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Sep 18, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
The lack of consent is immeasurable in immigration detention. Often it is detention staff who know the diagnosis and speak directly to medical practitioners - not detainees. Detainees often do not know why they are ill or what medicines they are taking.
Detainees are often not spoken to in their language - especially when off site accompanied by detention staff. Detainees make complaints but cannot actively participate in their care and are routinely refused care that will result in multiple trips offsite.
Knowledge & consent is doubly hard for parents WITH their children in detention. Parents often do not know why their children are not well, what their children are sick with, or what medicine they are taking. Parents cannot make informed decisions about their children's care.
Finally. Immigration detention is civil detention. It is not allowed to be punitive. But of course, it is. Under the guise of civil detention detainees are not permitted quick hearings, quick bond/bail hearings & are stripped of constitutional rights. It make it all so much worse

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Jun 14
Why parole for USC spouses is an important and massively humane step toward a more functional immigration system. A 🧵
As an immigration practitioner, nothing is more frustrating than meeting a married couple and trying to explain what the process is to legalize your spouse who is undocumented. There is no character limit possible to explain. The steps can fill a book, its insufferable.
The first thing I do, is explain it is a long and hard process. To be supportive of each other in this difficult journey. And to be ready, because in the vast majority of cases (if you are lucky) will take 5-10 years, requires the spouse to leave the country, and later return.
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May 28, 2021
Not the Friday news we need: Another Rocket Docket. Family raids are not far behind this. Way to hide behind legal service providers. As a family detention lawyer - these are the cities where most detained (raided) families didn't receive notice of hearings & didn't have lawyers.
Match many of the cities: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Also - I have no idea whether this plan was previously communicated to LSPs, but I'm fairly certain that no LSP is funded sufficiently to ensure that all families and children in these communities are represented.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 26, 2021
Dilley and Karnes have for six years harmed families & failed to provide appropriate safeguards for children. We are grateful for the relentless work of @ProyectoDilley and @RAICESTEXAS who have protected families & will continue to hold ICE accountable.

expressnews.com/news/local/art…
However complacency is not an option.

Tonight in Berks, a mother and her three children working with @aldeapjc have reached 7 weeks of detention with no end in sight. It’s time to maintain accountability here in Pennsylvania.

Families deserve to be #FreeAndTogether here too.
Follow @aldea_pjc for actions beginning tomorrow to free this mother and her children.

We will monitor developments on the ground as well.

Today we worked relentlessly to free the families at Berks. Tomorrow is another day.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 19, 2021
Time to dive into the immigration bill. Literally the worst part about being a lawyer is that when you have time to read, you read stuff like this. I'm sure there will be a lot to like.
Leading the bill is the path to citizenship: An independent ground to a lawful status called “Lawful Prospective Immigrant Status.” Available in 6 year increments that permits adjustment after 5 years. There are limitations based on your crim history and presence in the US.
Notable in the adjustment section is an independent carve out for all children brought to the United States as children - defined as under the age of 18. There is no wait to seek adjustment in this category it seems and a streamlined process for previous DACA recipients.
Read 44 tweets
Feb 18, 2021
Centers plural, which means both of the Family Jails in Texas. This means that 455 parents, children and infants are without power and water, in the custody of the government - by force and for no reason. #FreeThemAll.
No ability to choose clothes to keep warm or get blankets. Can't start a fire to keep warm. Can't ask their kids what resort they want to vacation in. No autonomy - only the forced imprisonment of kids & the parents who are doing everything they can to keep their kids alive.
No one *has* to be in a family jail. It's the discretion to the government. Which means these children were chosen to be placed, and kept, in a facility that has no water or power. I appreciate the transparency of @ICEgov explaining - but what will be done about it?
Read 5 tweets
Feb 2, 2021
It’s pretty terrible to be working to halt the deportation of children to harm, on the same day that the government announces a task force to evaluate how this government harmed children.

Follow @aldea_pjc & @ProyectoDilley for updates.

Demand accountability. Protect children.
Here are ways you can help and act:

Uplift this letter signed by 110 organizations, schools and faith groups demanding safety for children facing removal TOMORROW.

humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/…
Remember tonight @ 5PM when the Government is announcing measures for a humane immigration system for children & asylum seekers - they will also be grabbing children from detention cntrs & sending them to staging areas to be put on death flights. That’s no way to #defendfamilies
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