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Immigrant Organizer: ‘Walk With Me’

February 26, 2017 Renee Feltz, www.indypendent.org Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Sanctuary Cities

By Renee Feltz for The indypendent. On March 9, Trinidadian immigrant Ravi Ragbir is scheduled to appear for his annual check-in with a deportation officer at the federal building in lower Manhattan. “I will go in,” he says. “Even though I suspect this may be the day I won’t be coming out.” No matter what happens, he will not go alone. “You can easily disappear,” he notes.” So it’s best to have people witness.” Ragbir knows the power of accompaniment. As executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC, he has worked to connect members of 30 congregations, faith communities and other groups with hundreds of undocumented immigrants seeking refuge and support.

Privatization Of Prisons Gets New Life Under Sessions Order

February 25, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, ICE, Immigration, Prisons, Private Prisons

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. One of the ugliest policies in the move to privatize public services has been the private prison industry. We have reported on the abuses of private prisons, riots at them and how they put profit ahead of prisoners as these shocking photos show. The private prison industry is a corrupting influence in US politics. We have reported on how "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" and how they are getting wealthy abusing immigrants. Corporations are turning the US justice system into a profit making venture at every step in the process. This decision to continue to use private prisons by the Trump administration ensures that the profit of private prisons will come before treating prisoners humanely. The trend toward corporate profiteering from what is becoming a prison-industrial complex will continue. Injustice will thrive while justice is diminished.

FSU Students Create Sanctuary Campus

February 23, 2017 SDS Tally, www.popularresistance.org Create! Education, ICE, Immigration, Sanctuary Cities

By Students for a Democratic Society Tallahassee. “We are very glad to see our efforts were rewarded tonight, after weeks collecting over 700 petition signatures and campaigning on campus. However, the fight is not over. We need the FSU administration and President John Thrasher to acknowledge our referendum and declare FSU a sanctuary campus. Immigrants on campus are uncertain about their futures and worried about how Trump’s policies will affect them. Declaring our campus a sanctuary is the first step to showing that immigrants are cared for and will be protected here” said Katherine Draken, President of the FSU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.

Trump Targets Millions For Deportation, Bans Millions Of Refugees

February 22, 2017 Nikhil Agarwal, www.AP.org, www.AP.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration

By Nikhil Agarwal for AP - Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation - including people simply arrested for traffic violations - under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration. Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offense, or even suspected of a crime, will now be an enforcement priority, according to Homeland Security Department memos signed by Secretary John Kelly. That could include people arrested for shoplifting or minor offenses - or simply having crossed the border illegally. The Trump administration memos replace more narrow guidance focusing on immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes, are considered threats to national security or are recent border crossers.

Deportation Resistance Builds Across Borders

February 14, 2017 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Deportation, ICE, Immigration, Strike

By Deirdre Fulton for CommonDreams. More than 120 businesses are closed in Wisconsin on Monday to protest Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's immigration crackdown. From work strikes to legal campaigns, multiple efforts have been mounted to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, which has instilled fear and panic in communities across the United States. Recent raids have impacted "nearly 200 people in the Carolinas and Georgia, more than 150 in and around Los Angeles, and around 40 in New York," according to the Associated Press on Sunday. Raids also reportedly took place in Arizona and Chicago. President Donald Trump on Saturday said the raids were "merely the keeping of my campaign promise."

Immigrants, Allies Denounce First Round Of Deportations

February 12, 2017 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Trump

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group. Hundreds of people showed up at the White House on Feb. 11 to denounce the Trump administration’s series of raids in recent days that targeted undocumented immigrants across the country, including in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Among the hundreds of people arrested in the raids were many with no criminal records. As part of President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe policy strategy during his first three weeks in office, the raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are creating uncertainty and fear in immigrant communities. Through traffic checkpoints and raids on people’s homes and workplaces, ICE agents, in collaboration with local police forces in some cases, have detained hundreds of people, including 200 immigrants in Georgia, 160 in Los Angeles and 44 in Austin, Texas.

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.

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