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People Take To Streets In Resistance As ICE Raids Descend On Los Angeles

February 11, 2017 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Los Angeles

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - Three weeks after President Donald Trump's inauguration, ICE reportedly detained over 100 people in Los Angeles in only three hours. Protesters took to the streets in Los Angeles on Thursday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly raided homes and communities around the city and detained over 100 people in a mere three hours. Reflecting the growing community-level resistance to President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, protesters chanted "not one more deportation!" in front of an ICE detention center and later formed a human chain in the street...

Private Prison In Ohio Makes Room For 2000 ICE Detainees

December 20, 2016 César, www.crimmigration.com Educate! Detention Centers, ICE, Immigration, Ohio, Private Prisons, Undocumented

By César for CrImmigration - Yesterday, CoreCivic, the new name for the Corrections Corporation of America, announced a new contract with ICE to imprison thousands of migrants in Ohio. CoreCivic/CCA will operate 2,016 beds for ICE at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center. CoreCivic/CCA already holds approximately 600 migrants at the same facility on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service. While people being held on behalf of ICE are generally awaiting immigration court hearings, those held on behalf of USMS are held pending federal criminal prosecution. This represents another instance in which ICE helps boost the bottom line for private prison corporations.

Activists On Both Sides Of Border Converge Against State Violence

October 9, 2016 Steve Pavey, www.truthout.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, Mexico, United States

By Steve Pavey for TruthOut. U.S.-Mexico Border - After holding an annual vigil for 25 years at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, the human rights group SOA Watch is moving its convergence to the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico. Activists throughout the US and Mexico have gathered on both sides of the US-Mexico border for an October 7-10 Border Convergence to highlight and protest US state policies linked to the root causes of migration, as well as to multiple levels of violence against migrants and more broadly, against Black and Latinx people. People from Latin America continue to be forced to flee from US-trained repressive security forces, only to be confronted with a militarized border, racist immigration laws and the xenophobic rhetoric we see escalating during this election cycle.

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.

Pastors Condemn ICE Tactics To Deport Immigrants

March 30, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, Protests

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Max Villatoro, the pastor of a small Mennonite church in Iowa, may seem like an unlikely target for immigration agents who say they’re focused on tracking down criminals. But his family just celebrated the grim first anniversary of his deportation back to Honduras. “It has been devastating for our family and kids,” Gloria Villatoro told ThinkProgress, her voice cracking under the strain of recounting her husband’s deportation from the United States last March. “My kids don’t have their father anymore. My girls… have to see a therapist every week.”

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.

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.

Trans & Cis Woman Stop Seattle Traffic Over Deportation Center

August 4, 2015 Not1More, www.notonemoredeportation.com Educate! Deportation, ICE, Immigration, Seattle

By Not1More - “Trans and/or Women’s Action Camp (TWAC)” in solidarity with NWDC Resistance and the Not1More movement to end detentions and deportations, at this moment is doing a civil disobedience action to bring attention to ICE presence in downtown Seattle.TWAC will be calling attention to ICE, located on 1000 Second Ave where they have a large presence and headquarters, and their local quota that guarantees a minimum of 800 beds to be filled at the immigration jail in Tacoma (aka Northwest Detention Center) operated by Geo group corporation. This quota is built into the contract between ICE Seattle and Geo and motivates the agency to round up immigrants in the area. The contract fuels the recent anti-immigrant politics in Congress that exposes the real intentions of Republicans and Democrats who both introduce and pass bills to scapegoat immigrants and exploit family tragedies.

5 Arrested In Lumpkin During Stewart Detention Center Protest

November 24, 2014 Naomi Keitt, www.wrbl.com Resist! Human Rights, ICE, Mass Incarceration

Five human rights activists were arrested Saturday morning as they protested at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. For 8 years, hundreds of protesters have called for the closure of one the largest immigrant detention centers in the country. This year, five activists were arrested trying to get their voices heard. It was a silent message that spoke volumes as five activists crossed a restricted line and were arrested in Lumpkin Saturday morning. One of those activists was Anton Flores. "Right now in the United States, there are 34,000 immigrants that are detained in detention centers around the United States. We want to see that number decrease and we want to see this facility shut down," said Anton Flores.

Immigrants’ Rights Groups Sue US Government

August 30, 2014 Michael Oleaga , www.latinpost.com Resist! ACLU, ICE, Immigration

National immigrants' rights groups are suing the U.S. government over claims of lack of due process for "scores" of Central American women and children at the Artesia immigrant detention facility in New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council, National Immigration Law Center, and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild announced their lawsuit in response to what they say is a failure of immigration laws. The national immigrants' rights groups claimed the federal government has denied fair deportation processes for mothers and children, notably in Artesia. American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project Director Cecillia Wang said the purpose of the lawsuit is to "challenge" the U.S. government's procedures on policing immigrants, saying they are trying to deport them "as soon as possible." Wang said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's message to immigrants was "We will send you back" to their native countries, despite the ongoing difficulties happening at home. Wang said their immigrant clients have "repeatedly" been told by border patrol that they will be deported. An immigratio

Photos From Milwaukee Demo Against ICE

May 31, 2014 Nicolas Lampert, www.justseeds.org Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Protest

Yesterday Voces de la Frontera organized a demo in front of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in Milwaukee to protest the recent rash of arrests in Milwaukee - at least a dozen undocumented people taken from their homes and workplaces by MPD and ICE. The demo itself was heart wrenching: listening to teenagers speak of the pain of having a father arrested and the uncertainty that this brings. For it is a basic human rights violation to tear apart families and the Obama Administration is falling on the wrong side of history with their draconian responses to immigration issues. Like all Voces demos this one included multiple banners and posters. Josiah Werning designed the "Have You Seen My Dad" image the day before the demo. John Fleissner, Josiah, and the YES crew were at our studio space screening the images and they also took some of my "Imagine No Borders" posters for the demo. Additionally Paul Kjelland's banners of Obama and the Voces logo were on hand.

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