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Alina Das
@Das_Alina
Professor of Clinical Law & Co-Director, NYU Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic. Author of No Justice In The Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants.
May 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
It's long past time to #EndDHSRetaliation. For the last several years, so many of my clients have suffered retaliation from DHS for speaking out about the immigration system. We need to redress these harms and adopt a comprehensive policy to #ProtectImmigrantVoices --> Case is point: #RaviRagbir - a nationally recognized immigrant rights activists suddenly arrested and detained in 2018. As his wife and immigrant rights advocate Amy Gottlieb wrote just this week in @washingtonpost, ICE is STILL pursuing his deportation. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
May 18, 2021 • 16 tweets • 11 min read
What’s the NY #DignityNotDetention Act? Why do immigrants, organizers, and advocates support it? How can you get involved? A thread… There’s a long history of counties and private prison corporations entering contracts with ICE to lock up New Yorkers who are trying to fix their civil immigration status. Today, several counties in NYS have active contracts renting jail beds to ICE:
thenyic.pi.bypronto.com/2/wp-content/u…
Jan 11, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
On this day in history three years ago, ICE detained immigrant rights leader #RaviRagbir, and police arrested community members protesting this injustice. A reminder that when people stand up for immigrant rights, they are not treated with kid gloves. 1/ wnyc.org/story/arrests-… Ravi Ragbir, Jean Montrevil, and @NewSanctuaryNYC stood up against cruel and inhumane deportation policies. For that, they were surveilled, arrested, detained, and transferred to an immigration prison in FL in January 2018. 2/ theintercept.com/2018/01/19/ice…
Nov 1, 2020 • 16 tweets • 11 min read
Federal agencies have attempted to silence the immigrant rights movement more than 1,010 times. Want to hear our voices? The Immigrant Rights Clinic @nyulaw and @NewSanctuaryNYC launch immigrantrightsvoices.org to #ProtectImmigrantVoices (a thread). theintercept.com/2020/11/01/ice… Retaliation against dissent isn’t new. But over the last four years, we’ve seen an explosive rise in the use of surveillance, arrest, detention, deportation, & prosecution against immigrant activists & defenders. immigrantrightsvoices.org
Jul 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Federal immigration authorities have been undermining social movements in violation of the #FirstAmendment for a long time, and it's gotten worse under this administration. What's happening with the #PortlandProtests is just the latest example. The first targeted under this administration? Immigrant rights leaders. ICE began openly picking off activists for deportation within the first year of the Trump Administration. npr.org/2018/03/16/591…
Apr 26, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Today is Ousman's 1,000th day in immigration jail. His case is an example of everything that is wrong about the deportation machine. #FreeOusman (thread) Ousman was arrested on July 31, 2017 in a home raid. ICE is the only law enforcement agency in the US that thinks it can go to a family's home without a judicial warrant and slap them in cuffs. It's unconstitutional. immigrantdefenseproject.org/ice-home-and-c…
Mar 31, 2020 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
THREAD: For #immigration jails, NJ is the center of the #COVID19 epidemic. We’re knee-deep in lawsuits to get our people out. ICE and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in NY and NJ are fighting to keep our people locked up - even as the virus rapidly spreads. Some observations: First, there’s NO QUESTION that #COVID19 is in immigration jails. As of last night (3/30) ICE itself is confirming 9 cases (4 people confined and 5 personnel) in immigration jails already (6 total in NJ jails alone). And that’s only the confirmed cases. ice.gov/coronavirus
Mar 18, 2019 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
BREAKING: We’ve sued ICE to stop the unconstitutional detention & deportation of activist #ClaudioRojas following the debut of “The Infiltrators” @sundancefest, which depicts Claudio’s immigrant rights organizing.
Press release: dreamactivist.org/campaigns/fede…
THREAD You’ve probably heard about Claudio’s courageous activism. In 2012, Claudio, a father of two, was detained in Broward Transitional Center. He organized with activists from the inside, as described in @ThisAmerLife & @thenation:
thisamericanlife.org/498/the-one-th… &
thenation.com/article/dreame…