Undocumented

Protesters Block Entrance Of Coach Company Accused Of Helping The Government To Deport Migrants

July 30, 2019 Ruchira Sharma, Inews.co.uk Resist! Deportations, Immigration, Protests, Undocumented

Environmental activism group Reclaim the Power are protesting outside the entrance of a coach company accused of assisting the government with deportations. Three protesters have suspended themselves on tripods, blocking access to Hallmark Connections in Stanwell in an attempt to challenge what it claims is its “complicity in the violent deportations of asylum seekers in the UK”. A spokesperson for the group told i volunteers will remain there until the company agrees to end its involvement in deporting migrants.

The Top 5 Ways To Defeat ICE Agents

July 30, 2019 Lee Camp, Truthdig.com Organize! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

The Democrats and the corporate media will breathlessly tell you how Donald Trump is a racist (he is). They’ll relay the gut-wrenching horror of having your family ripped apart by Border Patrol (I’m sure it is). They’ll let you know that keeping children in cages is not what America stands for and not who we are (it kinda is). But despite all of this, they practically never tell everyone how to actually fight back against ICE raids and Border Patrol detentions. Welcome to the paradoxical sales pitch of the neoliberal morass—“Act like you hate racism while doing almost nothing to stop racist policies that have gone on for decades!”

“This Isn’t Just Something Happening Elsewhere”: Protesters Rally Outside Vermont ICE facility

July 29, 2019 Ross Ketschke, Mynbc5.com Resist! ICE, Immigration, Protests, Undocumented, Vermont

Hundreds marched through the rain Sunday afternoon to protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Williston. The demonstration was put on by the combined force of dozens of local activist groups including Women's March Vermont, Migrant Justice and the Peace and Justice Center. “If you’re taking children away from their mothers and leaving them in a room with no one to care for them, you need to quit your job,” said Bob Fishel, of Burlington.

Neighbors Form Human Barricade To Protect Dad And Son From ICE Agents

July 24, 2019 Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost.com Resist! Deportations, ICE, Solidarity, Undocumented

“I could see if these people were bad criminals, but they’re not. They’re just trying to provide for their kids,” a neighbor told a Nashville TV station. A group of sympathetic Tennessee neighbors mobilized Monday to form a human barricade to successfully protect a father from arrest by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Neighbors in Nashville first brought food, water and gas to the unidentified man and his 12-year-old son, who were holed up for close to four hours in the family van after it was blocked in their driveway by the ICE agents, who witnesses said were not in uniform.

Who’s Making Money From The Border Crisis? Private Prisons

July 23, 2019 Barbara Boland, Theamericanconservative.com Educate! Immigration, Private Prisons, Profit, Undocumented

The Trump administration’s decision to vastly increase the number of immigrants held in prisons has proven controversial. It’s also big business. The vast majority of people jailed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are held in private facilities. The two companies that manage over half of the private prison contracts in the U.S., CoreCivic and GEO Group, earned more than $4 billion in 2017. Both have spent millions of dollars on lobbyists and campaign contributions, ostensibly to ensure that Washington continues to favor the $2 billion detention system.

ICE Raids, Asylum Seekers And The Othering Of People Of Color

July 22, 2019 Preeti Vissa Kristipati, Greenlining.org Educate! Asylum, Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

Like many of you, I’ve watched the reports and rumors of expected ICE raids, images of adults and children in U.S. concentration camps and the attacks on asylum seekers with horror. The large-scale ICE raids that officials have hinted at haven’t yet materialized as I write this, but they’ve succeeded in what may have been their real objective: terrorizing immigrant communities. Central and South Americans seem to be mainly in the crosshairs, but they’re far from the only ones.

The US Is Quietly Opening Shelters For Babies And Young Kids. One Has 12 Children And No Mothers

July 18, 2019 By Aura Bogado, Revealnews.org Educate! Children, Immigration, Shelter, Undocumented

The federal government is quietly expanding its use of shelters to house infants, toddlers and other young asylum-seekers. One Phoenix facility housed 12 children ages 5 and under, Reveal has learned, some as young as 3 months old, all without their mothers. As part of this expansion, the government has designated three facilities to house newborns and unaccompanied teen mothers. Records obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting indicate a dozen children arrived at Child Crisis Arizona starting in mid-June, after it garnered a $2.4 million contract to house unaccompanied children through January 2022.

Dozens Arrested As Over 1,000 Jewish Activists And Allies Shut Down Entrances To ICE Headquarters Demanding Closure Of Trump Detention Camps

July 18, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Detention Centers, ICE, Immigration, Protests, Trump Administration, Undocumented

"It's not just symbolic—we're actually shutting down ICE," said one organizer. Over a thousand progressive Jewish activists and allies on Tuesday shut down the entrances to ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C. to protest President Donald Trump's treatment of migrants and demand the closure of the administration's detention camps. As The Daily Beast reported, ICE employees "were forced to walk around the protesters, looking for ways to enter the building, as people outside caught glimpses of workers inside checking the doors."

Trump’s Attack Against Immigrants Meets Resistance

July 16, 2019 Alicia Jrapko and Bill Hackwell, Resumen-english.org Resist! Immigration, Repression, Trump Administration, Undocumented

Nearly 800 events took place this weekend across the United States organized by grassroots organizations including religious sectors, community groups, students, labor and many individuals who had had enough of the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids taking place in working and poor communities against immigrants and Trump’s concentration camps on the border with Mexico. The protests feel different this time and seem broader; going beyond activists and progressive people to include folks who feel Trump’s actions embarrass the US in front of the world and thousands upon thousands who feel compelled to come out...

As ICE Raids Begin, Advocates Remind Immigrants That ‘You Have Rights’

July 15, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Educate! Deportations, ICE, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

"I can only imagine the fear our immigrant communities feel this morning." Long-feared ICE raids began quietly over the weekend as the agency moved slowly to lead off what's expected to be several days of actions targeting families as part of President Donald Trump's war on immigrants. Plans for the raids were made public on July 11. Reporting from The New York Times revealed the scope of the planned raids—targeting 10 cities and thousands of families—and President Donald Trump, in a tweet, confirmed the operation.

Jewish Youth Say “Never Again” As They Protest Trump’s Concentration Camps

July 11, 2019 By Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Detention Centers, Immigration, Jewish, Protests, Solidarity, Undocumented

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY—Planes on their way to the airport fly low over a crowd of young protesters chanting “Racist ICE has got to go!” More than 100 Jewish and immigrant activists have gathered outside the Elizabeth Contract Detention Center in New Jersey, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds approximately 300 detainees. Rabbi Salem Pearce leads the protesters in the Mourner’s Kaddish, a Jewish prayer of mourning, for six immigrant children who have died in U.S. government custody. “There are more who are not named,” she says. “There will be more.”

Call To Action: Close The Concentration Camps Now!

July 10, 2019 By Arun Gupta and Juan Carlos Ruiz, Progressive.org Resist! Border, Concentration Camps, Detention Centers, Immigration, Undocumented

This week we wrote about the need to transform US immigration policy beginning with closing the immigrant detention camps in Stop Immigrant Arrests, Close The Camps, Transform Immigration Policy. We are calling on all people of conscience to shut down the concentration camps on the US-Mexico border through any nonviolent means necessary. From Abolitionism to Standing Rock, Americans have come together time and again to defy horrific injustice. Now, as the government tries to normalize concentration camps, it is time like never before to target those responsible.

Sanctuary Leaders Fight Back Against ICE’s ‘Psychological Violence’ And Steep Fines

July 9, 2019 Tina Vasquez, Rewire.news Resist! ICE, Immigration, Sanctuary Cities, Undocumented

Ivan Ramirez, a 13-year-old Guatemalan asylum seeker, says he can’t remember a time in his life when he felt free. Now that the federal government intends to fine his mother more than $300,000, he worries that whatever semblance of safety they have in sanctuary is being threatened. Ivan and his mother Hilda Ramirez came to the United States fleeing familial violence in 2014. Since then, they have been “under attack” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the elder Ramirez said. They were detained together for almost a year after first arriving in the United States.

Nationwide ‘Close The Camps’ Demonstrations Announced To Protest Horrific Conditions At Trump Detention Centers

July 1, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Detention Centers, Immigration, Protests, Trump Administration, Undocumented

As appalling details of the conditions at immigrant detention centers in the U.S. continue to pour in—with one doctor recently comparing them to "torture facilities"—a coalition of rights groups on Friday announced nationwide "Close the Camps" demonstrations for next week to protest the Trump administration's treatment of migrant children. "We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers," said MoveOn.org, one of the groups helping to organize the events, which are set to take place Tuesday, July 2.

Thousands Of People Are Organizing A Huge, Nationwide Vigil At Detention Camps Across America.

June 26, 2019 Annie Reneau, Upworthy.com Resist! Detention Centers, Immigration, Undocumented, Vigil

When you hear one story, you may assume it's an anomaly. When you hear a few stories, you might think they're just rumors. But at this point, the number of reports from on-the-ground sources documenting blatant human rights abuses on our soil cannot be ignored. We have doctors, lawyers, public health officials, civil rights experts, and reporters sharing horrifying first-hand accounts of what is happening to people—to children—we have detained. We have administration officials on video telling incredulous judges that children in overcrowded detention centers do not need access to showers, soap, toothbrushes, or blankets.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

Daily movement news and resources