Federal agencies have attempted to silence the immigrant rights movement more than 1,010 times. Want to hear our voices? The Immigrant Rights Clinic @nyulaw and @NewSanctuaryNYC launch immigrantrightsvoices.org to #ProtectImmigrantVoices (a thread). theintercept.com/2020/11/01/ice…
Retaliation against dissent isn’t new. But over the last four years, we’ve seen an explosive rise in the use of surveillance, arrest, detention, deportation, & prosecution against immigrant activists & defenders. immigrantrightsvoices.org 
For those of us at Immigrant Rights Clinic @nyulaw & @NewSanctuaryNYC, this hit home in 2018 when ICE detained @NewSanctuaryNYC leaders Ravi Ragbir & Jean Montrevil in a joint operation after they spoke out against the cruelty of the deportation machine. theintercept.com/2018/01/19/ice…
Jean was deported on January 16, 2018, early in the morning after MLK day. We launched a campaign to #BringJeanHome at bringjeanhome.org. theintercept.com/2020/01/16/jea…
We were able to stop Ravi’s deportation for the time being, and he continues to fight to this day. #IStandWithRavi Join us at istandwithravi.org. documentedny.com/2020/10/30/rav…
By attempting to take out both leaders @NewSanctuaryNYC, ICE exposed its playbook and made it clear that they were targeted immigrant leaders because of the power of their voices, not the stale deportation grounds they cited in their paperwork. immigrantrightsvoices.org
.@MigrantJustice exposed ICE’s and CBP’s tactics in VT, spanning years of surveillance, arrests, detentions, deportations, & infiltration of farmworkers organizing for their rights. Their recent campaign success shows the power of their collective voices. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Communities in the NW are also fighting back to protect leaders like Maru Mora Villalpando of @ResistenciaNW and to stop the retaliation against others @JustFuturesLaw law360.com/articles/13182… and seattletimes.com/seattle-news/i…
Many lives hang in the balance. Detention activists like Claudio Rojas, deported to Argentina in 2019 after the debut @TInfiltrators, a film elevating his advocacy. His case is pending review in the 11th Circuit. bringclaudiohome.org courthousenews.com/deportation-of…
Or people like Hector Garcia Mendoza, who was deported two business days after becoming a named plaintiff in the #FreeEDC class action lawsuit seeking the release of people from Elizabeth Detention Center due to the outbreak of #COVID19. gothamist.com/news/ice-detai…
Or the incredible women @NSC_CS, whose outspoken advocacy from sanctuary triggered the implementation of a Miller-led plan to fine them hundreds of thousands of dollars for daring to protect themselves and their families from persecution and death. statesman.com/news/20201022/…
It's not just immigrants who have been impacted. We are still reeling over the criminal prosecutions of @NoMoreDeath humanitarian aid workers by the DOJ. theintercept.com/2019/11/23/sco…
Journalists, lawyers, even clergy ministering to immigrants at the border were surveilled and targeted, like @KajiDousa buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
And everyone—citizens and noncitizen—who rallied against family separation and deportation? We were all surveilled, as reporting by the Nation and the Intercept revealed. theintercept.com/2019/04/29/fam… and thenation.com/article/archiv…
Whistleblowers are attacked. Women in detention who experienced unwanted hysterectomies. Children who spoke out when parents were arrested. Cameroonians who dared to call the system racist and rigged. They told us what the government didn’t want us to hear. They seek justice.
Now more than ever we need to protect the immigrant rights movement. We will not be silenced. Join us to #ProtectImmigrantVoices. Visit and share the map, elevate these stories, and follow the campaign at immigrantrightsvoices.org
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