ICYMI: Today the Department of Justice announced it will begin an investigation of the Phoenix Police Department.

It’s a confirmation what local community members have been calling for and it’s about time.
Phoenix Vice Mayor Carlos Garcia, Mijente founding member, shared in his statement:

“[The investigation] is a clear message that this department is unfit to serve our community and further violates the violence & distrust that our community has been experiencing.” @PhxDistrict8
The @PhxDistrict8 office has been pushing against violations of civil rights by the Phoenix Police Department from day one — including urging for an independent investigation despite the push back. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

It’s no coincidence that the DOJ decided to step in.
We stand with them and will continue to support their work, alongside our gente.

Police departments cannot continue to be used to solve social ills — their overfunding comes at the expense of investments in our community.

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5 Aug
NEW: We just released a report w/@JustFuturesLaw & the @UWSchoolofLaw Immigration Clinic.

We documented a years-long pattern of ICE retaliations against activists—arrests, surveillance, deportations.

And we're demanding the Biden admin. stop now. 👇👇👇
npr.org/2021/08/04/102…
ICE agents followed activists to meetings, photographed them, circulated photos of them w/in ICE, & spied on their social media accounts—for nothing more than exercising First Amendment rights.

It's a constant state of surveillance, w/the threat of deportation always looming.
Beto, whose brother was in @OCAD_CHI, was picked up by ICE in 2019.

In detention, Beto organized fellow detainees decrying living conditions, like dirty cells & unwashed laundry, & was shuffled between detention centers.

He was then deported.
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25 May
🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨

Thomson Reuters is facing shareholder calls to investigate its business for human rights abuses b/c of its work w/ICE.

The two biggest shareholder advisors in the world, ISS & Glass Lewis, just came out *in favor* of an investigation.

This is huge for investors.
This is how it works: Shareholders can ask the board of directors to change company policies or review business practices.

A shareholder in Thomson Reuters, @BCGEU, called for a human rights assessment b/c Thomson Reuters works for ICE.

That proposal is now gaining steam.
Thomson Reuters has done this for years: They gave ICE access to a massive database w/hundreds of millions of records—names, addresses, utility bills, etc.—on some 171 million people.

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2 Apr
NEW: LexisNexis, the huge legal research firm, signed a $16.8 million contract w/ICE, giving access to billions of personal records, like credit histories, license plates, phone data, & more.

ICE then uses this data to target & deport us.

#NoTechforICE
theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice…
This is a new frontier: These data brokers are increasingly working w/police & agencies like ICE & CBP, selling vast troves of personal info.

This lets ICE agents pinpoint people they want to deport, knowing their addresses, phone & internet subscriptions, DMV records, etc.
We've seen how this supercharges ICE's deportations: Two agents sitting in a car entering data can terrorize an entire community. Their information is entered into a computer, their records are pulled out, & then people start disappearing
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1 Apr
We're LIVE with the national 'Deportations Under Biden' #EyesOnICE forum. We have so many people with us ready to take action. Join us! mijente.net/april1forum
@UndocuBlack
@HaitianBridge
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@NIJC
Jacinta kicks-off national 'Deportations Under Biden' #EyesOnICE forum,“Since 3/1 @conmijente w/ #WeareHome campaign & partner orgs have been organizing #EyesonICE forums across the country to lift up the stories & demands of the ppl who’ve confronted detention and deportation.
Jacinta w/ @conmijente shares the plans for the final #EyesonICE forum, “On May 3rd we'll have our closing forum, where we have invited @AliMayorkas to attend. We hope he’ll join us.”
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19 Mar
Today’s passage of #DreamAndPromise by the House is the result of decades of deep organizing by immigrant communities & reflects the urgent need to provide protection from deportation.

But the addition of harsh criminalization provisions in this version is very concerning.
The policing & mass incarceration systems in this country are fundamentally rigged against Black & Latinx ppl, and the #DreamAndPromise Act is no exception.

#HR6 is designed to strip access to Biden's promise of immigration reform from people who have experienced police contact.
Criminalization born of a racist system cant be the measure we use to determine who belongs & who goes.

Instead of extending access to undocumented communities of color #HR6 has punitive provisions that could make anyone who’s committed a misdemeanor ineligible for legal status.
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5 cosas importantes de saber cuando votamos #FueraTrump (1/7):
#1: Trump ha discriminado contras nuestras familias con salud preexistentes (2/7).
#2: Trump ha echo el esfuerzo de poner fin a la covertura de salud a más de 20 millones de personas durante la pandemia que ha impactado desproporcionadamente a nuestras comunidades.
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