From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): We just released a report (1) exposing the inhumane treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers by U.S. authorities over the past year. It’s horrifying: Children were detained and deported — even babies as young as nine days … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/01/title-42-wind-down-welcomed-not-enough-secure-immigration-justice-say-rights-groups “With an end date for Title 42 now set, it’s time for President Biden to fulfill his promise to build a just and humane asylum system,” said the ACLU. JULIA CONLEY April 1, 2022 Immigrant rights advocates … Continued
From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/): Register to join Detention Watch Network, We are Home, FIRM and many more on Thursday, March 3rd for the next National Communities Not Cages Day of Action. Contrary to campaign promises to create a … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Join us this week to uplift the voices of Haitian and black migrants facing ongoing deportations and expulsions under the Title 42 policy – a racist, Trump-era policy that Biden has extended to turn people seeking safety … Continued
You did it! Community pressure worked! After two months of community groundswell we are thrilled to announce that the two Haitian families at the Berks County Detention Center, who had been imprisoned since before the pandemic started, are no longer … Continued
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): As you know, COVID-19 is exposing deep systemic inequalities in the US and is quickly making disparities worse, as millions of marginalized people are struggling to pay bills, stay healthy, and survive. Immigrants and undocumented people … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/01/23/missing/#.Wmeatq6nEdU By David Elliot January 23, 2018 Imagine you live in a rural county. Imagine your neighbors – and perhaps you, even – voted for a candidate for public office who ran on a platform of deporting those suspected … Continued
Joel Rubin, Jazmine Ulloa and Lisa Mascaro A federal judge Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to end the program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. The ruling marks … Continued
From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/): We need you to join us in cutting off the flow of money that allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport and detain our community members. Money is one of the only barriers … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): On Good Friday, Maribel Trujillo Diaz, a Catholic mom of four from Fairfield, Ohio, was sitting in a Louisiana detention center awaiting her deportation. Right now, thousands of immigrant mothers like Maribel are being … Continued