Deportations

ICE Raids, Asylum Seekers And The Othering Of People Of Color

July 22, 2019 Preeti Vissa Kristipati, Greenlining.org Educate! Asylum, Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

Like many of you, I’ve watched the reports and rumors of expected ICE raids, images of adults and children in U.S. concentration camps and the attacks on asylum seekers with horror. The large-scale ICE raids that officials have hinted at haven’t yet materialized as I write this, but they’ve succeeded in what may have been their real objective: terrorizing immigrant communities. Central and South Americans seem to be mainly in the crosshairs, but they’re far from the only ones.

Intersectional Raids, Calls For More Pipelines & A Creative Mind

July 18, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Deportations, ICE, Pipelines, Prison Industrial Complex

If someone in your neighborhood is going on a rampage killing a bunch of neighbors and burying them in his backyard to the point that he's running out of room – do you say, well geez Bob, this is really a problem of mass grave space? What this metaphor has to do with pipelines, media literacy and creative resistance. Next up: ICE raids and the vital intersections between workers rights, migrant rights and the prison industrial complex. Finally, Ana Tiffany Devez sits down to talk about the past, present and future of fighting and building in El Paso.

As ICE Raids Begin, Advocates Remind Immigrants That ‘You Have Rights’

July 15, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

"I can only imagine the fear our immigrant communities feel this morning." Long-feared ICE raids began quietly over the weekend as the agency moved slowly to lead off what's expected to be several days of actions targeting families as part of President Donald Trump's war on immigrants. Plans for the raids were made public on July 11. Reporting from The New York Times revealed the scope of the planned raids—targeting 10 cities and thousands of families—and President Donald Trump, in a tweet, confirmed the operation.

Thousands Protest Concentration Camps At Vigils Across The US

July 14, 2019 World Socialist Website. Resist! Abolish ICE, Deportations, ICE Raids, Immigration

Two days before the largest immigration raid in US history, thousands of people in over 700 cities held vigils and protests yesterday to voice their anger at the mass imprisonment and brutal treatment of immigrants at concentration camps. The vigils were an international event, with at least one event taking place in every US state and across five continents. The protests show that there is broad popular opposition to Trump’s fascistic attacks on immigrants. They were organized after reports of standing room only cells, Customs and Border Protection officials denying children toothbrushes and diapers, and the drowning of a father and his young daughter at the US-Mexico border sparked international outrage.

Immigration Rights Demonstrators Sit-In At Biden’s Headquarters

July 14, 2019 Adam Hermann, Philly Voice. Resist! Deportations, Immigration, Obama, presidential elections

Six participants in a sit-in at Joe Biden's Centre Square campaign headquarters in Center City were arrested Wednesday afternoon, after hours of protests and demands for an apology from the former vice president of the United States. Movimiento Cosecha, an immigrant rights advocacy group, organized the sit-in protest at Biden's headquarters and was seeking an apology from the Democratic presidential hopeful for the deportation of 3 million immigrants during President Barack Obama's presidency.

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."

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