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A father & son detained at Karnes Family Detention Center were released today after 100+ days locked up, after one of our attorneys successfully got their case re-opened.

This is a reality that @ICEgov can make happen for ALL families.
#FreeThemAll #SafeAndTogether
Small backstory: This family had been kidnapped in Mexico and received a removal order for missing their court day. Why did they miss court? .....because they were kidnapped.

This is what we mean by cruelty being the point. #AbolishICE
The family is now safe with their sponsor but let this be a reminder that there are still families who face separation, deportation, or prolonged detention.

Thank you to our partners @SSFTexas & @SA_Stands for rallying outside of Karnes today to demand they #FreeThemAll
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🚨 After last week's court decision to release children from family detention centers w/o their parents, we need to remind folks there are real, irreparable effects to family separation.

That's why we're releasing a comprehensive new report, "The U.S. Gov't Kidnapped My Son."
At the height of Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, RAICES worked w/families who were eventually reunited after suffering Family Separation 1.0 in the summer of 2018.

The report details the experiences of these families & their subsequent imprisonment at the Karnes facility.
One father described his first time speaking to his son on the phone after they were separated:

“The only thing he told me was ‘why did you leave me?’ Those were his first words when he heard me and it made me cry.”
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IMPORTANT: We just found out that ICE is holding families in custody at a hotel in San Antonio. We were contacted by the sponsor of a Haitian family held at the hotel. They have been there for more than 20 days!
One of our attorneys was not allowed to talk to the family, so she showed up at the hotel. We finally found them because the family was communicating with crayons and coloring books at the windows. Here's a photo of their message. #DontLookAway #FreeThemAll
Here's another photo from @SilviaElenaFF.
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#GoodNews? Hardly.
While a federal judge ordering the release of children in family detention centers by July 17th seems like a great move...there’s a small caveat many may have to be reminded of.

🧵👇🏽
nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/…
Last month, ICE began family separation 2.0, in which they gave parents the difficult choice of 1) staying indefinitly in detention w/their children during a pandemic or 2) separating families by only releasing children alone, to sponsors & keeping parents locked up.
“Family residential centers are on fire and there is no more time for half measures.”

This is what Judge Gee said, referring to the spread of #COVID19 in family detention centers. Because YES the virus has already spread there.
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