her.” - APF from Honduras who is being held in TX and was separated from his 12 year old daughter
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Full letter here: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4551…
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Full letter here: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4551…
“I wake up from my sleep crying because I remember he was taken from me.” - EF from Guatemala, who is being held in TX and believes her son is in NY.
#FamilesBelongTogether
#EndFamilyDetention
Translated declaration here:
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4551…
#FamilesBelongTogether
#EndFamilyDetention
Translated declaration here:
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4551…
Pres. Trump’s executive order still plans to criminalize families — including children. It’s not enough to #EndFamilySeparation or #KeepFamiliesTogehter. We need to #EndFamilyDetention. You can help us fight back.
We’re fighting back on the legal front. Our #SoutheastImmigrantFreedomInitiative provides pro bono legal representation to immigrants detained in the Southeast. You can volunteer.
splcenter.org/sifi
splcenter.org/sifi
We’re fighting back by showing up and speaking out. We are rallying for immigrants’ rights here in Montgomery, Alabama — the state where AG Jeff Sessions began his career. facebook.com/events/2370502…
President Trump just signed an EO announcing the “end” to family separation. Make no mistake this “solution” is actually to jail families indefinitely. @PWolgin breaks down why family jails are not the solution to #KeepFamiliesTogether #EndFamilyDetention americanprogress.org/?p=452571
Republicans in Congress have proposed a number of bills that would equally incarcerate children, indefinitely, alongside their parents. However, family incarceration is not only expensive, inhumane, and highly traumatic for children, but it’s also completely unnecessary.
The government can ensure that asylum seekers show up for court hearings and comply with the process by using proven alternatives to detention. #EndFamilyDetention
Let’s be clear about what this Executive Order does: Instead of imprisoning children in separate internment camps away from their parents, this administration will now imprison children in the same internment camps as their parents.
The Executive Order @realDonaldTrump just signed does nothing to end the “zero-tolerance policy” that automatically criminalizes any and all immigrants who cross the border without legal papers, including those seeking asylum.
It does nothing to end the imprisonment of children.
It does nothing to end the imprisonment of children.
Children locked in “tender age” prison camps will still be locked in camps. Family detention camps.
#EndFamilyDetention
#EndFamilyDetention
