Immigration

Feds Crack Down On Volunteers Helping Migrants Survive The Arizona Desert

August 25, 2018 Jorge Rivas, Colorlines.com Educate! Border, Immigration, Undocumented

Nine humanitarian volunteers with the group No More Deaths are facing federal charges after leaving water bottles for migrants in the Arizona desert. They are charged with misdemeanors for driving in a wilderness area, entering a wildlife refuge without a permit and abandonment of property. “The misdemeanor for abandonment of property was for leaving life-saving gallons of water, cans of beans, food, socks [and] blankets in areas of the desert—one of the deadliest areas of the southern border,” volunteer Geena Jackson told Colorlines. One No More Deaths volunteer, Scott Warren, is facing felony human-smuggling charges for allegedly providing two migrants with “food and water for approximately three days,” according to United States District Court of Arizona records. While unauthorized border crossings are actually at a 46-year low...

Recent Supreme Court Ruling Gums Up Immigration Courts

August 15, 2018 Amy Taxin, AP.org Resist! Immigration, Repression, Supreme Court, Undocumented

LOS ANGELES—Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs. The little-known ruling addressed what might seem like a narrow procedural issue over how to properly provide notices to immigrants to appear in court for deportation proceedings. But it is having broader implications in immigration courts that are in charge of deciding whether hundreds of thousands of people should be allowed to stay in the United States. Since the decision was issued in June, immigration attorneys have been asking judges to throw out their clients’ cases.

Abused Asylum-Seekers Launch Legal Battle Against ICE And Its “Concentration Camp” Prisons

August 14, 2018 By Elliott Gabriel, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Asylum, Detention Centers, ICE, Immigration, Prison Industrial Complex, Undocumented

ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA – A group of refugees from Central America, who faced beatings and abuse while detained at a California detention center last year, are pursuing legal action in hopes of drawing attention to the systematic abuse of migrants who are being confined in a growing network of concentration camp-style facilities across the United States. The civil rights lawsuit alleges that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau, for-profit prison operator GEO Group, and the City of Adelanto are responsible for “considerable damages” inflicted on the group of eight asylum-seekers, one of whom remains imprisoned. The notorious GEO Group — a multinational for-profit prison operator with nearly 150 prisons across the globe, and one of the largest contractors for ICE — has long been accused by human rights monitors of utterly neglecting the well-being of their detainees as they rake in billions in revenue.

United States: New Revelations About Children Separated From Parents

August 13, 2018 Barry Sheppard, Greenleft.org.au Educate! Deportations, Immigration, Undocumented

It is now abundantly clear that the Donald Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards parents with children seeking asylum in the US involves separating children from their parents, keeping the children in the US and deporting the parents. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that children in this situation would be placed in “foster care or whatever”. After a federal court ruling, the administration reversed course and said it would seek to reunite the children with their parents. It soon became clear that no records had been kept of which children belonged to which parents. DNA samples were taken in an attempt to organise reunifications. Many parents had already deported before Trump ordered the reunifications while their children remained in the US. The government admits that 463 parents fall into this category.

How Facebook’s Political AD Verification Policy Stifles Immigration Activists

August 10, 2018 Massoud Hayoun, Psmag.com Resist! Activists, Facebook, Immigration, Repression, Social Media, Undocumented

The social media company says it's working to resolve concerns that the policy will silence countless activists, particularly undocumented people decrying the Trump administration. Immigrant rights groups are demanding that Facebook rethink a new policy requiring political advertisers to submit their Social Security numbers, federal government identification, and addresses. The groups say the policy will inevitably block many from accessing the platform, particularly undocumented activists decrying the Trump administration's immigration practices. On Friday, a coalition of rights organizations lambasted Facebook's policies, which the company enacted in May in response to growing outcry over Russian interference in the 2016 election. "All the while Facebook clamps down on legitimate and non-political advocacy by immigrants and non-profit organizations, it has featured paid advertising by the Customs and Border Patrol agency for the past few months," the coalition's statement reads.

Tech Workers and Flight Attendants Resist Immigrant Family Separation

August 9, 2018 Chris Brooks, Labornotes.org Resist! Families, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

ICE depends on a lot of people's work, not just its agents'. Software engineers and flight attendants who took a stand added their efforts to a national push that got the Trump administration to suspend its family separation policy, Credit: Seattle Democratic Socialists of America. The brutal and wildly unpopular Trump administration policy that separated thousands of children from their immigrant parents triggered widespread protests. It also provoked resistance from workers whose jobs are crucial to carrying it out. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) don’t operate in a vacuum. They depend on a host of products and services—including technology produced by software engineers and travel assisted by flight attendants.

FBI Pressed Detained Anti-ICE Activist For Information On Protests, Offering Immigration Help

August 9, 2018 Cora Currier, Theintercept.com Resist! FBI, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

ON FRIDAY, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a longtime U.S. resident protesting against ICE in San Antonio, Texas, the FBI stepped in for an interrogation, telling the resident, 18-year-old Sergio Salazar, that his immigration status had been revoked because he was a “bad person.” The FBI agents asked him to inform on fellow protesters and said if he did so it could help his immigration case. “It seems evident that he was targeted here because of his involvement in the anti-ICE protests,” said Jonathan Ryan, Salazar’s lawyer from RAICES Texas, an immigrant advocacy group. “We’re very concerned about how directed and targeted and aggressive and quick this was.” ICE has been criticized for recent detentions and deportations of other activists, but little else has emerged that indicates an FBI interest in anti-ICE protests.

#OccupyICE Movement Grows Momentum In Colorado

August 8, 2018 Staff, Unicornriot.ninja Resist! Colorado, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

There was a rally of more than 100 people coinciding with the blockade, and providing water, food, songs and chants, and support to the blockade participants. The large crowd was met with militarized Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers and a team fitted for riot control. Around 6:00pm, a DHS officer began sawing off one PVC pipe at a time with a hand saw (none of the eight participants were injured during the sawing). After each individual was removed from the PVC pipes, they were cuffed with zip ties and placed into a transport vehicle. Supporters of the blockade participants expected the transport vehicle was heading to the Arapahoe County Detention Center. Instead, the transport vehicle drove a mile down the road and told the eight individuals they could leave after officers wrote up their citations and court summons. However, one of the eight refused to give the police any personal information.

Judge John D. Bates: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know

August 6, 2018 Kate Prengel, Heavy.com Resist! Courts, DACA, Immigration, Undocumented

John D Bates is the federal district judge who has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the DACA program within 20 days. DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the program that defers deportation for certain people who arrived illegally in the US as children. Last September, President Trump announced plans to end DACA. He also challenged Congress to write a new law that would allow DACA recipients to remain in the US legally. But after the White House annnounced its plans to phase out DACA, courts ordered the administration to continue accepting new DACA applicants. On Friday, the 72 year old Judge Bates said that the administration must fully re-instate DACA. But he gave the White House a 20 day window in which to appeal his decision.

Crew Walks Off Job After Racist Boss Fires Latino Coworkers: ‘We Rise Together Homie’

August 5, 2018 By Micah Uetricht, Jacobin Resist! Immigration, Racism, Solidarity, Worker Rights and Jobs

US labor history is full of moments of tremendous drama and upheaval. That history is riveting stuff, but getting a raw, unfiltered view of the human drama of workers fighting their bosses on the shop floor, the place where the day-to-day confrontation between workers and bosses takes place (and occasionally boils over), is rare. Which is what makes Antoine Dangerfield’s recent viral video a must-watch. A thirty-year-old welder in Indianapolis, Dangerfield worked for a construction contractor building a UPS hub. On Tuesday, he says that a small number of Latino workers (millwrights, welders, and conveyor installers, in his telling) working for a different contractor but in the same hub were ordered home after disobeying the orders of a white boss he calls racist.

Federal Court Of Appeals Rules Trump Order on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Is Illegal

August 5, 2018 Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press Resist! Immigration, Sanctuary Cities

President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold funding from “sanctuary cities” that limit cooperation with immigration authorities is unconstitutional, but a judge went too far when he blocked its enforcement nationwide, a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the order exceeded the president’s authority. “Absent congressional authorization, the administration may not redistribute or withhold properly appropriated funds in order to effectuate its own policy goals,” Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the majority.

Let Me Tell You What Forced Separation Feels Like

July 26, 2018 By Nicole Braun, Otherwords.org Educate! Detention Centers, Immigration, Nationalism, Undocumented

The recent images of immigrant children in cages are incredibly painful to digest. Still, many people seem to forget that the U.S. has a long track record of forcibly separating families, whether it was African Americans during slavery, the Japanese during World War II, Native Americans during colonization, or poor children whose “unfit” single mothers have lost custody today. Another common way families are forcibly separated? Juvenile detention. Tens of thousands of teens and pre-teens — most often the poor and people of color — are locked up in substandard, often privatized penal facilities. Children who go through these forced family separations often wind up experiencing trauma, grief, shame, and dehumanization.

At Rally Outside Jamie Dimon’s Home, Immigrant Rights Advocates Demand #BackersOfHate Stop Bankrolling For-Profit Prisons

July 26, 2018 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Divestment, Immigration, Prisons, Undocumented

"Private detention companies like CoreCivic and the Geo Group continue to be financed by Corporate #BackersofHate like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, who profit enormously from our communities' pain and the separation of families," read the event's Facebook page. JPMorgan Chase has loaned tens of millions of dollars to CoreCivic, as well as underwriting numerous multi-million dollar corporate bonds for the company. The bank also has at least $72 million invested in the Geo Group. Both for-profit prisons have government contracts under which they run immigrant detention facilities that have filled up in recent weeks with parents and children who have been forcibly separated under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

ICE: The Making Of An American Gestapo

July 24, 2018 By Justin Akers Chacón, Truthout.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

Another facet of ICE operations, immigrant detention, further illustrates the abysmal record of the agency and the depth of corruption that has penetrated into its very core. In 2018, ICE will spend more than $3.6 billion — about half its budget — on immigrant detention through contracting private, for-profit and “non-profit” jails and prisons. This is a billion-dollar increase from 2017, reflecting the speculative boom in immigrant incarceration anticipated for Trump’s second year in office. In the war on immigrants, the detention industry has sprouted in the role of camp follower, swelling through generous ICE contracts and guaranteed revenue arrangements, and protected by deregulation. Currently, ICE operates or licenses an estimated 51,000 detention beds spread out over a vast and subterranean network of hundreds of detention facilities (estimated to be as many as 637 in 2015), almost three-quarters of which are currently contracted out to private companies.

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