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26 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Dilley and Karnes have for six years harmed families & failed to provide appropriate safeguards for children. We are grateful for the relentless work of @ProyectoDilley and @RAICESTEXAS who have protected families & will continue to hold ICE accountable.

expressnews.com/news/local/art…
However complacency is not an option.

Tonight in Berks, a mother and her three children working with @aldeapjc have reached 7 weeks of detention with no end in sight. It’s time to maintain accountability here in Pennsylvania.

Families deserve to be #FreeAndTogether here too.
Follow @aldea_pjc for actions beginning tomorrow to free this mother and her children.

We will monitor developments on the ground as well.

Today we worked relentlessly to free the families at Berks. Tomorrow is another day.
Today one of our moms fainted while praying after ensuing a grueling immigration interview where she recounted the most horrific life imaginable while detained. It’s unnecessary.

And the parents and children deserve better. And, frankly, there is nothing stronger than a family.

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19 Feb
Time to dive into the immigration bill. Literally the worst part about being a lawyer is that when you have time to read, you read stuff like this. I'm sure there will be a lot to like.
Leading the bill is the path to citizenship: An independent ground to a lawful status called “Lawful Prospective Immigrant Status.” Available in 6 year increments that permits adjustment after 5 years. There are limitations based on your crim history and presence in the US.
Notable in the adjustment section is an independent carve out for all children brought to the United States as children - defined as under the age of 18. There is no wait to seek adjustment in this category it seems and a streamlined process for previous DACA recipients.
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18 Feb
Centers plural, which means both of the Family Jails in Texas. This means that 455 parents, children and infants are without power and water, in the custody of the government - by force and for no reason. #FreeThemAll.
No ability to choose clothes to keep warm or get blankets. Can't start a fire to keep warm. Can't ask their kids what resort they want to vacation in. No autonomy - only the forced imprisonment of kids & the parents who are doing everything they can to keep their kids alive.
No one *has* to be in a family jail. It's the discretion to the government. Which means these children were chosen to be placed, and kept, in a facility that has no water or power. I appreciate the transparency of @ICEgov explaining - but what will be done about it?
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2 Feb
It’s pretty terrible to be working to halt the deportation of children to harm, on the same day that the government announces a task force to evaluate how this government harmed children.

Follow @aldea_pjc & @ProyectoDilley for updates.

Demand accountability. Protect children.
Here are ways you can help and act:

Uplift this letter signed by 110 organizations, schools and faith groups demanding safety for children facing removal TOMORROW.

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Remember tonight @ 5PM when the Government is announcing measures for a humane immigration system for children & asylum seekers - they will also be grabbing children from detention cntrs & sending them to staging areas to be put on death flights. That’s no way to #defendfamilies
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18 Sep 20
The lack of consent is immeasurable in immigration detention. Often it is detention staff who know the diagnosis and speak directly to medical practitioners - not detainees. Detainees often do not know why they are ill or what medicines they are taking.
Detainees are often not spoken to in their language - especially when off site accompanied by detention staff. Detainees make complaints but cannot actively participate in their care and are routinely refused care that will result in multiple trips offsite.
Knowledge & consent is doubly hard for parents WITH their children in detention. Parents often do not know why their children are not well, what their children are sick with, or what medicine they are taking. Parents cannot make informed decisions about their children's care.
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17 Sep 19
Myself, @AmyMaldonadoLaw, @HMAesq, @Allandaros, and @ColumbiaLaw's Elora Mukherjee sue on behalf of 126 detained mothers and kids subjected to impossible standards/procedures while seeking protection.

No child should be deported when there is a 49% chance they’ll die. #asylumban
The #AsylumBan is bad enough. But the admin is attaching policies and practices to the Ban to make it impossible to pass even a simple threshhold fear screening - even if you are a child.
Let me reiterate. This is not even to be granted asylum. This is asking to be allowed to see a Judge.

There are now three (or more) layers of review for positive decisions referring cases to Judges. Zero review for cases barred from seeing judges.
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22 Mar 19
I have to admit, I was very surprised to see so much outrage about what happened to our 10 year old client and her dad yesterday after I posed a question (mainly for my immig attorney friends). But perhaps we live in an immigration bubble where horrible things happen every day.1/
I know for sure that I am desensitized to many horrible things as a result, as our primary job is to help detained kids and their parents, to keep them from dying and to get them free. We hear terrible things, and battle a system that wants to send them back to terrible things 2/
But do realize that immigrant children are threatened all the time with separation. Parents are threatened all the time with losing their children. This is not something new but it is much worse. It’s a consistent threat made against children and parents in the immig. system. 3/
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