Deportations

More Than 200 Civil Rights Groups Ask Congress To Decriminalize Border Crossings

July 4, 2019 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Create! Democrats, Deportations, Immigration, Trump

Immigrant rights defenders signed on to a letter to Congressional leaders demanding the end of Clinton-era enforcement rules that criminalize crossing the border. The letter published below demands the reversal of immigration enforcement measures signed into law by Bill Clinton back in 1996, which critics view as the beginning of a major buildup of the detention and deportation systems. The 240 groups also called for an end to immigrant detention without bail, halting automatic deportations of people based on criminal convictions, and disentangling immigration enforcement from local policing. The law making illegal entry a misdemeanor and subsequent violations a felony is nearly 100 years old. It was authored by a segregationist Democratic Senator, Coleman Blease of South Carolina in 1929.

Interfaith Leaders Block Access To ICE Office

July 3, 2019 Editor, Milwaukee Independent. Resist! Abolish ICE, Deportations, Immigration

A group of 31 ministers, rabbis, and religious leaders blocked the garage doors of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Milwaukee on June 24, to resist the latest threats by President Trump to hold immigration raids that targeted refugee families. The Administration’s continued policies of separating families at the border and imprisoning people seeking asylum has been routinely condemned as brutal, subjecting vulnerable children to inhumane conditions. At the Milwaukee protest, more than one thousand people rallied in the streets surrounding the ICE building, at times blocking traffic. Hundreds of delegates from the United Church of Christ (UCC) from all over the country, who were visiting Milwaukee for their General Synod, marched from the Wisconsin Center to the ICE building.

Thought Police: US, Israel Increasingly Banning & Deporting Ideological Enemies

April 22, 2019 Andrew Cheetham, Davidicke.com Resist! Deportations, Israel, Repression, US Imperialism

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON — Israel and the U.S. are simultaneously stepping up repression in the form of travel restrictions against critics of the apartheid state. A Palestinian activist has been barred from entering the U.S. while an advocate with a leading human rights NGO – Human Rights Watch (HRW) – faced a ruling on Tuesday in Israeli courts which upheld the government’s deportation order against him. Last week, the U.S. banned a founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, one Omar Barghouti, from entering its soil. Though the government’s official explanation was “immigration reasons,” there is plentiful evidence to suspect the ban was meant as a reprisal for his non-violent advocacy.

Stopping The Deportation Machine

February 11, 2019 Alexandra Reza, Dissentmagazine.org Resist! Deportations, Immigration, Undocumented

One night in March 2017, fifteen activists climbed through a hole they had cut in the perimeter fence of London Stansted Airport and attached themselves to an airplane to prevent it from taking off. The plane was about to take one of the secretive night flights that the UK government uses to deport people. This practice has been roundly condemned by campaigners and lawyers as violent, distressing, unjust, and barely legal. The group knew that a number of people due to board the plane, which was bound for West Africa, were in serious danger. During their night on the tarmac, they read messages by some of the deportees from Detained Voices, a blog that posts testimonies from people held in detention centers.

In 2019, Let’s Resolve To Organize With Love In The Face Of Apocalypse

January 2, 2019 Adrienne Maree Brown, Truthout.org Strategize! Deportations, Prisons

This is a time to let love guide each step, but it doesn’t seem like that. It seems like time to obsess over how bad it all is. It’s really bad. It’s a hard time for those who have to think in terms of short-term conditions — of surviving deportation, prison, attacks on our personhood. Watching a caravan of displaced people approach our border, as families are violently separated and children are traumatized there; watching as members of our community are killed by police; watching as the language of trans identity is threatened out of existence… it can feel hard to see what we can do that will matter.

Trump Administration To Immediately Deport New Central American Asylum Seekers To Mexico

December 24, 2018 By Eric London, Countercurrents.org Educate! Asylum, Caravan, Central America, Deportations, Immigration, Mexico, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

The Trump administration announced a new policy that effectively guts the right of asylum for refugees from Central America. From now on, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin expelling non-Mexican refugees as soon as they have made application for asylum after crossing the US-Mexico border. They will be immediately deported to Mexico instead of being allowed to stay in the US pending the adjudication of their asylum claims. The Mexican government, taking its orders from Washington, will not oppose these deportations or bring any legal action against the United States for a policy that is in flagrant violation of international law. Its only concession to the refugees is that Mexico will not confine them in US-style detention camps.

Samuel Oliver-Bruno Kidnapped By ICE: Sanctuary Is Disobedience

November 29, 2018 Anonymous, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, North Carolina

The biggest sale this year for Black Friday is deportation. As millions gathered around tables and screens, celebrating their families and purchases, we the folks of North Carolina are in mourning. On Friday morning, August 23rd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) set a biometric trap for Samuel Oliver-Bruno. After eleven months of living in the basement of City Well Church in Durham, advocating for “prosecutorial discretion,” Samuel Oliver-Bruno unsettled sanctuary and left for an immigration appointment in nearby Morrisville. Held by clergy and spirited warriors, Samuel walked into the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office where he was besieged by officers. His son, Daniel, was swept into a mangle of arms and charged with assaulting an officer.

Unions Can Protect Workers From Deportation. This Coalition Of 3.5 Million Is Showing How.

October 20, 2018 Heather Gis, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Class Struggle, Deportations, Unions, Workers

After more than two decades living, working, and building a family in the United States, Cesar Rodriguez feels his life is in limbo. The driver for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach from El Salvador is one of more than 300,000 immigrants at risk of losing their temporary legal status in the U.S. after the Trump administration scrapped the program for a handful of countries. “I’m a trucker, and I make my living with my license. Without my license, I lose my job,” Rodriguez told In These Times. “If I lose my job, I would lose everything—even my family, because I wouldn’t have a way to support them.” Rodriguez arrived in the United States in 1996.

The Crackdown On Sanctuary Cities Gives Birth To ‘Freedom Cities’

September 22, 2018 By Adam Edelman, Nbcnews.com Create! Class Struggle, Deportations, Immigration, Repression, Revisionism, Sanctuary Movement

Advocates for undocumented immigrants believe they've found a new — and legal — way to skirt deportation efforts. If Attorney General Jeff Sessions is waging war to dismantle sanctuary cities, imagine how he feels about "freedom cities." Austin, Texas, became the latest major city to declare itself a "freedom city" in June, when the city council passed resolutions instructing the city's police officers to arrest fewer people for minor crimes like possessing a small amount of marijuana and driving without a valid license, as well as taking steps to protect undocumented immigrants. "Freedom city policies are basically an expansion of the old sanctuary city policies," said Austin Council member Greg Casar, who helped write the resolutions. "They pick up where sanctuary policies were cut off."

United States: New Revelations About Children Separated From Parents

August 13, 2018 Barry Sheppard, Greenleft.org.au Educate! Deportations, Immigration, Undocumented

It is now abundantly clear that the Donald Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards parents with children seeking asylum in the US involves separating children from their parents, keeping the children in the US and deporting the parents. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that children in this situation would be placed in “foster care or whatever”. After a federal court ruling, the administration reversed course and said it would seek to reunite the children with their parents. It soon became clear that no records had been kept of which children belonged to which parents. DNA samples were taken in an attempt to organise reunifications. Many parents had already deported before Trump ordered the reunifications while their children remained in the US. The government admits that 463 parents fall into this category.

ICE: The Making Of An American Gestapo

July 24, 2018 By Justin Akers Chacón, Truthout.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

Another facet of ICE operations, immigrant detention, further illustrates the abysmal record of the agency and the depth of corruption that has penetrated into its very core. In 2018, ICE will spend more than $3.6 billion — about half its budget — on immigrant detention through contracting private, for-profit and “non-profit” jails and prisons. This is a billion-dollar increase from 2017, reflecting the speculative boom in immigrant incarceration anticipated for Trump’s second year in office. In the war on immigrants, the detention industry has sprouted in the role of camp follower, swelling through generous ICE contracts and guaranteed revenue arrangements, and protected by deregulation. Currently, ICE operates or licenses an estimated 51,000 detention beds spread out over a vast and subterranean network of hundreds of detention facilities (estimated to be as many as 637 in 2015), almost three-quarters of which are currently contracted out to private companies.

From Occupation To Community: The Lessons From OccupyICE Portland

July 4, 2018 Rob Reimetz, Counterpunch.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Occupation, Portland

I remember visiting the the OccupyICEPDX encampment during its first week in Portland, Oregon in which activists successfully shut down the local I.C.E. Facility. I was able to have conversations with several activists and assist in carrying heavy items around the camp. The activists told me what made this occupation so successful was once they decided to commit to setting up an encampment around the facility their numbers grew quickly. These rise in numbers is what has helped sustain the occupation. This first visit to me felt like an occupation. Building was still being done, many items were still needed for the camp, and teams in the camp were recently established. But something else was coinciding with this occupation. Something that we can all learn from, it was not until my visit to the camp on June 30th for the nightly vigil that I realized what these lessons were.

Immigration Lawyer Recounts Conversation With Obama About Border Crisis That He Says ‘Shook Me To My Core’

June 22, 2018 Bryan Logan, Businessinsider.com Educate! Border, Deportations, Immigration, Undocumented

An immigration lawyer on Monday sought to add some context to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy drawing criticism over its practice of separating children from adults they're traveling with who are caught crossing the US-Mexico border illegally. R. Andrew Free argued on Twitter that the fallout from the sounds and images from locations along the southern US border and detention centers where migrants are being held were an extension of practices that began under President Barack Obama. The lawyer recounted a 2015 exchange with Obama, during which Free said he implored the president to close two detention centers in southern Texas out of concern for the women and children being held there.

Trump Executive Order Makes Border Crisis Worse

June 21, 2018 Staff, Nilc.org Educate! Border, Deportations, Executive Order, Immigration, Nationalism, Trump Administration, Undocumented

WASHINGTON — President Trump has signed an executive order mandating that families be jailed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security or Defense. This order will likely have the effect of jailing, for months or even years, immigrant families seeking safety in the U.S. The National Immigration Law Center has long decried the practice of jailing immigrant families, filing lawsuits when necessary to defend their rights. Below is a statement from Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, who visited family detention facilities in 2014: “The Trump administration has created a crisis and committed horrific human rights abuses by separating children from their parents at the border. Clearly on the defense, today it used a political sleight of hand to try to placate Americans who have been rightly outraged by their government’s repugnant policies, including separating children and babies from their parents and housing them in cages.

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