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6 Feb, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Huge news from @UndocuBlack and @HaitianBridge 👇🏽#StopTheFlights
“The calls to Mayorkas’s team on Thursday night and the early hours of Friday are believed to have involved Guerline Jozef, of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an immigrant support group; Patrice Lawrence, of the UndocuBlack Network; and staff from senator Chris Van Hollen’s office.”
Jozef: “They were running two flights in a day in their hurry to deport as many ppl as possible. We had babies as young as four or five months old. We were so disturbed that we were determined that for now, those ppl will be protected.”

Thank you to advocates for their work. 🙏🏽

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