Immigration

Why They Risked Everything To Occupy ICE

July 6, 2018 By Will Bunch, Philly.com Resist! ICE, Immigration, Occupation, Philadelphia, Undocumented

On Tuesday, Philadelphia police arrested 24-year-old Jameson Rush, gave him — along with 28 others who had been part of an encampment seeking to shut down a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, office in the city — a citation, and told him that if he got arrested there again he’d be taken to jail and face more serious charges. But as a searing July sun was turning the 8th Street pavement into a convection oven on Thursday morning, Rush — a barista who moved to Philadelphia from northern California last year — was back out there in his bright green safety vest, even though he was exhausted from only getting about one hour of sleep in a small folding chair the night before.

#AbolishICE: Protesters Call Out ‘Profiteers’ And Localities Working With ICE In Virginia

July 6, 2018 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! ICE, Immigration, Profit, Protests, Virginia

About a hundred people protested at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Fairfax County, Va. today, saying that the agency inflicts violence on immigrant families and communities. They demanded that Members of Congress cut off funding for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and revert the money back to their communities. They also accused Delegate Alphonso Lopez, a state elected official, of profiting off of a Virginia detention center and charged that certain Virginia counties were collaborating with ICE in the harassment and incarceration of immigrants. This protest follows many others around the country at ICE facilities. Intense outrage has erupted since it was revealed that children have been ripped from their parents at borders and held separately from them as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.

‘Occupy ICE’ Movement Spreads Across Cities Nationwide

July 6, 2018 Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! ICE, Immigration, Occupation

SAN FRANCISCO — Protests outside the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been cropping up in cities across the country in recent weeks, with demonstrators calling for abolishing the agency. In San Francisco, a small group of about a dozen people were stationed outside the local ICE offices in the downtown on Thursday, amid about two dozen tents and signs reading “F**k ICE” and “Defend the criminalized.” A large banner hanging across the street read “Abolish borders.” “We are here because we are, and are in solidarity with, undocumented immigrants,” an organizer at the protest, who asked to remain anonymous, told HuffPost. “We are calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

A Tale Of Two Protests

July 6, 2018 Robert Feuer, Counterpunch.org Resist! Children, Detention Centers, Immigration, Protests

This past week I traveled to El Paso, Texas with the Albuquerque Teachers Federation to protest the detaining of children from immigrant families. The first day’s events featured speakers from all the Abrahamic religions. Quoting passages from holy text, the theological speakers denounced inhumane policies that were designed to traumatize their victims in what appears to be cruelty for cruelty sake. The aim was clear for the righteous representatives of their faith, that they have the moral high ground; all supported by the words of God or any one of the many prophets. The fence to the facility was open and members of the group that had come to the rally were conversing with the guards. It was a kumbaya moment as the establishment figures from both sides could see eye to eye.

Political Theater And The Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem

July 6, 2018 Danny Haiphong, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Immigration, Racism

President Donald Trump has come under fire of late for reviving an outdated policy of the Bush II era. The Trump Administration has spent the last few months enforcing a “zero tolerance” border policy predicated upon the separation of migrant children from their families. Thousands of migrant children have been detained at the border in makeshift shelters and detention centers, which are fancy words for prisons. Wall to wall opposition to the practice has emerged from the Democratic Party, a section of the Republican Party, and the corporate media. Tears have been shed and terms like fascism have been once again hurled at Trump by his opponents. What it all amounts to is political theater, which has sown utter confusion into the discourse surrounding the immigration crisis.

Abolishing ICE Isn’t Radical — It’s Rational

July 6, 2018 By Fizz Perkal, Otherwords.org Resist! Border, ICE, Immigration, Repression

As someone who was born and raised in the border state of New Mexico, I’m very familiar with political speak about immigrants and the border, especially when it comes to talking about safety. After 9/11, concerns about safety led to the passing of the Homeland Security Act, which created a new cabinet department as well as a new law enforcement agency: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ICE was given a never-before-seen level of criminal and civil authority — in theory, to keep Americans safe. It’s now the largest investigative branch of the Homeland Security department. Unlike other law enforcement agencies like the FBI or DEA, ICE doesn’t answer to the Department of Justice, which for decades has at least paid lip service to due process. Far from being a law enforcement agency, ICE has become the closest thing we have to a lawless organization.

Targeting The Most Vulnerable: Children In Detention In The US And Palestine

July 5, 2018 Alice Rothchild, Mondoweiss.net Educate! Children, Displacement, Immigration, Palestine

Americans are grappling with the incarceration of 10-year-olds and the concept of “tender age detention centers” while morally bankrupt politicians wring their bloodied hands. As courts begin to respond, many folks across the political spectrum are wondering, “What happens to the children caught in this catastrophe?” Interestingly, there is much we can learn from research in the US and from the Israeli experience with regard to children and prisons. The US and Israel both perceive themselves as enlightened “western democracies,” yet both have high incarceration rates, particularly for children of color, sometimes involving the same global prison industries. In both countries, these kinds of children are perceived as the “other,” the “enemy,” the “invading hordes ready to destroy America,” the “Muslim terrorists seeking to kill Israelis.”

Hundreds Call For ICE To Be Abolished And Protest Operation Streamline

July 5, 2018 Marielena Castellanos, Laprensa-sandiego.org Resist! ICE, Immigration, Protests, Racism, Undocumented

Hundreds gathered in Chicano Park this week for a rally and march through downtown San Diego to call for an end to family separations, the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and to cancel the implementation of Operation Streamline. The federal program being expanded along California’s border, Operation Streamline, which creates fast tracked mass prosecutions of people caught crossing the United States-Mexico border without documentation, is expected to begin this month in California. Protesters included San Diego residents and hundreds of others who traveled from all across California and around the country. The march and rally were organized by Mijente and a number of interfaith and civil rights organizations. Mijente is a national Latinx organization mobilizing against immigration enforcement and criminalization of migrants.

Protest Against ICE At Statute Of Liberty On 4th Of July

July 4, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Abolish ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigration

Two protests at the Statue of Liberty against US immigration policy forced the monument to close for the Fourth of July. The statue is a symbol of the United States welcoming immigrants, as a result, it was an excellent place to highlight the myth of the United States which now persecutes immigrants and restricts immigration. On Independence Day six people were arrested for hanging a large banner on the statue's pedestal that read “Abolish I.C.E.” They were taken into custody around 2:30 p.m. Associated Press reported on the second-related protest resulting in an additional arrest, writing, a woman protesting U.S. immigration policy climbed the Statue of Liberty's base and forced the monument's evacuation on the Fourth of July hours after several other demonstrators had hung a banner on the statue's pedestal and had been arrested. About 100 feet (30 meters) above ground, the climber engaged in a four-hour standoff with police

From Occupation To Community: The Lessons From OccupyICE Portland

July 4, 2018 Rob Reimetz, Counterpunch.org Resist! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Occupation, Portland

I remember visiting the the OccupyICEPDX encampment during its first week in Portland, Oregon in which activists successfully shut down the local I.C.E. Facility. I was able to have conversations with several activists and assist in carrying heavy items around the camp. The activists told me what made this occupation so successful was once they decided to commit to setting up an encampment around the facility their numbers grew quickly. These rise in numbers is what has helped sustain the occupation. This first visit to me felt like an occupation. Building was still being done, many items were still needed for the camp, and teams in the camp were recently established. But something else was coinciding with this occupation. Something that we can all learn from, it was not until my visit to the camp on June 30th for the nightly vigil that I realized what these lessons were.

Aggressive Police Action Used To Remove #OccupyICE Philadelphia

July 3, 2018 Staff, Unicorn Riot Resist! Abolish ICE, Immigration, OccupyICE

In the latest development in the “Occupy ICE” protest encampments spreading across America, protesters have set up a new encampment outside an ICE building at 8th & Cherry Street in Philadelphia (a “sanctuary city“). Unicorn Riot has been providing live coverage into the night. Philadelphia Counter-Terrorism Unit & DHS federal police have cleared #AbolishICE protesters from two garage entrances used to move ICE detainees. Activist legal support estimates ~20+ arrests & likely injuries – officers were seen punching & pulling people from the crowd, throwing them to the ground as police clear the street.

Drop The Charges Against Ice Protesters The #SanDiegoClimbers

July 3, 2018 L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith, Black Youth Project 100 Resist! Abolish ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigration

Over the last few days as we've been mobilizing with our Mijente comrades in San Diego to speak out against the implementation of Operation Streamline and the separation of families/criminalization of migration due to invisible borders. Our work is not done. Call District Attorney, Summer Stephan, at 619-531-3544 between 10 am and 7 pm CST and demand that she drop the charges against the #SanDiegoClimbers who dropped the Free Our Families Now banner.

A Century Of U.S. Intervention Created The Immigration Crisis

July 2, 2018 Mark Tseng-Putterman, Medium.com Educate! Immigration, Undocumented, US Imperialism

A national spotlight now shines on the border between the United States and Mexico, where heartbreaking images of Central American children being separated from their parents and held in cages demonstrate the consequences of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy” on unauthorized entry into the country, announced in May 2018. Under intense international scrutiny, Trump has now signed an executive order that will keep families detained at the border together, though it is unclear when the more than 2,300 children already separated from their guardians will be returned. Trump has promised that keeping families together will not prevent his administration from maintaining “strong — very strong — borders,” making it abundantly clear that the crisis of mass detention and deportation at the border and throughout the U.S. is far from over.

Thousands Protest Trump’s Treatment Of Child Immigrants

July 2, 2018 By John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Immigration, Protests, Trump Administration, Undocumented

Washington, DC — Thousands of protesters, including many families with children, rallied at the White House Saturday to condemn the Trump Administration for separating children from parents at U.S. borders. Over 30,000 took part in the Families Belong Together rally for three hours, standing in the hot June sun while dozens spoke out against the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which in some cases has led to young children being held in chain-linked enclosures resembling kennel cages. The immigrant family separation policy created a firestorm of controversy after ProPublica leaked an audio recording from an immigrant detention center of groups of crying children desperate to be reunited with their parents. the separation policy, Enforced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has incited the nation, spurring several instances where citizens openly confronted cabinet members and a White House aide in restaurants and public places.

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