BREAKING: In a settlement to a major federal lawsuit, ICE has agreed not to deport the immigrant activists who sued the agency after suffering retaliatory arrests, and to instruct officers not to target people “for exercising First Amendment rights.”
Immigrant farmworkers with Vermont-based human rights organization @MigrantJustice led a march today to Burlington’s federal courthouse to claim victory and file the settlement in Migrant Justice v. Wolf.
“The actions of ICE against Migrant Justice and its members cannot be divorced from the federal government's, including ICE and other enforcement agencies’, disgraceful history of unlawfully targeting, surveilling, and disrupting grassroots movements.”
“It is up to us to hold our government to account for this unlawful conduct,” said our Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre.
MORE at: ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…
MORE at: ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…
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