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Witness At The Border

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8 Mar

It began as families huddling together at the foot of the bridge across the border river in Matamoros, Mexico. Told at first that they must wait their turn for a chance to plead for asylum, for mercy, they stayed on the plaza, in a pocket of concrete in sight of...1/10

...the uniformed troops that stood guarding the arched path to the other side, a walkway daily slowly traversed by those clutching the documents that allowed their passage. As the tourniquet at the border tightened, the small colony of hope and defiance grew. 2/10

Without a lifeline from groups on the US side, which began as bags of food from McDonalds & later became a well-organized network of organizations providing sustenance & care, the beachhead might have lost its tenuous grip, & dissipated as waves of opposition, criminality 3/10

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Witness At The Border

@WitnessBorder

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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Witness At The Border

@WitnessBorder

6 Feb

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Michelle Sal posts-BREAKING NEWS ‼️ Cowlitz County Superior Court has notified @ICEgov of its intention to end the county's contract to hold immigrant youth in detention at Cowlitz County Youth Services Center.
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As of last year, facility in Longview, WA was one of only 3 facilities nationwide to hold young people in detention setting for ICE for extended periods of time. Advocates locally & nationally raised serious concerns about living conditions & legal implications of... 2/4

...prolonged detention for immigrant youth in these facilities. Last year Oregon's NORCOR jail also its contracts with ICE, including its contract to hold juveniles. We will have more analysis & comment on the termination of Cowlitz Cty’s contract with ICE in coming days.3/4

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Witness At The Border

@WitnessBorder

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

@WitnessBorder

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

@WitnessBorder

25 Jul 20

@ICEgov

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

@CBP

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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