Deportations

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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