On this #HolocaustRemembranceDay please know that ‘border security’ means pushing refugees back to harm and death, & putting them in detention camps where they are called by their ‘alien number’ rather than their names. #NeverAgainIsNow Asylum was created after the holocaust, to ensure that people fleeing persecution had the right to cross borders and ask for protection. By closing our borders to refugees, we dishonor the memories of those killed in concentration camps after being turned away from our borders

If you are mad about #FamilySeparation then you need to stand against expanded expedited removal, which lets ICE snatch immigrants from our communities and deport them with zero due process. Guarantee that many kids will lose their parents to this policy

https://twitter.com/camiloreports/status/1319016232297922564

Expanded expedited removal makes ICE the prosecutor, judge, and executioner. It’s like having the police officer who arrested you find you guilty without a judge or defense atty. It’s incredibly dangerous for immigrants and citizens alike

Even if we could find all 545 parents, it doesn’t mean they would be reunified. @AlOtroLado_Org represents almost all parents deported without their kids and they have almost no rights under the Ms L settlement. The govt has done everything possible to keep them apart

https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1318679776144420865

Also, it’s no surprise we can’t find these parents. 2017 separations weren’t included in the initial Ms L class, despite on the ground advocates begging for them to be included. @JusticeInMotion wasn’t tasked with looking for them until 2019! Of course it’s hard

Hey, journalists covering the #migrantcaravan - Can you ask the migrants how they found out about the caravan? In 2018, right before the US midterm elections, many migrants were lured into participating by a fake Facebook account.... buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/kenben… After having seen half a dozen caravans come through Tijuana prior to 11/2018, I believe that caravan was, in part, orchestrated to affect the US elections and increase repression against migrants and the attorneys and others who offer assistance

As anticipated, McAleenan’s planned remarks were BS so we didn’t miss anything. However, this point particularly irked me...it’s NOT a good thing that Mexico has deployed the national guard to its borders. Living on an insanely militarized border is a daily exercise in terror In my daily work, I pass through several militarized checkpoints, staffed by masked soldiers holding high-caliber assault rifles who can arbitrarily decide to search or detain you. There is no due process if you are stopped and I’m not even sure where you would be taken

Thanks for everyone who showed support for my bond hearing to free our disabled client at Otay Mesa. I want to give an update, but the detained docket was so wild that I’m going to take my inspiration from @ScottHech and drop a THREAD: First up, the judge had to conflict out of a review of a negative reasonable fear finding. She had been an ICE trial attorney for over a decade, and had helped deport the man who had returned to the border to seek protection. MOST judges I know used to work for DHS or were AUSAs

I’m in #Calexico working with 17 parents who were separated from their kids and deported without them. These 17 parents were among the 29 who returned to the US on 3/2 to reunify with their children and seek asylum. They are STILL detained They are all STILL separated from their children. ICE won’t consider their release until they pass their Credible Fear Interviews, yet Asylum HQ ordered that they NOT schedule the interviews for weeks! We had to ask members of Congress to intervene