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7 Feb

More than 4,000 children are known to have been separated from their parents before and during the official start of zero tolerance in spring 2018. Under the policy, border agents charged parents en masse with illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border...1/4

...then placed their children in government facilities. The policy drew condemnation from around the world as stories emerged almost daily about screaming children, some as young as babies, forcibly taken away from parents.
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The U.S. has acknowledged that agents separated families long before they enforced zero tolerance across the entire southern border, its agencies did not properly record separations, and some detention centers were overcrowded and undersupplied, with...3/4

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6 Feb

We have learned that a detention camp for teens is opening again in Carrizo Springs, Texas. It is run by Baptist Child and Family Services, the organization that ran the camp along the river in the Borderlands of west Texas at a Port of Entry. It was called Tornillo.1/9

It became a symbol of all that is wrong about immigration policy. A movement grew as people gathered to witness what they could of the children inside. Without witnesses the children would have been invisible. One child later told us that there were times during his...2/9

...confinement when he could not remember his own name.

The outcry against a child prison in the desert brought down the tents at Tornillo. But the policy, like a metastasized cancer, did not die. It grew in Homestead, Florida, and witnesses took their vigil there, and... 3/9

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Witness At The Border

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4 Feb

This group was established to be a forum, a community, and a clearinghouse for those who feel called to be witnesses to what most of us perceive to be abusive and racist policies toward migrants. These repulsive policies are going on right now.1/5

They include the practice of imprisoning migrants, often euphemistically called detention, damaging families, life-threatening deportation & what is called expulsion, built on false narrative that migrants are more of a threat to your health than Super Bowl party next door.2/5

The denial of human rights to migrants did not begin under Trump & it will not end under Biden. We look forward to whatever improvements may come under the new administration. But like all struggles that address the question of human rights, it will take a paradigm shift...3/5

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Witness At The Border

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25 Jul 20

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Some details on the @ICEgov hotel detention in McAllen, El Paso, and Arizona. @TXCivilRights discovered children held at Hampton Inn in McAllen. Quoted from Flores report: ICE utilizes contracts with MVM, Inc. (MVM) through Juvenile & Family Residential Management Unit... 1/10

... (JFRMU) to transport & temporarily house unaccompanied minors & family units pending removal under Title 42. This program is an extension of regular transportation services for aliens between custodial settings instituted in 2014.2/10

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Initially, the program required only brief stays in hotels prior to deportation flights & prolonged stays in temporary housing were rare occurrences before the implementation of the Title 42 expulsion protocols. However, since implementation of the @CBP-issued expulsion...3/10

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Witness At The Border

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18 Jun 20

On the subject of the comments period open for response to newly proposed asylum rules...

The Trump administration has taken steps that have choked natural flow of migration at the southern border. Before the #COVID19 pandemic, the mechanism they chose was... 1/10

... distortion of a concept known as asylum which set rules by which a person is judged eligible for entry by demonstrating that their reasons for leaving their homes were dire. That they suffered. Asylum is a policy, a principle in int’l law that arose from the shame felt...2/10

...when people fleeing Nazi persecution were turned away by other countries. So rules were set up to evaluate persecution. Even this feint at good intentions has since been perverted by the xenophobic impulses of our & other countries. 3/10

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Witness At The Border

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22 May 20

We notice when things change. The last 2 weeks as we watched the flights of #ICEAir, we noticed something different happening. New flights from near the border, to Mexico City.
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@ICEgov

What are these flights? They are expulsions of Mexican nationals. Not deportations. A deportation requires a procedure that involves @ICEgov custody. But these folks are never in ICE custody. 2/7

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They are just like immediate expulsions at border that are being carried out under orders of the @CDCgov that pretend that we are being invaded by carriers of #COVIDー19. I say pretend because our gov has been wanting to do this all along-... 3/7

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