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1. Right now the family detention center in Karnes is a population of imprisoned reunified dads & their children. Many of these dads were tricked into signing deportation agreements in English that @ICEgov told them were reunification papers.
#DadsDemandJustice #KarnesStrike
@ICEgov 2. RAICES has confirmed that 16 of our clients were forcibly re-separated from their kids at Karnes & sent to the South TX Detention Complex in Pearsall, TX by armed ICE officers. The 16 dads spent the night in Pearsall, their kids left behind.
#DadsDemandJustice #KarnesStrike
3. A RAICES attorney asked why our clients were transferred & ICE referenced "disruptive behavior" causing "safety concerns.” @ICEgov said the dads didn't want to "go w/ the flow," & that this included behavior like "not wanting to participate in activities."
#KarnesStrike
4. ICE claims that family detention facilities are humane & civil, comparing them to summer camps. Summer camps don’t get stormed by armed guards arresting their campers separating them from their kids to retaliate against non-violent protest. #KarnesStrike #DadsDemandJustice
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We're so grateful to everyone who donated today as an act of resistance to counter Trump's hate.

One donation did so in honor of "my Great-Great Grandparents who themselves immigrated to this country in search of hope."
Another did in honor of "Jakelin Caal Maquin & Felipe Gomez Alonso", the two children who died in CBP custody over the past few weeks.
We received another donation "in memory of the trump administration's missing heart, empathy and conscience"
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Last week, Buzzfeed reported on Juana Graciela Cardona Alverez, a 27 y/o woman w/two US citizen daughters.

She fled Guatemala after repeated sexual assault by family. She's now detained, separated from her kids.

We need your help to reunify them: change.org/p/ice-release-…
Juana's case is heartbreaking: She came here when she was 16 speaking Jacaltec, an indigenous language.

But she was was forced to sign forms she didn't understand that guaranteed her deportation, 10 yrs later, back to the town where she was assaulted.
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We separated her from her kids, sent her back to a place where she'd endured sexual assault, & separated her once again for trying to rejoin her daughters.

All b/c she didn't get a fair hearing when she entered. She could have stayed, but her forms were in the wrong language.
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OUT TODAY: Our video on LGBTQ+ migrants who made a hellish trek to seek asylum.

They were refused food, transport, services, etc on the caravan up. Water was thrown in their faces. They were discriminated against widely.

They banded together for protection. This is their story.
The stories are harrowing.

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She left, traveling 2.5K+ miles to Tijuana.

"You don't leave your country b/c you want to, they force you to go."
She & 80+ others traveled to Tijuana w/our help & those of other orgs.

They have strong asylum cases—burned arms from gangs, partners killed, coercion, extortion—but they needed lawyers to prove it.

And they needed housing, food, security, etc. They were & are vulnerable in TJ.
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Right now, people are fighting to dismantle Berks Family Detention Center.

"Family Detention Center" are three words that should never appear together
It's really easy to ignore local activism like this, but to do so is to ignore how deeply tied together local struggles are with national events.
Berks is a unique institution in Pennsylvania and it is a harrowing model that is being eyed for replication.

If this is not the sort of thing we any nationwide then we must support the local efforts to dismantle these tools of authoritarianism before they are standardized
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Even as hundreds of separated children remain terrified & alone in detention, the Trump Administration is moving to try & replace family separation with indefinite family incarceration in an unacceptable bid to jail children indefinitely and subject them to more trauma and abuse.
To move this plan forward, the Trump Administration is trying to strip away existing safeguards and protections for children through a new regulation to allow for the long-term imprisonment of children in facilities with well-documented abusive conditions.
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Why does Twitter deliberately target Right-wing accounts for Shadow-banning and why it will sooner rather than later completely back-fire and why they are ultimately going to destroy the Left and what a great day that will be. Thread. 1/15
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The horrific #Goodlatte #immigration bill soon up for debate isn't something to be "compromised" with. It's a harsh, intentional, irrevocable shift Trumpward.

Shred it.

Burn the ashes.

Scatter them upon the Antarctic plains.

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