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November 10, 2016 Staff, www.socialistalternative.org Strategize! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Deportations, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Socialist Alternative - The victory of Donald Trump is being met with shock, fear, and anger. Especially for immigrants, muslims, people of color, women, and other oppressed people who Trump has singled out for attack, the question of how to defend themselves against the coming attacks is sharply posed. A wave of demonstrations is being organized across the country to fight back against Trump. These protests must be the beginning of coordinated nationwide mobilizations to organize millions into a massive grassroots movement.

Formerly Incarcerated Immigrant Describes Harsh Life On Inside

September 8, 2016 Rebekah Barber, www.truth-out.org Organize! Deportations, Detention Centers, Immigration

By Rebekah Barber for Facing South - When the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that it was divesting from private prisons after they were found to be more dangerous than publicly run facilities, immigrant advocates hailed the groundbreaking decision. However, the move would affect only 13 prisons, as most private prisons are run not by the DOJ but by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Immigrant advocacy groups immediately called on DHS to follow suit.

Black Lives Matter Is Joining The Fight Against Deportations

August 11, 2016 Jorge Rivas, www.fusion.net Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Deportations, Immigration

By Jorge Rivas for Fusion - The Black Lives Matter movement this week announced it has adopted a 10-point platform that includes a call to end all deportations. It could be a game changer. Black Lives Matter, which started as a hashtag in 2013, has quickly evolved into a leading civil rights movement that until this week has mainly focused on policing issues that affect the black community. But on Monday the movement adopted a more comprehensive platform developed by the Movement for Black Lives, which has a list of demands, including a call for an “end to the war on Black immigrants.”

Deportation System’s ‘Lock-up Quota’ Is Just As Bad as It Sounds

July 15, 2016 Michelle Chen, www.thenation.com Educate! Deportations, Immigration

By Michelle Chen for The Nation - Law enforcement is in the business of dealing with insecurity. But the one thing that’s always secure about America’s law-enforcement system is the number of immigrants it imprisons each day. The government has written into law the number of non-citizens it seeks to deprive of freedom at any given moment: 34,000. A study by Detention Watch Network (DWN) and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) explores the social impacts of the perverse incentive of the so-called “lockup quota” of 34,000 designated “beds” for immigrant detainees.

Teachers Protest Deportations, Detention Of Refugee Students

July 8, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Barack Obama, Deportations, Detention Centers, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Refugees

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - It was the first presidential campaign event in which Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama appeared together. The Charlotte Observer ran a headline that suggested Clinton found her “roar” during the event in Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite the momentous occasion, teachers and students were there to protest Obama’s record on deportations and demand Clinton and Obama release refugee youth, who are currently jailed by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Atlanta Campaign Demands Immigration Reform

July 6, 2016 Paul McLennan, Azadeh Shahshahani, and Adelina Nicholls, www.alternet.org Resist! Atlanta, Deportations, Detention Centers, Immigration

By Paul McLennan, Azadeh Shahshahani, and Adelina Nicholls for AlterNet - On June 15, coordinated actions were held across the world including in Atlanta, seeking justice for Berta Caceres, an indigenous human rights and environmental justice activist who was assassinated in Honduras on March 3. Several of those charged with her murder have ties to the Honduran military, including at least one high-ranking officer who reportedly was trained by U.S. Rangers. At the Atlanta action, we also drew attention to the recent ICE raids that have targeted women and children fleeing horrific persecution, rape, murder, and torture in Central American countries such as Honduras, who were seeking a safe haven in this country.

Private Prisons Making Deals To Lock Up More Immigrant Women & Children

June 29, 2016 Sarah Lazare, www.alternet.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Private Prisons

By Sarah Lazare for AlterNet - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention centers. The 2009 congressional mandate for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep a minimum of 34,000 people minimum locked up at any given time is already well-established. But a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Detention Watch Network reveals that this federal quota rests, in part, on aggressive deals with companies in the business of locking up families.

Faith Leaders Take Prophetic Action To Stop ICE Raids, Deportations

March 25, 2016 Guillermo Torres and Armando Carmona, www.facebook.com Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Protests

By Guillermo Torres for CLUE and Armando Carmona for NDLON - Los Angeles, CA - Wednesday afternoon, 21 faith leaders from various religious traditions were arrested blocking the road outside the U.S. federal court in downtown Los Angeles. Outraged by the continuous raids and deportations terrorizing the immigrant community, the faith leaders participated in this prophetic action during Holy Week just outside the very courtroom where Central American children are defending their cases.

More Than 1,000 Protesters Prepping For Obama Summit

February 11, 2016 Brett Kelman, Anna Rumer and Rosalie Murphy, www.desertsun.com Resist! Asia, Barack Obama, Deportations, Protests, TPP

By Brett Kelman, Anna Rumer and Rosalie Murphy for The Desert Sun - Protests have been planned over Obama’s aggressive deportation policy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and the dreadful human rights records of some of the visiting nations, according to protest organizers, who estimated how many people will show up. The largest confirmed demonstrations will oppose the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments, but authoritarian leaders from other nations will likely be met with opposition also. Protester groups said they will stand united against the oppression and corruption that is rampant throughout the governments of Southeast Asia.

Minneapolis HS Students Walk Out To Protest ICE & Deportations

January 22, 2016 Brad Sigal, www.fightbacknews.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Student Protests

By Brad Sigal for Fight Back! News - Minneapolis, MN - Students from at least 12 Minneapolis and suburban high schools walked out of school, Jan. 20. at noon to protest the current wave of immigration raids and deportations happening around the country. After walking out, the students converged at Martin Luther King Park in south Minneapolis for food and an open mic where students spoke about their experience with family members and friends being deported. Students then left the park and marched down major Minneapolis streets including Nicollet Avenue and Lake Street.

Immigrant Advocates Take Action Following Deportation Raids In South

January 20, 2016 Staff, www.southernstudies.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, United States

By Staff of the Institute for Southern Studies - The first week of the new year brought hope and cheer for some. But for many Southern immigrant communities, it brought fear. News of the Department of Homeland Security's plans to conduct immigrant deportation raids at the outset of 2016 circulated just before the Christmas holiday, and the first raids got underway this past weekend. They are part of the Obama administration's efforts to stem a wave of women and children who have arrived in the U.S. since 2014, many fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American countries.

In The Face Of ICE Raids, Know Your Rights

January 11, 2016 Staff, www.assatassyllabus.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, United States

By Staff of Immigrant Defense Project - The enforcement strategy and priorities that the administration has articulated are not going to change,’ White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday. ‘Individuals who recently crossed the border are priorities for removal.’” In the face of these raids, we are sharing this ‘Know Your Rights’ manual from Assata’s Syllabus.

NYPD Breaks Up Pro-Immigration Protest

January 9, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Deportations, Human Rights, Immigration

By Staff of RT - Activists opposed to the US authorities rounding up and deporting immigrants have organized a protest outside the Immigration Court in New York City, bringing a busy district of lower Manhattan to a standstill. Dozens of protesters blocked the intersection of Varick and Houston Streets in lower Manhattan, where the Immigration Court for New York City is located. They are carrying signs protesting the recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), rounding up over a hundred people who were in the US illegally.

13 Arrested Outside Obama’s White House Protesting ‘Deporter-in-Chief’

April 29, 2014 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Deportations, Immigrant Rights

A group of thirteen women activists were arrested outside the White House on Monday morning protesting against families being torn apart by the Obama administration's aggressive deportation policies. Over a thousand demonstrators with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the anti-deportation group Not 1 More, among others, marched to the White House before the women were arrested for staging a sit-in on the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalk. "In 11 million households across the U.S., children are missing their fathers, women are left with the difficult task of raising families without their partners, and the deep connections between members in mixed status families and communities are severed," the demonstrators wrote in a statement ahead of the action. "These numbers continue to grow as the current deportation crisis tears apart 1,100 more families each day." As one speaker explained during the protest, the Obama administration's strategy has been: "Deport the man, the family will follow."

Activists Chain Themselves, Challenge Immigrant Crises

October 15, 2013 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Deportations, Human Rights, Immigration

Immigration reform activists chained themselves outside a detention facility in Arizona on Monday continuing of a campaign of civil disobedience that calls for an end to inhumane incarceration and deportations that plague the current national immigration system. The action targeted the Corrections Corporation of American (CCA)-owned Eloy Detention Center and was part of the NotOneMoreDeportation campaign, a collaborative project of theNational Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). The Obama administration has deported a record number of people, and Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the NDLON, says this is a "human rights crisis." “I know Republicans are blocking immigration reform but it’s President Obama who has the power to stop deportations,” Alvarado told NBC Latino. “If they did it with the students, now they can do it with the parents.”

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