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10 Feb, 4 tweets, 5 min read
Today during Black Immigrant Advocacy Week of Action, we call on @POTUS and @DHS_Secretary to use their authority to designate #TPS and #DED now to protect Black lives! #Act4BlackImms
At least 3.9 million people are in need of humanitarian aid in #Cameroon and half a million are displaced by conflict. @DHS_Secretary must designate #CameroonTPS now! Learn more here: bit.ly/39BFmRV. #Act4BlackImms
40,000 Cameroonians in the U.S. are at risk of deportation to multiple ongoing conflicts in Cameroon. #TPS would safeguard people and keep families united. @DHS_Secretary must designate #CameroonTPS Now! #Act4BlackImms Image
Ongoing human rights violations, including slavery, in #Mauritania make safe return impossible. #TPS was created to protect people from deportation to countries where their lives or freedom would be at risk and @DHSgov must designate for 18 months now! #Act4BlackImms

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12 Feb
To meaningfully address systemic racism in America - as the #Biden admin has pledged - immigration must be included. A dedicated Task Force and resources are needed. Call on @POTUS to establish a Task Force on Black immigrants now: p2a.co/K7K44Jr #Act4BlackImms
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11 Feb
Seeking asylum is an internationally-recognized human right, yet far too many Black asylum seekers are denied due process, locked in detention, and eventually deported. @DHS_Secretary must address racism in the asylum system and transform it towards justice! #Act4BlackImms
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12 Dec 20
Prevailing against unrelenting attacks on immigrants, our SD Cross-Border team secured humanitarian parole for a Venezuelan family of 5 fleeing political persecution. Their 6 yo son's medical conditions incl epilepsy left him immobile @NBCUTelemundo shared their story tonight 1/4
Meanwhile our clients are presenting at POE as we speak to be paroled in where their son can receive adequate medical care. In exactly one month deserving families like these will be barred from asylum under new regulations enacted this week by the Trump Administration. 2/4
ImmDef Managing Atty who represented the family, @CargioliM shared, "We have hope that the new Administration will strike down Trump’s callous immigration policies and allow families who merit asylum to have access to justice." 3/4
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21 Sep 20
"Whether forcibly removing women’s uteruses or refusing medical treatment to those with COVID-19, no detainee is safe in immigration custody." - Munmeeth Soni, ImmDef Director of Litigation and Advocacy. lat.ms/2HeoCEs
"This outbreak is further proof that ICE and the Trump Administration have zero regard for human life. What ICE is doing to detainees is nothing short of criminal. We must put an end to ICE and end immigration detention once and for all. " - Munmeeth Soni, Director of Litigation
ADF: Our clients speak of people sitting right next to them coughing up blood, fainting, and vomiting. When we asked what the guards have told them, they said one word: nothing. #FreeThemAll
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15 Sep 20
As news of mass hysterectomies of women imprisoned by ICE broke yesterday, our team was saddened but not surprised. Horrific medical neglect & abuse at the hands of ICE & CBP is something we have documented among our clients for years.

#FreeThemAll #AbolishICE

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One client was detained in front of her 2 young daughters as she left home one morning. Once imprisoned hundreds of miles away from her family, she learned she was pregnant. Twice she was sent to off-site hospitals for complications with no notice to her family or lawyer.
This young mom became deathly sick during ICE detention due to an inability to exercise, bathe and b/c of rotten food she was served. As her atty said “she looked sick, depressed, unable to focus. She smelled awful. It was such a dehumanizing way to bring a baby into this world.”
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2 Sep 20
They have reason to smile: our mother & son clients are some of the lucky few to be paroled into U.S. from MX under MPP during the pandemic. After 8 torturous months, Managing Atty @CargioliM & Staff Atty Paulina Reyes made the impossible possible and welcomed them home! (THREAD) Image
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The stress of her life in limbo & the reality of the danger asylum seekers face in MPP took a toll on the mother's health. After facing constant harassment, a kidnapping attempt, two denied NRIs, and a previously denied humanitarian parole req, the mother's health suffered. (3/4)
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