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#FamiliesBelongTogether: Teresa has been detained in Ocilla, GA for 10 months. She has five children — 4 U.S born and 1 a DACA recipient. She has 6 U.S. born grandchildren. She was detained for driving without a license. #EndFamilySeparation splcenter.org/attention-on-d…
Teresa has been a devoted member of her @NewnanGeorgia community since 1999. Our Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative team has applied for a stay of removal to stop Teresa's deportation. #EndFamilySeparation splcenter.org/our-issues/imm…
Help raise awareness of Teresa's case by sharing her story. #FamiliesBelongTogether splcenter.org/attention-on-d…
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Last year, we won a temporary stay of deportation for journalist Manuel Duran, who was arrested in Memphis in April, then detained & threatened with deportation.

This year, we'll keep fighting for immigrants in the Deep South. #SPLCWinterReadingList bit.ly/2Bb112a
Like so many others who have been deported or are detained & awaiting deportation, Manuel Duran would be in grave danger if her were deported from the US. splcenter.org/news/2018/12/1…
Law students volunteered with us to help defend our clients. "Immigration prisons exact an enormous emotional toll, & they make it nearly impossible for prisoners to find legal representation for their asylum cases," one wrote. splcenter.org/attention-on-d…
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"Let me be clear: walls work and we have them we are stopping illegals from getting into our country.” — DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Let’s be clear: walls don’t work and no human is illegal.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): How many children 17 years old or younger have died in DHS, ICE or CBP custody since you took office?

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen: I will get back you.

That number should be 0.
"I'm not a liar. We've never had a policy of family separation." — DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

We represent parents who have been separated from their children. Secretary Nielsen's claims do not reflect the facts that we are seeing on the ground. bit.ly/2Ltf7iV
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Peter Brown is a US citizen who was mistakenly detained by ICE after local sheriffs arrested him. We're suing. npr.org/2018/12/18/677…
In January, 17 Florida counties signed Basic Ordering Agreements, which compensate local sheriffs for their collaboration with ICE. Our lawsuit is the first to challenge a Florida sheriff for unlawfully detaining people at ICE’s request as part of a BOA. splcenter.org/news/2018/12/0…
Peter Brown was released from detention but as a result of the ordeal he lost his job and was unemployed. He also lives with the fear that he’ll be sent away from his family and friends. splcenter.org/seeking-justic…
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THREAD: A year ago today, a smiling Jeff Sessions walked onto stage and giddily announced the end of #DACA, taking away the ability for me and 800,000 others to keep living and working in the only country we consider home. He could hardly contain his excitement. It was wild. 1/
That announcement threw my life into total chaos. I’ve lived here for 22 YEARS, since I was 6 years old, & can’t imagine a life anywhere else.I’m a former Girl Scout & proud graduate of Rona ld Reagan High School w/ law school ambitions. Here’s me one year b4 I moved to Texas. 2/
Again: I came here as a six year old. I made my best friends here. I learned how to add & subtract numbers here. I learned to love country music here. Some of my DACA friends came here before they were old enough to read or walk; now they have kids of their own! 3/
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1. QAnon June 21 2018:

Organized riots being planned.
Counter measures in
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#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #TrumpTrain #Patriots #Pray #Fight #PainComing #EVIL #Immigrants #Children #BewareOfPlannedRiots
2. Rush: Border Separation 'Entirely Manufactured Crisis'.
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3. Liberal Hacks Attack Gov Mike Huckabee for Denouncing MS-13 Killers and Rapists thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/figure…

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UPDATE: Paul Ryan is shopping around his immigration proposal as a “fix” to family separation. That’s a lie. It does NOT solve this Trump-created crisis. It only makes it worse. Here’s what this bill would 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 do:

#KeepFamiliesTogether #FamiliesBelongTogether
❌ Jails families together — i.e., bigger cages for families
❌ INDEFINITE detention of children while parents are being prosecuted
❌ Would still result in separation of families if parent is sentenced to jail time
The bill also does NOT provide security and relief for DACA recipients. It creates a long, complicated process that does not guarantee that Dreamers will 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 obtain permanent relief. In short, it leaves many in the same limbo they’re in now. #DreamActNow
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1/ Whenever I go into despair re: the painful times we are living in, I think of ancestors who survived the worst, & still maintained their humanity. I’m going to share about one tonight. #SpiritualGuidance4Now #FamiliesBelongTogether
Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was the rabbi of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. Despite the harrowing, murderous conditions, he counseled his community to make sure they continued to develop their inner life...#SpiritualGuidance4Now #FamiliesBelongTogether 2/
even in the darkest of time. He called his people to not go into despair, & instead, to continue to look for holiness & light in the everyday. Teaching in the Hasidic tradition, he taught that the Divine Presence is everywhere. #SpiritualGuidance4Now #FamiliesBelongTogether 3/
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“Trump is trying to scare us into hiding, to get us to back down. We’re not going to back down.” #DefendDACA #DACA m.dailykos.com/stories/1696432
"Among those protesting in DC was Jeanette Vizguerra, who spent 90 days in sanctuary before winning a two-yr reprieve from deportation."
"In Chicago, #DACA recipient Angelica Magana told ABC 7 Chicago 'that I refuse to go back in the shadows.'" ✊🏽 #DefendDACA
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DACA thread:
Don't be fooled by @realDonaldTrump. Ending #DACA is simple Follow the money. Here we go:
Just before the elections. Geo Group ( largest private prison contractor) Donated $250K to Trump Super Pac. Then $250K for his inauguration
As soon as trump won the election, their stock SOARED.
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