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11 Feb, 3 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: 120 organizations ask President @JoeBiden's administration to consider releasing immigrants left languishing in detention despite narrowed enforcement priorities. americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/coali… #FreeThemAll
"We are heartened by the early steps the Biden-Harris admin has taken to reorient the immigration system toward a framework that embraces human rights & compassion.
However, we are concerned these policies have not yet been implemented in a meaningful or systemic way w/regard..."
"... to the approximately 14K ppl in ICE detention. Leaving behind the thousands who continue to suffer in detention will undermine efforts by your agencies to rebuild trust w/communities & is at odds w/Pres Biden’s stated commitment to racial equity & human rights." #FreeThemAll

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11 Feb
Groups call for investigation after Haitian man is stripped and beaten by guards at ICE facility: dailykos.com/story/2021/2/1…
"The use of violent force against Black immigrants is not new; it is part of an ongoing pattern and practice of anti-Black racism by ICE officials": latinacomunica.com/2021/02/08/hai…
"A 2019 report on South Florida detention facilities identifies the racial slurs and disproportionate use of force directed at Black immigrants by ICE officers. The violence that Black immigrants face in ICE custody also extends beyond Florida immigration detention centers."
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11 Feb
ICYMI: Senate Dems reintroduce bill putting #TPS holders on path to legalization.

If passed, the legislation could stand to protect over 400,000 immigrants from nearly a dozen designated nations, including El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Yemen.

dailykos.com/stories/2021/2…
Barbara Rauda, a #TPS holder and frontline cleaner at Walter Reed Military Hospital: "I have been in the U.S. for over twenty one years and I have three children who are U.S. citizens, having a green card would help keep families like mine together.” vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
Rose Michelle Tilus, Haitian #TPS holder and frontline worker: “As a frontline worker during the COVID pandemic, my immigration status has brought me tremendous stress that I would not be able to provide care in my community."
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10 Feb
Outcry as more than 20 children deported to Haiti.

"Following intense lobbying from groups & congressional staffers, who pointed to political instability & lawlessness in Haiti, repatriation flights to Haiti were paused on Fri., but they resumed on Mon." theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f…
"The expulsions were carried out under a 77-year-old public health statute, called Title 42, first invoked by the Trump administration after the start of the coronavirus outbreak."
"A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said that policy would continue for new arrivals at the border, until there had been a review and facilities for housing migrants had been restored."
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5 Feb
The eight Senate Democrats who had voted for Tom Cotton’s anti-immigrant amendment:

@SenatorHassan
@SenatorHick
@SenMarkKelly
@Sen_JoeManchin
@SenGaryPeters
@SenatorSinema
@SenStabenow
@SenatorTester

reuters.com/article/us-hea…
“A bipartisan majority in the Senate came together to send the ‘message’ to undocumented people that they're not welcome here.” discourseblog.com/senate-undocum…
“Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young & Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton introduced an amendment to prevent the plan from, in Cotton’s words, ‘courting foreigners w/US taxpayer funds.’ And the amendment passed w/relatively flying colors, as all Republicans & eight Democrats...”
Read 4 tweets
4 Feb
120 law professors tell Sec. @AliMayorkas: DHS has discretion to stop deportations.

immigrantjustice.org/press-releases… #StopTheFlights
"The professors and experts joined together in the letter in response to increasing alarm about deportation flights which have occurred in recent days and are still being scheduled for this week to Jamaica; the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cameroon; and Honduras ..."
"... as well as Friday’s deportation of a witness in the El Paso massacre. An additional flight scheduled for Tues. was intended to remove families who have been detained at the family detention center in Texas. Fortunately, advocates convinced DHS to stop these deportations."
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3 Feb
An ICE deportation plane deporting Cameroonian, Angolan, Congolese and other African migrants is expected to leave Louisiana TODAY: theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f…
"On Monday, a coalition of migrant rights groups – Freedom for Immigrants, Al Otro Lado and Advocates for Immigrants Rights – presented fresh allegations to the DHS of what they described as torture of Cameroonian asylum-seekers."
"One of them ... described being brought into a room w/darkened windows at the Winn correctional center, where he was forced by ICE agents to put his fingerprint on a document in lieu of a signature, waiving his rights to further legal process before deportation."
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