Trump administration to end legal protection for over one million immigrants in US

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29 January 2017


No Ban, No Wall – Full Citizenship Rights for All!
Smash Racist Ban on Muslims, Refugees

LET THEM IN!


On Wednesday, the White House let it be known that President Donald Trump would sign an executive order to ban Syrian refugees as well as those from other predominantly Muslim countries, and to begin building his infamous border wall with Mexico. That evening there were mass protests in New York City and elsewhere. On Friday, Trump issued his decree, prohibiting entry of anyone, even permanent U.S. residents, from those countries. As the Border Patrol began implementing the order on Saturday, stopping travelers returning home, thousands rushed to the airports, from JFK in New York City to LAX in Los Angeles. Huge crowds stayed for hours chanting “Refugees are welcome here” and “LET THEM IN!”

These are the seeds of popular revolt against the brutal xenophobic (anti-foreigner) policies of the Trump regime. Democratic politicians tried to climb on the bandwagon. But it was the policies of the Democratic Party that pushed people into the arms of Republican Trump. Trump wants to build a wall – Bill Clinton began construction of the wall in the 1990s. Trump threatens to deport millions – Barack Obama deported over 5.5 million during his two terms as president, earning him the nickname of “deporter in chief.”

On Saturday night, as hundreds protested outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a federal judge issued an emergency stay of Trump’s decree. This may temporarily let in scores of travelers held at the airports, but it will not stop construction of the wall or the raids of the hated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) cops. All working people, all potential targets of racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic attack, and all defenders of democratic rights must come out now. First they came for the Muslims!

Expressions of popular outrage are vital, but they are not enough. Occupy Wall Street brought out thousands to protest against inequality – and achieved nothing. Black Lives Matter protests had tens of thousands in the streets denouncing racist police murder – and the killer cops keep on killing. It is necessary to bring to bear the enormous power of the multiracial working class, including millions of immigrants (documented and undocumented), together with African Americans, Latinos, Asians and students.

The Internationalist Group, which since its inception has organized immigrant workers, calls to prepare concrete workers action to stop deportations and racist attacks. There are secret, unmarked immigration jails in various locations in NYC and other cities. The IG calls for mass action to drive I.C.E. jails out of NYC and all major urban areas. We need set up phone trees, social media networks and other measures for rapid response to flood the streets to block I.C.E. raids and deportations.

Class Struggle Education Workers (CSEW) has called for committees in every school to defend immigrants and all threatened students. Any deportation attempt should be met by calling an ongoing assembly shutting down the school and mobilizing union-led action citywide. On Saturday, the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York declared it would not pick up passengers for an hour at JFK in solidarity with the protests there. This is the first taste of the kind of action we need.

Above all, we must fight politically. Today, Trump is the CEO of American capitalism, yesterday it was Obama who ordered U.S. troops to bomb Syria, return to Iraq and continue the occupation of Afghanistan – all in the name of “fighting terrorism.” Yet the bloodiest terrorist of all is U.S. imperialism, which has slaughtered millions from Korea to Vietnam and the Middle East. On Wednesday, NYC public advocate Letitia James called on the crowd to “resist, resist, resist!” The population of every major city in the U.S. is strongly opposed to the racist gang that now holds complete sway in Washington. But to defeat the racist Trump it’s necessary to break with the Democrats, Republicans and all capitalist parties.

As the Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas (TIC – Class Struggle International Workers) say: “Ni ilegales, ni criminals, somos obreros, internacionales!” (“We are neither illegal nor criminal, we are international workers”). Our watchword is: “Asian, Latin, black and white – workers of the world unite!”

The IG, CSEW, TIC and CUNY Internationalist Clubs say: You can’t fight Trump with Democrats. We call for: “NYC Labor: Use Your Muscle NOW to Smash the Racist Ban!” We need to Build a revolutionary workers party! ■

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лидия • 7 hours ago

Prof Bomb Libya Cole and his faithful readers are a good example of such anti-Trump(pro-Obama) ilk.
On the other hand, how the victims of USA imperialism see it

"America, the only place where people protest if the president bans people from certain counties, but not if he bombs them...go figure"

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No Ban, No Wall, No War on Truth


Chris,

The hand of fascism comes down heavier and heavier as the days under the Trump/Pence regime go on. The regime followed up a first week of executive orders to green light the DAPL and Keystone XL pipelines; re-install the global gag order barring health care providers from discussing abortion with patients; announce they are building the wall on the US-Mexico border. They imposed a Muslim travel ban and last night, fired the acting Attorney General who refused to defend this ban because she questioned its legality.

All this sharply underscores the necessity to mobilize millions to oust the Trump/Pence regime.

The response to these horrors points to the possibility to do just that. The protests that began with Trump's inauguration continue and spread, with huge outpourings jamming up airports nationwide in outrage over the Muslim travel ban. This is inspiring, and it needs to be built on. Two things RefuseFascism.org has said from the beginning:

1. The Trump/Pence regime is indeed fascist and as such poses a mortal threat and must be defeated.
2. There are people - millions and tens of millions - who can potentially be mobilized to fight against it and who must be led to step outside the confines of politics-as-usual (including protest-as-usual) to actually OUST this horrendous monstrosity.

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New Threats and Thuggery in the Trump Regime’s War on Truth
January 30, 2017

In just nine days, the Trump regime has pumped out lie after lie. Trump demonizes all Muslims, devoid of evidence. He promotes the most outrageous lies about the cause and nature of the global refugee crisis. Trump dehumanizes Black people and Mexicans. He insists, against all facts, that the turnout for his inauguration was under-reported. He claimed, and when challenged insisted—without any basis—that “millions” of people voted against him illegally. This is not just a series of lies, this is a war on truth. And in the past few days, top people in the Trump regime and Trump himself have moved to enforce that war on truth.

In a statement that unapologetically upheld lying, Trump’s key advisor, Kellyanne Conway, defended Trump’s lie about millions of illegal voters as “alternative facts.” When her quote made it into newscasts, Conway demanded—on Fox News channel—that networks “get rid of” reporters who simply reported what she said. She ranted: “Who is cleaning house? Which one is going to be the first network to get rid of these people, the people who think things were just not true?” And, “I’m too polite to mention their names, but they know who they are, and they are all wondering who will be the first to go. The election was three months ago. None of them have been let go.”

This followed Trump saying he was in a “running war” with the media. It followed demands by Trump’s top advisor, Steve Bannon, that the mainstream media should “keep its mouth shut.” And after Conway’s demands, on January 29, Trump himself tweeted that someone “should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!”

These moves by the Trump regime are in line with the Nazi propaganda machine under Hitler. The Nazis used iron-fisted control over the media, including silencing voices of radical resistance, as well as mainstream media that questioned some of Hitler’s lies and actions.

The Nazis established an atmosphere of terror to silence critical thinking. All to cover up, or justify, the historic crimes they were committing against humanity. Not this time! This is a regime that must be stopped.

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20,000 people flooded Battery Park in downtown Manhattan, New York City, before marching north to Foley Square.

Boston, 20,000 protesters jammed into Copley Square to protest President Trump’s actions.

Washington, D.C., thousands rallied in Lafayette Square, across from the White House and hundreds at Dulles Airport.

Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, 500 people protested.

Cleveland, hundreds marched in and around Hopkins International Airport. Someone shared the story of a Cleveland Clinic internal medicine resident doctor, a citizen of Sudan, who had been returning to work after visiting family overseas when she was detained in a room for 10 hours in New York–and then forced to board a plane back to Saudi Arabia.

Los Angeles, thousands of protesters converged on the airport. Demonstrators filled the lobby of the international terminal and called for the release of those behind held. People being held were “advised” by federal officials to waive or drop their application for admission and just leave the country “voluntarily”—or else face deportation, which would make it very difficult for them to return to the U.S.

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On January 27, Donald Trump issued a vicious ban on immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries and a ban on all refugees. With the stroke of a pen, the lives of thousands were destroyed and shockwaves of terror and fear were sent into entire countries and communities. By that evening, thousands amassed at airports in protest—chanting, forming emergency legal clinics, blocking traffic and completely upending business as usual. These protests have continued in different forms for days, clogging major cities and towns all across the country and in other parts of the world.

Yet, the Trump-Pence regime barreled ahead.

When federal judges in four jurisdictions quickly blocked the implementation of aspects of Trump’s order, the White House pushed back and reports indicate that some Customs and Border Protection agents repeatedly resorted to coercion and deception to deny entry to people who legally should have been admitted to the U.S.

When more than 100 members of the State Department indicated deep alarm at Trump’s order—utilizing a customary means through which members are encouraged to offer dissent without retaliation—White House press secretary Sean Spicer ominously threatened them: “Get with the program or… Go.” (Since then, more than 1,000 have signed a letter opposing Trump’s order.)

Then, on Monday night, acting Attorney General Sally Yates, the highest law enforcement official in the land, announced that the Department of Justice would not defend Trump’s ban in court because she questioned its legality. The Trump-Pence regime struck back fast and with vengeance. They fired and excoriated Attorney General Yates, even accusing her of betrayal. Note well: the role of the Attorney General is not to do the bidding of the President, but to enforce the laws and the Constitution of the U.S.

This Muslim travel ban from Trump is not only cruel, immoral and illegal—it is FASCIST. In its content and in how it is being carried out, the Trump-Pence fascist regime has not only escalated its extreme xenophobia and nationalism, demonizing and unleashing terror against those it deems as “enemies,” “undesirables,” or “dangers to society.” It has also gone further in shredding what have up till now been the supposed civil and legal rights of the people and the “checks and balances” which have long been considered foundational to U.S. society.

Meanwhile, Kellyanne Conway escalated the regime’s assault on the media and the truth by demanding that journalists who had “talked smack” about Trump be fired. Christian fascist and white supremacist ideologue Steve Bannon was added as a core member of the National Security Council. All on top of a dizzying week in which Trump green-lighted environmentally devastating pipelines, moved ahead with his vicious border wall, lied about basic facts, and then threatened people who challenged his LIES, muzzled government agencies, assaulted science itself, escalated the war on women and abortion rights worldwide, and pushed forward with his cabinet of Christian fascists and war criminals, and more.

This regime is fascist. It is illegitimate. It must be driven from power.

One of the great strengths of the outpourings against Trump’s Muslim ban—in addition to the immediacy of people’s actions and the depth of their anger and determination—was the degree to which they linked this assault to the other elements of the Trump-Pence program. Pink pussy hats from the Women’s Marches dotted every outpouring. Hundreds grabbed up signs from RefuseFascism.org, “No! In the Name of Humanity—We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America.” Many invoked the lessons of Nazi Germany, including homemade signs that read, “First they came for the Muslims, and we said Not This Time Motherfuckers!” Even the hashtag that took off, #NoBanNoWall, linked the ban on Muslims to the vicious assault on Mexicans and other Latinos.

All this must be built upon—but it also must go further. Resisting every attack by Trump-Pence is essential, but it alone will not be sufficient. The regime as a whole must be driven from power. This is what we must set our sights on.

Unless and until we succeed in this, the Trump-Pence fascist regime will continue to barrel ahead with its fascist agenda, to trample the objections of the masses of people, to cut down any within the ruling structures who oppose them, to shred even the limited previously existing “checks and balances,” and to hammer into place a radically new world order and fascist form of governance in this country.

It is clear that there are people—millions and tens of millions—who can potentially be mobilized to fight against it and who must be led to step outside the confines of politics-as-usual (including protest-as-usual) to actually OUST this horrendous monstrosity.

This, and only this, is what can avert the brewing catastrophe for the planet and its people.

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Previous editions: Trump rips up controversial TPP 'trade' deal and says getting out is 'a great thing for the American worker'

White House Official, in Reversal, Says Green Card Holders Won't Be Barred (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/white-house-official-in-reversal-says-green-card-holders-wont-be-barred.html) | 29 Jan 2017 | A top White House official appeared to reverse a key part of President Trump's immigration order on Sunday, saying that people from the affected countries who hold green cards [so corporations can continue to avoid hiring US workers] will not be prevented from returning to the United States. But the official, Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, also said that border agents had "discretionary authority" to detain and question suspicious travelers from certain countries. That statement seemed to add to the uncertainty over how the executive order will be interpreted and enforced in the days ahead.

Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on 'sanctuary' counties (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article128984759.html) | 26 Jan 2017 | Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests -- effectively gutting the county's position as a "sanctuary" for immigrants in the country illegally. Gimenez cited an executive order signed Wednesday by President Donald Trump that threatened to cut federal grants for any counties or cities that don't cooperate fully with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since 2013, Miami-Dade has refused to indefinitely detain inmates who are in the country illegally and wanted by ICE - not based on principle, but because the federal government doesn’t fully reimburse the county for the expense.

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Please stop replying with irrelevant crap.

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Please stop replying with irrelevant crap.


It's not irrelevant -- all of my posts at this thread have been on-topic, related to Trump's Muslim ban.

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A Terrorist Attack on Muslims in Quebec (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1364.php)


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A Terrorist Attack on Muslims in Quebec

Alain Savard

On Sunday night, a young, white, French-speaking, Quebec-born man opened fire inside of a Quebec City mosque, killing six Muslim worshipers -- Azzeddine Soufiane, Abdelkrim (Karim) Hassane, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Mamadou Tanou Barry and Ibrahima Barry -- and injuring 25. The six victims were first-generation immigrants who had lived in Quebec for years, some for decades. The shooter, Alexandre Bissonnette, had expressed anti-immigrant positions online and was a fan of Donald Trump in the U.S. and France's far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen.

This leaves little room for doubt: The shooter acted upon political beliefs, in order to instill fear among Muslims and immigrants. This is a textbook case of right-wing terrorism. Yet the media coverage of the mass shooting and the official reaction of many politicians took many detours to avoid stating the obvious.

After the attack, the first wave of right-wing opportunism spread like wildfire when a false report began circulating that the attack was carried out by multiple Syrian Muslim refugees who had recently arrived in Canada. On social media, the right portrayed Syrians and Muslims as dangerous terrorists. Adrien Pouliot, leader of Quebec's Conservative Party, happily took the bait, stating that the shooting proved that "Quebec was not sheltered from Islamic extremism."

Many tried to come up with a tortuous explanation for why gunmen motivated by "Islamic extremism" might commit a massacre at a mosque, attempting to frame it as violence among Muslims spreading in our peaceful province.

When police released the name of two suspects they had arrested, it was clear that the initial report about Muslim shooters was wrong, but the damage was done. It revealed how Islamophobic opportunists were quick to use the event for their own ends.

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London (AFP) - Thousands of Europeans enraged by US President Donald Trump's immigration ban demonstrated Saturday in cities across the continent, calling on Americans to "dump Trump" and vowing to fight his policies.

In London, an estimated 10,000 people turned out, chanting "Theresa May: Shame on You" to denounce the British prime minister's support for the new US leader.

Brandishing placards declaring "No to scapegoating Muslims" and "Socialism not Trumpism", the protesters moved from the US embassy toward May's Downing Street office.

In Paris and Berlin each, around a thousand people came out to protest, while smaller gatherings of several hundred people took place in provincial British cities including Manchester and Birmingham.

Rallies were also held in Sweden's capital Stockholm and the Spanish city Barcelona, where some 300 people marched outside the Spanish consulate, according to media reports.

Earlier protests on the days following the announcement of the ban had also drawn several thousand people across the globe, including in Australia, whose prime minister reportedly clashed with Trump in a phone call last week over US commitment to a refugee deal.

- 'Don't accept hate' -

"We are here to say we don't accept hate," said 20-year-old American Michael Jacobs, co-organiser of the Paris rally, surrounded by signs saying "Refugees are welcome!"

In an executive order issued on January 27, Trump slapped a blanket ban on nationals of seven mainly Muslim countries -- Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen -- barring their entry to the US for 90 days.

Refugees were also barred from entry for 120 days, except those from Syria who were blocked indefinitely.

However, on Friday a judge lifted the ban, a move which Trump condemned and vowed to fight.

The White House argues the ban will make the country safer and at preventing terror attacks.

A Justice Department attorney has said since Trump's order, about 100,000 visas have been revoked.

Protesters in London heard a video message from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who thanked them for "standing up for what is right" and said they showed solidarity with "our friends all over the USA who share our views and our values, who are standing with minority communities under attack".

The Guardian newspaper said around 10,000 people attended, while organisers claimed 40,000.

- Anti-Trump petition -

More than 1.8 million people have signed a petition saying Trump should not be afforded a formal state visit because it would embarrass Queen Elizabeth II.

"We are going to make sure that if our prime minister continues to open the invitation to Donald Trump to come to Britain, we are going to be out in our hundreds of thousands," Chris Nineham, vice-chair of the Stop the War Coalition, told AFP.

"We're going to bring this capital to a halt on the day he comes over. We are going to make it impossible for him to have a state visit."

Meanwhile in Berlin protesters rallied in front of the Brandenburg Gate, holding reading "Berlin knows only the weak build walls" and "Fight ignorance, not immigrants".

"I hope they will change something, but I am really disappointed," said Mahsa Zamani, a 26-year-old Iranian medical student who had been due to undertake work experience at a Florida hospital.

"It is still a discrimination, and I don't know if I really have the feeling to go even if they are changing."


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“On Western Terrorism” – Interview with André Vltchek
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As an American investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and novelist, André Vltchek has covered countless armed conflicts around the world. Among his most recent work we find “On Western Terrorism”, a discussion with Noam Chomsky, a renowned expert on propaganda. Together, they explore the legacy of colonialism that lasts to this day and denounce the hypocrisy of the West in regard to terrorism since it is largely responsible for its development. We have interviewed André Vltchek to get his thoughts on the book and much more.



All along your passionate discussion with Noam Chomsky, you expose facts about imperialist interventionism in recent history, in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. What was the purpose of switching the focus from the alleged enemies of the West and onto the West itself?



For several long centuries, the West has been plundering the world militarily and economically. In order to ‘legitimize’ its crimes, it also manufactured extremely complex and effective propaganda system, imposing its ‘logic’ and cultural dogmas on the rest of the world. It was done with such persistence and skill, that basically all other narratives disappeared.

It is actually a tremendous tragedy, because several conquered cultures were clearly superior and much more humanistic than the West. The result is: natural, logical development of the world has been derailed, even crushed. Only Western dogmas prevailed, bringing imbalance, confusion, anger and frustration to the world.



Like Noam Chomsky, you are also a very prolific author. How would you describe your work and Chomsky’s work? And how was the experience of preparing this book?



Noam and I are using different ‘tactics’ to fight against this despicable situation. Noam is a linguist, great theoretical thinker and an activist. He is analyzing the situation in his non-fiction books, which are actually his great philosophical works. He is also speaking publicly, on virtually all continents.

I go directly to the sources, as I don’t essentially believe anything that I don’t see or touch, anymore. I try to recycle as little as possible. I travel to warzones and to the deadliest slums, speaking to top intellectuals but also to the poorest of the poor.



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I count on extremely complex web of sources, in many countries. Then I write my essays, which are later changed into chapters of my non-fiction books. Or I write my novels, which are always at least to some extent political, or mainly political. Or I make documentary films, for TV stations like Telesur or Al-Mayadeen.

My latest book, which actually unmasks Western propaganda worldwide has over 800 pages and is called, tellingly, “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. My recent novel on Western cultural imperialism is “Aurora”.

Noam and I compliment each other. And we really enjoy each other’s company. When we work together, there is nothing forced. We don’t always agree 100% on everything, but we very rarely strongly disagree about essential political issues.



What do you think about the evolution of the terrorism context and the revival of the “war on terror” speeches by western leaders?



Terrorism is essentially what the Western empires and now the American Empire have been using against the rest of the world.

Look at the Muslim world: historically, Islam has been very progressive and socially oriented, even ‘socialist’ religion. The first public university, the first public hospitals – everything was in the Muslim world.

Even after the WWII, Muslim countries were leaning towards socialism. Therefore, they had to be derailed, ruined and ‘radicalized’ by the West!

The West basically wrecked the three most important Muslim socialist states: Iran, Egypt and Indonesia. Then it used Afghanistan and Pakistan as proxies in its war with the Soviet Union, basically shattering these two countries as well.



So you definitely want your readers to look back on colonial past in order to understand the neocolonial present…



Absolutely. I am arguing in several of my essays, as well as in “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”, that the West, for understandable reasons, has been directly manufacturing ‘Muslim terrorism’. Therefore, we shouldn’t even use the term “Muslim terrorism”.

I witnessed the process in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Indonesia and elsewhere. It is shameful what is happening, but it is logical (given the Machiavellian essence of Western imperialism): the West managed to destroy the Soviet Union, it debased the anti-colonialist struggle/process (by killing or overthrowing people like Lumumba, Mosaddegh, Sukarno or Allende), and then it ran out of ‘big enemies’.

The West cannot exist without ‘big enemies’, as we all know. And so it created one really mighty one out of nothing, and royally screwed all Muslim countries in the process. Recently, in Tehran, two top philosophers there told me, that the West actually created, in many places, a totally new religion, which doesn’t have anything in common with Islam.



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“Exposing Lies of the Empire (…) is a book of philosophy,
a collection of exceptional investigative journalist reports, and a manifesto.”



De-legitimation of third world views on the north-south relations has been under attack on a regular basis by neo-conservative thinkers, who consider economic-centered analysis as “obsolete and old fashioned”. Could we say that the promoters of the so-called “clash of civilizations” have reached their goal? Which real interests are behind their way of thinking?



Yes, it is happening, but the guilty are not only the neo-conservatives, but also so-called liberals. I just left the city of Bandung (in Indonesia), which was hosting, in 1955, that famous “Asia-Africa Conference” (cradle of non-aligned movement). When you see the old photos there, you’d want to cry… Or scream!

The desire of the non-Western world for independence, for true freedom was so strong in those days, but the brutality of the West broke all courage and determination of all, except a handful of the nations. For decades, the spine of the resistance against Western imperialism had been cracked. Only now we see great resurrection of those old ideologies, goals and dreams.

Of course there is and will be huge clash of civilizations, but it will occur under different banners and with different logic than what is being promoted by the Western idéologues.

Truer ‘clash of civilizations’ will be very simple and positive: it will have form of a resistance struggle of the oppressed world, against the Western terror, which has been brutalizing our planet for hundreds of years.



You have frequently visited and lived in Latin American, Arabic and Asian countries for many years. In your opinion, how should progressive forces deal with issues concerning cultural identity and ethnic-entered conflicts in the XXIst century? Is the Eurocentric view a big trap for those who try to understand and change the world?



Yes it is, and it is essential to understand this point! Progressive forces in the West should, I believe, step back and be more humble. Instead of constantly preaching and showing their hatred against every left wing government in Latin America or Asia, they should learn some respect and the Chinese or South American cultures, and try to understand how things have been done there, historically.

The Western left lost squarely and patently. The hope is now in Latin America and Asia, and some very few countries of Africa. The Western left, I think, should stop being ‘purist’ and support what we still have in this world, instead of defining ‘who is a true Marxist and who is not’, etc.

The main struggle now should be the struggle against Western imperialism. I know the world, and I am convinced that if Western imperialism were defeated, the rest of the world would find a way to coexist peacefully, and to build a humane, much gentler and compassionate world. Then, and only then, we could start paying attention to details. Until then, rescuing our planet from what has been for centuries ruining it should be our sole goal.

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Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of his latest books are the revolutionary novel “Aurora” and two bestselling works of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire” and “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”. His other books are available here. Andre has also been producing documentaries for teleSUR and Al-Mayadeen. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo. After living in Latin America, Africa and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website and on Twitter.

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US Appeals Court bars enforcement of Trump travel ban

By Patrick Martin

10 February 2017

A three-judge Appeals Court panel issued a unanimous ruling Thursday afternoon rejecting the Trump administration’s claim of “unreviewable” presidential power and sustaining a judicial order that bars enforcement of Trump’s temporary ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as his temporary ban on the entry of refugees from any country.

The 3-0 ruling was signed by judges William Canby, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980; Richard Clifton, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001; and Michelle Friedland, appointed by Barack Obama in 2013. They denied a Trump administration request for an immediate stay of the temporary restraining order issued February 3 by Federal District Judge James Robart in Seattle, Washington.

The panel declared: “[T]he Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure to enter a stay would cause irreparable injury, and we therefore deny its emergency motion for a stay.”

The 29-page decision subjects the Trump administration’s legal position and factual claims to withering criticism. The judges declare that the government presented no evidence that halting the travel ban would endanger national security or American lives. By contrast, the ruling held that the states of Washington and Minnesota, which brought suit against the ban, demonstrated widespread and irreparable damage on their citizens and institutions if the travel ban were reinstated.

The appeals court decision by no means ends the conflict over the travel ban. From a legal standpoint, it was not a final determination on the merits of the case, but merely continued the suspension of the travel ban while the lawsuit is more fully adjudicated.

President Trump responded to the ruling within minutes, tweeting, “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!” The Department of Justice, under newly sworn-in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an adamant opponent of immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, said in a statement that it was “reviewing the decision and considering its options.”

One possible step would be a Trump administration appeal of Thursday’s decision to the US Supreme Court. However, the court has lacked a ninth justice for a year, since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and has had frequent 4-4 splits during that time. An evenly divided court would leave the denial of a stay by the Ninth Circuit intact.

Some right-wing legal commentators urged Trump to withdraw the executive order, which suffers from numerous technical defects pointed out in the court decision, and reissue it after consultation with congressional leaders and the newly installed members of the Trump cabinet, including Sessions. This step could delay Supreme Court review until after the confirmation of Trump’s nominee to fill the high court vacancy, Neil Gorsuch, in the expectation that he would provide a fifth and deciding vote for the government.

A third possibility, for which Trump seemed to lay the basis in a series of increasingly vituperative statements during the week, would be to directly defy the court ruling, escalating the conflict within the US political system to the level of a constitutional crisis. Certainly, Trump’s declaration that “If something happens blame him [Judge Robart] and the court system,” should be taken as a warning. The White House is prepared to use any terrorist attack that occurs as a pretext to breach constitutional norms and establish an authoritarian regime backed by the military and police.

The US ruling elite is deeply divided over what course of action to take. Speaking for those sections of the military-intelligence apparatus hostile to Trump, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on CNN only hours before the court ruling, declaring that he knew of no terrorist threat that could justify the travel ban, and warning that the ban had damaged relationships with US allies in the Middle East and would serve as a recruiting tool for Muslim extremist groups.

Even Trump’s own nominee to the Supreme Court, Gorsuch, voiced opposition to Trump’s tweets lambasting the “so-called judge” and suggesting the appeals court hearing Tuesday was “disgraceful.” Gorsuch is himself an appeals court judge, on the Tenth Circuit, and he told a Democratic senator that such attacks on judges were “disheartening” and “demoralizing.”

The intensity of the political conflict, within three weeks of Trump’s inauguration, is reflected in the language of the Appeals Court decision, which systematically eviscerated the arguments made by the Trump administration in legal briefs and in the course of an hour-long oral argument Tuesday.

The three-judge panel found that the district court had the authority to rule on the Executive Order, rejecting the government’s claim that the president has “unreviewable authority to suspend the admission of any class of aliens.” The government was not merely claiming that the political branches should be shown deference by the judiciary on national security issues, they wrote: “Instead, the Government has taken the position that the President’s decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections.”

They added, in language that underscores the implications of Trump’s actions and his administration’s legal argument: “There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.”

The ruling cited a series of Supreme Court decisions striking down actions taken by the federal government and justified in the name of “national security.” These include the 2008 Boumediene decision, in which the court found, over the objections of the Bush administration, that prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay had the right to seek a writ of habeas corpus and gain judicial review of their continued detention . The panel noted that at this stage in the legal proceeding, the burden was on the federal government to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits of its case and that it would suffer irreparable injury if the travel ban continued to be blocked. The government failed on both grounds, the three judges decided.

The ruling laid the most stress on the argument by the states of Washington and Minnesota that the travel ban was a gross violation of the constitutional requirement of due process, which applies not only to American citizens, but also to legal permanent residents, and to those without legal papers who are on American soil.

Even refugees seeking entry into the United States have rights under “procedures provided by federal statute,” which could not be overridden by the president. The panel rejected the claim of the Trump administration “that most or all of the individuals affected by the Executive Order have no rights under the Due Process Clause.”

The judges treated with some contempt the efforts by the Trump administration to rectify the obviously unconstitutional denial of rights to legal permanent residents. The inclusion of these green-card holders under the executive order was demanded by Trump’s fascistic chief adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, who overrode objections from Department of Homeland Security officials. After a series of unfavorable court rulings, the White House sought to “reinterpret” the order on the fly, with a statement by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and further directives to the DHS. Finally, White House counsel Donald F. McGahn issued “Authoritative Guidance” that the order did not apply to green-card holders.

The judges wrote: “At this point, however, we cannot rely upon the Government’s contention that the Executive Order no longer applies to lawful permanent residents. The Government has offered no authority establishing that the White House counsel is empowered to issue an amended order superseding the Executive Order signed by the President and now challenged by the States, and that proposition seems unlikely.

“Nor has the Government established that the White House counsel’s interpretation of the Executive Order is binding on all executive branch officials responsible for enforcing the Executive Order. The White House counsel is not the President, and he is not known to be in the chain of command for any of the Executive Departments. Moreover, in light of the Government’s shifting interpretations of the Executive Order, we cannot say that the current interpretation by White House counsel, even if authoritative and binding, will persist past the immediate stage of these proceedings.”

The court ruling says that claims that the Trump executive order violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment because it was aimed at Muslims should be taken seriously, and it flatly rejects the White House claim that Trump’s intentions can only be inferred from the text of the order—which makes no mention of Muslims—and not from his public statements.

The judges write: “It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims… The States’ claims raise serious allegations and present significant constitutional questions.” But they decline to pronounce further on the issue, pending actual discussion of this issue in further proceedings.

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Hundreds protest as long-time US resident and mother of two is deported

By Genevieve Leigh

10 February 2017

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the central Phoenix offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Wednesday afternoon seeking to block the detention of long-time US resident and illegal immigrant, Guadalupe García de Rayos. Wednesday’s visit to the local ICE office in Phoenix was part of García de Rayos’ regularly scheduled check-in with the office, which has taken place every year, and more recently every six months, following a 2008 felony conviction for having false ID papers.

Concerned that this routine would be ended by the recent executive order enacted by the Trump administration on immigration, friends and family of García de Rayos preemptively organized a protest. More than 200 people gathered to rally in her defense, and in defense of immigrant rights more broadly. They camped out outside of the Phoenix office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as García de Rayos was detained and plans for her deportation were set into motion.

Police dressed in riot gear began to move in sometime after 10 p.m. as the protesters refused to allow federal vehicles to leave the ICE facility. One man tied himself to the front wheels of a van in an attempt to prevent it from leaving; a total of seven people were arrested. These vehicles, lined with bars and heavily guarded, are the buses and vans used to transport people to detention centers or to the border for deportation. Devastating pictures of García de Rayos detained within the bars of one such vehicle as her son and daughter helplessly look on, have flooded the Internet. Her deportation was carried out Thursday morning around 10 a.m. through a Nogales border crossing.

García de Rayos has been a US resident since 1996, coming to the United States illegally with her parents when she was just 14 years old, the same age as her daughter now. Now 36, she has spent over two decades north of the border and is the mother of two teenage children, both of whom were born in the United States. García de Rayos’ husband, Aaron Reyes, is also undocumented, but so far has been allowed to remain in Arizona with their children.

García de Rayos was initially arrested for the “crime” of using a fake Social Security number at her workplace during a raid in 2008 at a water park in Mesa. These workplace raids are one of the most callous elements of US immigration enforcement under the program begun under Bush, and vastly expanded under Obama, called “Secure Communities.” The program combined federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies with ICE in an effort to deport immigrants who were already living in communities, as opposed to those attempting to cross the border.

A study by UC Berkeley found that only 52 percent of individuals arrested through the program were slated to have a hearing before an immigration judge and that 39 percent of individuals arrested had a spouse or children who were US citizens. A total of 88,000 families that included US citizens were affected.

After spending six months in jail, García de Rayos was released on the condition that she check in regularly with the ICE office, which she did faithfully from then on. In 2013 a judge issued a deportation order against her, but she was ultimately not sent back to Mexico because of a shift in the Obama administration policy which prioritized removing people deemed to be threats to US security.

Under the Trump administration’s January 25 executive order, the restrictions on deportations under Obama were abandoned. Now, undocumented workers who have committed “chargeable criminal offenses” will be prioritized for deportation. Such language can be applied to virtually all undocumented immigrants who are often forced to violate legal bans in order to support themselves and their families. The fake Social Security number used by García de Rayos is one example.

The actions of the Trump administration, particularly in regards to immigration, undoubtedly mark a watershed in the decay of bourgeois rule in the United States. There is something qualitatively different in the form and scope of repression being carried out against immigrants and refugees, measures which should be seen as a dangerous attack on the entire working class internationally. The actions of the Trump administration build on the policies of the Obama administration, which were anything but “lenient” and “humane” as many news outlets have begun to suggest.

The García de Rayos family will suffer a grim emotional and economic impact, after she was torn from her children and husband by the armed state agents—to say nothing of the effect on Guadalupe herself, separated from her loved ones and shipped off to a land largely foreign to her now.

However, what is most devastating about the experience of García de Rayos and family is that their situation is anything but unique. Similar, and even more tragic situations took place in record numbers under the Obama administration, which deported more than 2.7 million people over the past eight years, more than any other US administration in history.

The corporate media and the two capitalist political parties seek to limit “debate” over immigration to whether Obama was “better” or “worse” for immigrants than George W. Bush, or whether Hillary Clinton’s “fence” would somehow have been less draconian than Trump’s “wall.”

The real issue facing the working class is how to put an end to the entire vile apparatus of borders, fences, walls, detention camps and other repressive measures against the free movement of people. This means the struggle against capitalism and the nation-state system on which it is based, through uniting the working class as an international force on the basis of socialist policies.

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Immigrants are under attack. As we speak, we're getting reports from dozens of cities that immigration officials and local law enforcement working with the Trump administration are raiding homes to deport immigrants and their families.


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If you held up a sign at a protest that said "Immigrants are welcome here," it's time for you to show up.


If you flooded the airport to fight for refugees, it's time for you to show up.


If you hit the streets when the immigration executive order was announced, it's time for you to show up.


The #HereToStay Network is a group of people ready to fight for immigrants at risk of deportation. We know from credible sources that many immigrants will be doing routine check-ins at ICE Detention Centers, complying with orders from government agencies. We need people to be there with them during these check-ins, to stand with them and protect them, and to ensure they return safely to their communities and are not deported and separated from their families.


100 people were detained in Southern California after ICE agents came to their home and took everyone in the house. And Wednesday night Guadalupe, a mother of two in Phoenix, Arizona was detained at a routine check-in and deported in front of her children. We can't let this happen again.


Guadalupe's family, and other undocumented community risked their lives and status to protect her. But we need U.S. citizens to stand with undocumented folks.


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Jacksonville, FL - Over 300 people gathered outside the Duval County Courthouse on Jan. 31 to call for the repeal of President Donald Trump's anti-Muslim refugee ban.

Called "No Human is Illegal," the event was called by Jacksonville Progressive Coalition (JPC), a community activist organization most known for its successful campaign to remove Angela Corey, Jacksonville's racist former state attorney, from office

The protest brought together a diverse crowd of working people, college and high school students, and community activists. Families from Jacksonville's sizable Arab American community attended and spoke out against the ban. Organizers and advocates behind the campaign to extend the city's Human Rights Ordinance to protect the LGBTQ community came out in force, as did union workers from the Teamsters, the Communications Workers of America, and the North Florida Central Labor Council. Several Black liberation movement activists and groups also attended in support of refugees and Muslims.

On Jan. 26, Trump issued an executive order blocking refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries - Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia - from entering the U.S. The order sparked a massive wave of protests in cities across the country, just days after the giant women's march in Washington D.C. protesting Trump's inauguration. In the face of mounting public pressure, a federal judge halted the refugee ban. A federal appeals court is scheduled to rule on the legality of Trump's order in the coming days.

Building resistance to Trump

The crowd gathered outside the courthouse in the early evening, chanting, "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here," and "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA." Community activists and speakers from over a dozen organizations denounced Trump's attacks on Muslims and immigrants and called for mass resistance to the president's agenda.

"If you remember, Trump's first speech was an attack on Mexicans," said Wells Todd, an organizer in the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition. "From out the gate, this man was attacking minorities."

Other speakers called for continued protests against Trump's agenda and spoke on the need for a mass resistance movement.

"We need to build a rebellion against the 1%, and rest assured, Donald Trump represents that 1%," said Dave Schneider, a rank-and-file Teamster. "In this country, we have a democracy for the rich, which is a dictatorship for the rest of us. I say let's turn the tables of them, because there's a heck of a lot more working people than there are rich people in this country."

After hearing from over a dozen speakers, the crowd marched to city hall and the nearby federal courthouse building.

The people shut down violent Trump supporter

Despite trolling on social media and vague threats online, only three counter-protesters showed up at the rally. One Trump supporter, dressed in a 'Blue Lives Matter' vest, attempted to jump in front of the crowd with a giant Trump-Pence campaign sign. Several organizers recognized him from a #BlackLivesMatter in Jacksonville several months before, which he tried to verbally and physically disrupt.

When protesters moved in front of the single Trump provocateur to block out his sign, the man became enraged and forcefully shoved two people. In response, several protesters grabbed the Trump-Pence sign, crushed its wooden support frame, and kicked him out of the rally.

The significance of the refugee ban on the First Coast

Although Trump's ban reportedly did not affect anyone flying in at Jacksonville International Airport, the fight against anti-Arab racism and anti-Muslim bigotry has special significance on Florida's First Coast. Jacksonville has the tenth-largest Arab population (8000) of all U.S. cities, as well as the fifth-largest Syrian American population (1100). The city is also home to nearly 10,000 Muslims, many of Eastern European or southeast Asian descent.

In 2015, three Jacksonville relief agencies agreed to take in as many as 2000 refugees per year from Syria and other parts of the Middle East. However, Mayor Lenny Curry, a longtime Trump supporter and Islamophobe, vocally backed the refugee ban, putting the status of any future refugees arriving in Jacksonville up in the air.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states

By Lisa Rein, Abigail Hauslohner and Sandhya Somashekhar February 10 at 8:25 PM

U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.

The raids, which officials said targeted known criminals, also netted some immigrants who did not have criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during the Obama administration that aimed to just corral and deport those who had committed crimes.

Trump has pledged to deport as many as 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Last month he also made a change to the Obama administration’s policy of prioritizing deportation for convicted criminals, substantially broadening the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target to include those with minor offenses or no convictions at all.

Immigration officials confirmed that agents this week raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, the Los Angeles area, North Carolina and South Carolina, netting hundreds of people. But Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said they were part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE dislikes the term “raids,” and prefers to say authorities are conducting “targeted enforcement actions.”

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Protesters blocked an onramp to the 101 freeway in Los Angeles Feb. 9, objecting to what they claim is a rise in immigration raids. (The Washington Post)

Christensen said the raids, which began Monday and ended Friday at noon, found undocumented immigrants from a dozen Latin American countries. “We’re talking about people who are threats to public safety or a threat to the integrity of the immigration system,” she said, noting that the majority of those detained were serious criminals, including some who were convicted of murder and domestic violence.

[For years, immigration authorities gave this Arizona mother a pass. Now she has been deported.]

Immigration activists said the crackdown went beyond the six states DHS identified, and said they had also documented ICE raids of unusual intensity during the past two days in Florida, Kansas, Texas and Northern Virginia.

That undocumented immigrants with no criminal records were arrested and could potentially be deported sent a shock through immigrant communities nationwide amid concerns that the U.S. government could start going after law-abiding people.

“This is clearly the first wave of attacks under the Trump administration, and we know this isn’t going to be the only one,” Cristina Jimenez, executive director of United We Dream, an immigrant youth organization, said Friday during a conference call with immigration advocates.

ICE agents in the Los Angeles area Thursday swept a number of individuals into custody over the course of an hour, seizing them from their homes and on their way to work in daytime operations, activists said.

David Marin, ICE’s field director in the Los Angeles area, said in a conference call with reporters Friday that 75 percent of the approximately 160 people detained in the operation this week had felony convictions; the rest had misdemeanors or were in the United States illegally. Officials said Friday night that 37 of those detained in Los Angeles had been deported to Mexico.

“Dangerous criminals who should be deported are being released into our communities,” Marin said.

Spanish language radio stations and the local NPR affiliate in Los Angeles have been running public service announcements regarding the hourly “Know Your Rights” seminars the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles scheduled for Friday and Saturday. By the time the 4 p.m. group began Friday, more than 100 others had gathered at group’s office in the Westlake neighborhood just outside downtown.

A video that circulated on social media Friday appeared to show ICE agents detaining people in an Austin shopping center parking lot. Immigration advocates also reported roadway checkpoints, where ICE appeared to be targeting immigrants for random ID checks, in North Carolina and in Austin. ICE officials denied that authorities used checkpoints during the operations.

[The ‘sanctuary city’ on the front line of the fight over Trump’s immigration policy]

“I’m getting lots of reports from my constituents about seeing ICE on the streets. Teachers in my district have contacted me — certain students didn’t come to school today because they’re afraid,” said Greg Casar, an Austin city council member. “I talked to a constituent, a single mother, who had her door knocked on this morning by ICE.”

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) said he confirmed with ICE’s San Antonio office that the agency “has launched a targeted operation in South and Central Texas as part of Operation Cross Check.”


“I am asking ICE to clarify whether these individuals are in fact dangerous, violent threats to our communities, and not people who are here peacefully raising families and contributing to our state,” Castro said in a statement Friday night.

Hiba Ghalib, an immigration lawyer in Atlanta, said the ICE detentions were causing “mass confusion” in the immigrant community. She said she had heard reports of ICE agents going door-to-door in one largely Hispanic neighborhood, asking people to present their papers.

“People are panicking,” Ghalib said. “People are really, really scared.”

Immigration officials acknowledged that authorities had cast a wider net than they would have last year, as the result of Trump’s executive order.

The Trump administration is facing a series of legal challenges to that order, and on Thursday lost a court battle over a separate executive order to temporarily ban entry into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, as well as by refugees. The administration said Friday that it is considering raising the case to the Supreme Court.

[Federal appeals court rules 3 to 0 against Trump on travel ban]

Some activists in Austin and Los Angeles suggested that the raids might be retaliation for those cities’ “sanctuary city” policies. A government aide familiar with the raids said it is possible that the predominantly daytime operations — a departure from the Obama administration’s night raids — meant to “send a message to the community that the Trump deportation force is in effect.”

Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, said that the wave of detentions harks back to the George W. Bush administration, when workplace raids to sweep up all undocumented workers were common.

The Obama administration conducted a spate of raids and also pursued a more aggressive deportation policy than any previous president, sending more than 400,000 people back to their birth countries at the height of his deportations in 2012. The public outcry over the lengthy detentions and deportations of women, children and people with minor offenses led Obama in his second term to prioritize convicted criminals for deportation.

A DHS official confirmed that while immigration agents were targeting criminals, given the broader range defined by Trump’s executive order they also were sweeping up non-criminals in the vicinity who were found to be lacking documentation. It was unclear how many of the people detained would have been excluded under Obama’s policy.

Federal immigration officials, as well as activists, said that the majority of those detained were adult men, and that no children were taken into custody.

“Big cities tend to have a lot of illegal immigrants,” said one immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly due to the sensitive nature of the operation. “They’re going to a target-rich environment.”

Immigrant rights groups said that they were planning protests in response to the raids, including one Friday evening in Federal Plaza in New York City and a vigil in Los Angeles.

“We cannot understate the level of panic and terror that is running through many immigrant communities,” said Walter Barrientos of Make the Road New York in New York City, who spoke on a conference call with immigration advocates.

“We’re trying to make sure that families who have been impacted are getting legal services as quickly as possible. We’re trying to do some legal triage,” said Bob Libal, the executive director of Grassroots Leadership, which provides assistance and advocacy work to immigrants in Austin. “It’s chaotic,” he said. The organization’s hotline, he said, had been overwhelmed with calls.

Jeanette Vizguerra, 35, a Mexican house cleaner whose permit to stay in the country expired this week, said Friday during the conference call that she was newly apprehensive about her scheduled meeting with ICE next week.

Fearing deportation, Vizguerra, a Denver mother of four — including three who are U.S. citizens — said through an interpreter that she had called on activists and supporters to accompany her to the meeting.

“I know I need to mobilize my community, but I know my freedom is at risk here,” Vizguerra said.

Janell Ross in Los Angeles and Camille Pendley in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Dear Chris,

This week, Trump’s ICE agents launched a series of devastating home raids (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.24r/E49d1B5hSp2tZMGk769Pxg/h0/mb-2FqhNwiPwHg26xxrzU0i8Q9Frt-2Blva-2BeRc22g73iCE3qEOqec1u7R4XWuWlI9f1vqHwl76zw1-2Bm83MhKbyfNvpJQ4IqWoyRY9qz0Wh0gkd-2BFtcHQ8qodkvbLxTXZi2vG5Vfvkz5nJLSu191NzXJP7pNYEEv YntqrrNJVEYRXloBx-2BqiN4ar-2FVymNXFwPbUONC1Mr-2BsSea94TO4LcMgf02JogqvRlDBP-2FZ5n7HpywdkWnHaHnviGR6IX4SR5YlscR73xoBp2-2BhLq1eLnvnpQ4dZ-2BsPySToHHvyLrrpqtdLMumfKswKdfsvhjsnRWYsmyYs1XF3qQ jMSvcfUxZhXfIzs-2FSrULiTev2cPjaHqYfgHJl9NKLGjnwMX02ti3f9NCYechh-2FmzSN1VCXiObY8woFmCN1wpfVkQV7HnFMVElC-2BzWpDOlhRTolQwQgTrQ2x19oJc3o6DvnGuQp4eH0aEB6W9o4M wjB5orlCHgORe7TBhI7y8kW0DfJt-2Bgl8uH2yBa7TZrPyPFyLB4fgDSeN3RoOs3-2Bzijnjb19zHHBIZvUZKbvsZ6OcSeHKfjsYMVwJCTzYj1iF6On 1GHDNwLfrfbrmWCoGGst8d3d4b6YoyqBHfbU-2FkHlTETHrypEMQ9HdF5OSAyu-2BUC9WCYwNUQk8S2Bn006-2B6g-2BzhsBpYmm9xuKpqINzqjRKuOP5bUjr6uN7M) on immigrant communities across the country. With no warning, ICE stormed into the homes of hundreds of people, in many cases detaining everyone inside.

Stand up with us to keep families together. Click here to find an action near you right now or sign up to plan your own. (http://togetherforimmigrants.com/?link_id=1&can_id=3cdf51df4724d7ebfd54a77c2672a397&source=email-take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_referrer=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_subject=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-acci_n-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice)

This week’s home raids are part of the racist, anti-immigrant Trump administration’s campaign to spread fear and anxiety. Early Thursday morning, ICE agents deported Guadalupe, a long-time Arizona resident and mother, in front of her children, after a routine check in with immigration officials.

We will not back down because the Trump regime wants to hurt our families and communities. We will not stay quiet while they steal into our homes and workplaces. For Maru in Los Angeles, Leah and her mother Bertha in Miami, Marilu in Austin, Gale in New York, Jeannette in Colorado — we must stop the next raids before they happen.

It is up to us to demonstrate our outrage and defend our families, neighbors and friends. It is up to us to stop these deportations. It is up to us to show up.

Stand with Guadalupe, Maru, Leah, Bertha, Marilu, Gale and Jeannette. Click here to join or plan an action at a local Click here to join or plan an action at a local ICE or government office in your community. (http://togtherforimmigrants.com/?link_id=2&can_id=3cdf51df4724d7ebfd54a77c2672a397&source=email-take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_referrer=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_subject=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-acci_n-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice) or government office in your community.

Thank you for standing strong with us!

— Andrea

Estimada Chris,

Esta semana los agentes de inmigración de Trump lanzaron redadas devastadoras en comunidades inmigrantes alrededor del país. Sin aviso, ICE irrumpió en los hogares de cientos de personas, en muchos casos deteniendo a todas las personas adentro.

Únete con nosotras para mantener a las familias unidas. Haz clic aquí para encontrar una acción cerca de donde vives ahora mismo, o para planear tu propio evento. (http://togetherforimmigrants.com/?link_id=4&can_id=3cdf51df4724d7ebfd54a77c2672a397&source=email-take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_referrer=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_subject=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-acci_n-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice)

Las redadas esta semana son parte de la campaña racista y anti-migrante de la administración de Trump para crear miedo y ansiedad. El jueves en la mañana agentes de ICE deportaron a Guadalupe, una madre que había vivido en Arizona por muchos años, en frente de sus hijos, después de su check-in rutinario con ICE.

No nos rendiremos porque el régimen de Trump quiere lastimar a nuestras familias y comunidades. No nos quedaremos calladas mientras irrumpen nuestros hogares y lugares de trabajo. Para Maru en Los Angeles, Leah y su madre Bertha en Miami, Marilu en Austin, Gale en Nueva York, Jeanette en Colorado – debemos parar las siguientes redadas antes de que sucedan.

Tenemos que demostrar nuestra indignación y defender nuestras familias, [email protected] y [email protected] Tenemos que parar estas deportaciones. Depende de todas nosotras tomar acción ahora.

Alza tu voz para Guadalupe, Maru, Leah, Bertha, Marilu, Gale y Jeannette. Haz clic aquí para unirte a una acción en las oficinas locales de ICE o del gobierno en tu comunidad. (http://togetherforimmigrants.com/?link_id=5&can_id=3cdf51df4724d7ebfd54a77c2672a397&source=email-take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_referrer=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-accion-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice&email_subject=take-action-to-stop-the-ice-raids-toma-acci_n-paremos-las-redadas-de-ice)

Gracias por tomar acción con nosotras!

— Andrea

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Organize to defeat Trump’s Muslim ban (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=d3ef044e07&e=d323598fe4)

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By Danya Zituni

Tampa, FL - On Jan. 27, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” which bars entry of nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries regardless of whether they have valid visas, green cards or refugee status.

This is a racist attack that specifically targets the people of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. These same countries in the Middle East and Africa have been subjected to the terror of U.S. wars, bombings and economic sanctions for decades. With military bases in foreign lands, armed personnel in 130 countries, and a military budget larger than the next ten governments combined, the U.S. ruling class maintain a worldwide empire of oppression that is constantly at war.

Sovereign governments that dare not bow to U.S. political and economic domination are punished with crippling sanctions as a form of collective punishment against civilians, and are targeted for brutal overthrow through direct invasion or proxy groups. Sanctions on Iran alone have resulted in massive inflation and 40% of the entire population in poverty, while the total death toll from ten years of the U.S.-led ‘War on Terror is estimated at 2 million lives, according to a study from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Trump’s executive order calls for a review of the visa and refugee programs arguing “numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in terrorism-related crimes since Sept. 11, 2001.” But why should people perceive ‘foreign-born terrorists’ as grave domestic threats when the FBI continually manufactures its own plots? In 2012, Petra Bartosiewicz in The Nation reviewed the post-9/11 body of terrorism cases and concluded that nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government informant. Many informants are incentivized by money, and can be paid as much as $100,000 per assignment. The U.S. government provides the weapons, suggests the targets, and entraps Muslims to justify their ‘War on Terror.’

The billions invested yearly by the U.S. government into racist state repression and genocidal wars for corporate profit could instead be used to finance and improve education, health care, people's rights and welfare. However, it is not in the interests of bank-bailing and investor-driven politicians to make such radical changes a reality. Only through organizing independent of the political establishment controlled by and built for the rich can oppressed people harness and exercise our collective power as a conscious and united force to demand change. Through coordinated action we are saying that there can be no ‘business as usual’ until our demands are met, and that the ruling class who own everything in society can’t actually produce anything or make schools run without subservient students or workers.

A federal judge issued a temporary halt on Feb. 4 against the Muslim ban after tens of thousands of people protested in airports, communities and campuses across the country. Around 1000 Yemini owned stores closed for eight hours on Feb. 2 in the city of New York. Grassroots, mass-based organizations such as Arab American Action Network (AAAN) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have continued to organize and raise demands for sanctuary campuses and cities. The Council on American and Islamic Relations (CAIR) has engaged in a legal battle with the Trump administration over the ban.

Additionally, one of the biggest victories for Muslim communities recently was the dismantling of a long existent bi-partisan Muslim registry called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). NSEERS devastated our communities, alongside aggressive FBI surveillance and vicious entrapment. Thousands of families were torn apart, jobs were lost; some communities never fully recovered. Only after 14 years of almost constant organizing by groups such as Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) was it successfully dismantled.

The lesson of our recent victories, and nearly every historic struggle that won people's basic rights under this system, is that we need to build organizational power opposed to both parties of the capitalist 1% and their oppressive policies. Organizing paves the way for people to learn through struggle the necessity of organization as a means to protect their rights and welfare, a lesson we must consistently summate when educating our communities about their rights.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Community Advisory: Global Entry Revocation


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Community Advisory: Global Entry Revocation

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has received reports that immediately following the presidential election in November, persons who were granted access to the Global Entry program had the privilege revoked by Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection.

If you have had your Global Entry privilege revoked, please contact ADC immediately by emailing the ADC Legal Department to [email protected] ([email protected]). In the email please include the date your Global Entry privilege was denied. Also, please include your contact information.

Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the United States. Members enter the United States through automatic kiosks at select airports.

You can also call our office at 202-244-2990. You can also email ADC Legal Department at [email protected] for additional information.



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Breaking: ADC Reaffirms Position on CVE/CIV; Prepares for Legal Fight


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ADC Reaffirms Position on CVE/CIV; Prepares for Legal Fight

Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r615GBUQm73hDPOJ%2FU29sG0KzBSJwa5g) | February 13, 2017 - ADC reaffirms our steadfast opposition to the government program known as Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Since the inception of the program ADC has never wavered on our opposition to the program in its entirety. As the Trump administration works to make troubling changes to the program, ADC is preparing for a legal fight. We will not stand by as our government continues to criminalize the Arab and Muslim American communities. Unfortunately, CVE is made possible because of the assistance from Arab and Muslim community organizations. It is time for these organizations to stand on principle and disconnect themselves form CVE related programs.

In January a number of community organizations were awarded grants to conduct CVE (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W0e9Mwzv9P4TnJvbd6zRum0KzBSJwa5g) and surveillance programs across the country. This past summer ADC came out unequivocally against the grant program, and urged community organizations against applying. Notwithstanding our warnings and concerns a number of organizations did apply for the funding. Despite coming at the 11th hour, some organizations are heeding to public pressure and rejecting the grant money. Some have yet to reject the money, clearly putting financial interests over the interest of the community.

Those who have rejected the money must work to regain the trust of the community. Organizations must be transparent with the community and provide a detailed explanation as to their involvement in CVE programs. Additionally, they should release a copy of the grant application submitted to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These organizations must immediately suspend any and all activity pertaining to government led CVE programs.

Finally, there have been reports that the Trump administration will change the name of the program to Countering Islamic Violence (CIV) (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UyXDvqcA54DYGA9dU%2BhaGSGTHZSw0K3x). This signals an outward and public acknowledgment that the program targets Arab and Muslim Americans. The focus on the community goes beyond a name change. Continued implementation of the program will contribute to the ongoing chilling effect on the Arab and Muslim communities. ADC has begun reviewing all legal options aimed at challenging continued implementation of the CVE/CIV program.

Attorneys who are interested in assisting in the pending legal action can fill out this form to learn about next steps and how you can be involved (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zAuiJyQFl8AfvFL6ghf0qm0KzBSJwa5g).

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WATCH LIVE: Kids demand LOVE not hate this Valentine’s Day!//Unete ahora: [email protected] niñ@s exigen AMOR no odio este Día de San Valentin

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Dear Chris,

Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love, so why is Miami Mayor Carlos Giménez spreading hate?

In January, right after Trump signed his racist, anti-immigrant executive order cutting funding for sanctuary cities, Miami Mayor Carlos Giménez announced that he would end Miami’s sanctuary city status, putting thousands of Miami residents in danger.

Kids in Miami are not letting him get away with it. "We collected letters for the Mayor with one simple wish that families could stay together for the holidays and for ever. Giménez is denying us our wish," explains Elena.

Elena is 17 years old. Her dad was deported six years ago. She and her sister Angelica live in constant fear that Trump’s immigration agents will steal their mother from them at any moment.

That’s why she’s joining together with other children to deliver hundreds of broken hearts to Mayor Giménez today to demand that he protect local families and stand up to Trump’s hate. You can watch Angelica and the other kids deliver their wishes to Mayor Giménez live on Facebook. Click here to tune in now! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/6gA/ni0YAA/t.24u/rbE-zj2ETBejvs0oMW_I-A/h0/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiCNhaXR7mITrawlsZh-2FEzGDjk9s1LC98MxZtS9roHmxltq3fXr9nZmywaNUhkM9gfhc GCCe8AS-2FppZ3nq8VqFMwgXpPUX6f6njERAtbL7UKTUtPPhh-2FVvROc24erSXKvBdSLVthUqU2npk158yOzHi8aNEcb6V-2BSXEUYH9PR-2FNLweQbYTdbhaBsst-2BWvDZ1xRzNI1uaqgx4PAdi2FMYhzLlVrzVtGE8Uf4fA-2Bguj3zQ3MDRiSl-2Bbn6eYzuNRHkLQ4-2BdDOwWPD-2BU-2Fuzm41Ewy-2F-2FvXGU11ZdcZJih5LJAorw2fNEwdSO9LetslcnT-2FaoZkwAK9N-2BdAUV42MD06FJT4kYg8-2FBBc7fv2-2BZmwlmCox6N-2FopDe5RDishPvtXw1O5uCDULhCJl1FJe8h-2BRCG1UszDwbAnNBOMZbujhG9CRleMn8qoxqONLKKEvzIR8pUR QAGGPGLTEuhK1k8iIMio5Km11GyQ-2BP61oC5DQTS0hoXxNSSoXCINGR1OvLmDqIXAdMdsj1U4hIdli e3Dh2TGFuvmLFxefsr3E5buTGVlPDr6SAheCk6-2FWh7ok4RYSRgJl5YnwFjHKBavDO30o9qouuJuPUHHt-2BGle1bhRbKCMS5VkIvsRSKZkwJP1RqFnh2EScDbnuJvrGnWjs ZFOvpCsJnMQg9L9aiUBSTsK-2FNLgGyVEE)

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Trump’s racist, anti-immigrant administration is ratcheting up enforcement and attempting to spread terror throughout our communities through raids in our homes and workplaces. But we are fighting back and standing up to Trump and his fearmongering. While Elena and her friends deliver their petitions to Mayor Giménez, mothers in Miami are fasting to demand that he stand up to Trump’s hate.

Tune in to Facebook right now (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/6gA/ni0YAA/t.24u/rbE-zj2ETBejvs0oMW_I-A/h1/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiCNhaXR7mITrawlsZh-2FEzGDjk9s1LC98MxZtS9roHmxltq3fXr9nZmywaNUhkM9gfiA uJrL8k4WA1AUNZrOF-2FX5OZn5FpQahPv93i7w2L2crT3BI-2F8tzAXPJf57QKgW0vMP1Ws6TBeVf9ksyTVVwCho2OoOkEYEFv ZhOHadbphTikV-2FroeN4W5xv6yrDVLJrTY7miL7OY-2BVTXjIk9Hc9hCZHJqUn8c8toeFBChak3K-2FDk86hQFlbUOgsSQn4zMPDLgDxF4l68tL2OA8TErh37cieQe9 1eLMrcOmuCaXRqBivzXeRYtv-2FTIVc-2BXc-2BWcGTGa3eklaH94VOLMfixx0KR-2FPPdDcmkFZJslIw4VizXJtcuHbUjqQAh5whj80bfU-2BQcykqUvByu722olzR-2BCAsJrgp7hRgcIy7DCtMac1nqw5jrB89PYAwy2T-2FWDqtvoYQpDDabMB4FhOzHgIwKXmUbhPJBLQHBhGJJ5EVZ-2BH754IRcfhlP-2BUfFlR7SzumuphOr1oYkiRgNA49hEaEMuAhFOkTnZQP-2FcDsi0aiDkhM2juCc8VZpXgECEQYc1qaOxzqfGNu-2BmiqvICkm5KUwisERBZVmrsb4Eos-2BeKhba2rfLxlvn2-2BACxCS96e-2B8dnL1dVedXaGzChpCnD4B77ChxJh5TjP3aiFTG2uaLrxF-2FWUN3Z) to watch Elena and her friends stand up to Trump’s hate. And stay tuned for more ways that you can fight back with us this week.

With love,

Andrea, on behalf of the entire We Belong Together Team


Estimada Chris,
El Día de San Valentín es una celebración del amor, entonces ¿por qué el alcalde de Miami, Carlos Giménez, promueve tanto odio?

En enero, justo después de que Trump firmó su orden ejecutiva racista y anti-migrante para recortar fondos para ciudades santuarios, el alcalde de Miami, Carlos Gimenez, anunció que eliminaría el estatus de santuario de la ciudad, poniendo en peligro a miles de familias en Miami.

[email protected] niñ@s de Miami no permitirán este odio. "Recogimos cartas para el Alcalde con un simple deseo que las familias puedan permanecer unidas para siempre. Giménez quiere negar nuestro deseo", explica Elena.

Elena tiene 17 años. Su padre fue deportado hace seis años. Ella y su hermana Angélica viven con el constante temor de que los agentes de inmigración de Trump lleven a su madre en cualquier momento.

Es por eso que se está uniendo con [email protected] niñ@s para entregar cientos de corazones rotos al Alcalde Giménez hoy para exigir que proteja a las familias y resista el odio de Trump. Usted puede ver a Elena y [email protected] [email protected] niñ@s entregar sus deseos al alcalde Giménez en vivo en Facebook. Haga clic aquí para [email protected] ahora! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/6gA/ni0YAA/t.24u/rbE-zj2ETBejvs0oMW_I-A/h2/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiCNhaXR7mITrawlsZh-2FEzGDjk9s1LC98MxZtS9roHmxltq3fXr9nZmywaNUhkM9gfgd YzkNFLL-2FMWocnByRGVPX5CbW3OaAOHBnyW6uX9-2FoYlyH5-2FyMuLJRD3pzM-2Bz2kxfM-2FZu2W6POF8ZhwjW2C39xUg7hDIczg-2BosJ22iXjHhUdivJMelJAq8XbsIutCl05iqmWeFnBz2rSI6vu pz-2BnSjrrV9itUFhbOjXWUq52Vtb8rwrHWWCfFLm1r4W9u391M-2FkpiETDaOCWrR5YiAZ9RuOcFDd9StY7EoxNE7Ksz8N77GT43F QG8dM7gnZWomgsSQj5sufTQoVsJ3T6sOxqTzUsQfe36nRGopKu SOJKA54NyckyhcrhM-2F0roNTXZBaoZlzzVjCywFEWyRs7-2BORCuYZ9mBGVavGmcIBZ6uaI9CIRlzui-2F46YaFV7RpP9EqJW98D3LpwBjUxFWXX5OyCRvzJjhcnrv-2F79Y0DQRpfWOev43F8v93rUrSA1dbLqSBomQMQceHUisdO0yw 21myqTZ-2FHoOpoKNC5jn9UFCuXikAVqKy6u239lCAZSIs45Sl2qb3NbtV nkuuDipVXsCJK64r8mE-2F-2F7tJnqyZ0EFr-2FtqNaLkdM7GANXLOF0N4D7QHbvT1GDsoLyTHXAv3sfBMINZTn 4YxJKJP51tc7d-2BXDyWOi)

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La administración racista y anti-migrante de Trump está tratando de difundir el terror en nuestras comunidades a través de incursiones en nuestros hogares y lugares de trabajo. Pero estamos luchando contra Trump y su miedo. Mientras Elena y sus [email protected] entregan sus peticiones al alcalde Giménez, las madres de Miami están ayunando para exigir que el alcalde resista el odio de Trump.

Únete a la acción por Facebook ahora mismo (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/6gA/ni0YAA/t.24u/rbE-zj2ETBejvs0oMW_I-A/h3/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiCNhaXR7mITrawlsZh-2FEzGDjk9s1LC98MxZtS9roHmxltq3fXr9nZmywaNUhkM9gfiQ-2FDM8D257oxrYIXA-2Bnqjux0EZfluaDBDZYEQ0uWpm1Mve8Qi1q78Bqo0ieEuaZPir 4IFsd11qWHdC5jKdZar4hpboxTxsecvxXKWxZ2Ae0oOnPLj7KD 6O5tRbZ-2FjsHmjOINtiWUfSP-2Bq6qZn2c-2FmSYAmDYj3WVdo48j2NyjXjGAZdGt9VBg3RByB9kFt8lG3Iiy T2a8vNINc-2FzIFXwWNmbqmd3q4k95p5h1TqbGzxGYARIPNlI0quHhrmEqAi OVcYp4SWmNOecIWX2pmWIgXrco6sGHDeRvtBEC6hLajBl7jW-2F8Nr1tk3sEjr5m-2Bid2Awjqm10yP03uuoYK7uGykLk8PQsUHT7cVUoC6-2FjQ297-2BdUWKkDIQhRu-2FhIOqvrnsFqDc-2BC-2Fntn9Lr2LhcTE8UkwyJx9W7Aa9-2F-2FAJHarAPPphXJWLNGCjISKLqv9q9-2BkzwOt0DHL60XbLzsnsXM-2FmJ3eqJZOU25oChl1Z0w8gz029WkYZzqdLZ8r8933lCRmRaL3 UpBE-2FEWxuV-2Bk00lAQJB34uEOv8z6L7-2F4RUTmYFVrhqSW36TKhQM6KXGMO83ingJ8yXzdV6tP-2FQlV0ACQ8ANnKh9eRYMFbDS4SIkxTKbE) para ver a Elena y a sus [email protected] decir NO MÁS al odio de Trump. Y permanezca atenta para más maneras de luchar con nosotras esta semana.

Con amor,

Andrea, de parte de todo el equipo de Nos Mantenemos Unidas


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Jeanette Vizguerra Resists ICE and Enters Sanctuary // Jeanette Vizguerra Resiste ICE y entra en Santuario


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Dear Chris,

Earlier this morning, Jeanette and her children were granted refuge by a church in Denver to escape Trump’s ICE agents.

“Seeing what happened to Guadalupe made me concerned for my own children,” explains Jeanette. ICE deported Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a mother of two, from Phoenix, Arizona after a routine check-in last week. Faced with her own routine ICE check-in this morning, Jeanette made the difficult decision to go into sanctuary rather than expose her family to the dangers of Trump’s agents. Now it’s time for us to stand with Jeanette and demand that ICE stop her deportation so that she and her children can return home in peace. Click here to tell ICE to keep Jeanette’s family together. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.24v/BHq20a8STGax0ZwnZOyI7Q/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3A5iwEoOw38K-2F1jcNT-2FRlvZfiAZPVQfeR7IKC9cD2xk74OJYLJl3ZmJaL1-2B7-2BylCBRMdd4e4g48t6hRgKXqrnPl8vT-2Bg45EfEc0RYcRDFHE-2FbTOQmY2fv8XMjyR3i-2BwOe33p1oFldHCyrMWwIQkAioUqnUGsjZGKwWeURY2BDbI5vn ZDvdk6jy7M3Tknb1LULZElUC6KIewNF-2BGquaMjllTSlkSe15WzLAt-2FuhDtI1tDBzS3QLnKBW7w7mqYt5wCK8dDEPvcm9UAlafR7ACx LtubdMffppLNlKJj-2FvaxMcPg3QfMcrqVxn0sjjdaHgMNdJksOOwQTcL3SglRGHEWI qZiKX1QOM47tFb5FY8hvk8WFhaA3do3DgAVhacOuSbq1M62lga BJmZe3c8aGwUa6a9A4Jm1HzTAOa6NRV2fZ9zl5YIDgf8XGhufq xXLjThoHVrvEr-2B4bi7K8VeIU9rZiNz6JnRfvAlPCYqfqZ82QGuSoHXOi3C-2BMWeuH6sJFXNHzyKFplUndwF9XUanMHi-2Bcr6ZqBJq8dO6DJzWn64s9EjTk2QSQb3nQ7j5DFejlQPIb7KP 303geX7lFtwO-2FYV5wNB)

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Jeanette will not let Trump’s anti-immigrant hate tear her family apart. She will not let his fear-mongering win. For two decades, she has made her home in Colorado, raising her children, Luna, Roberto, and Zury while working as a house cleaner and janitor, caring for her husband as he battled cancer, and standing up for the rights of workers and immigrant families in her community. She’s not letting Trump’s ICE agents steal all of that away.

Guadalupe’s deportation and the home and workplace raids that have torn our communities apart are part of Trump’s effort to spread fear across immigrant communities nationwide. Jeanette’s stand is part of our movement’s growing national opposition and commitment to protect our families and neighbors. Stand with her right to freedom. Click here to demand that ICE stop Jeanette’s deportation immediately. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.24v/BHq20a8STGax0ZwnZOyI7Q/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3A5iwEoOw38K-2F1jcNT-2FRlvZfiAZPVQfeR7IKC9cD2xk77ecFTyEze-2BuB40d8oX0XWf6oh8oWwnvABTXu835XZs9iEsIlTgkUA8occ-2BXdcABhb0L51j96eqaWgv0gI7LZ-2FqTfIlMU6CNCDf3p7nBJ3ibyu31ri38LFOb59KPkzQfUF35-2FASD-2BfBgsK5C-2B550LAARjLcLLE3Wx0eORTY2tjXbx1z-2Blijs9IeSES1EJhBlgJcVtSrl8nL2w-2BdYaksCei5BIn-2BXsFVMfP85okFYXhTnIhX7DlxZhATwagv-2BBRnpfLS9SKw9m22aixQMYacInaCmNTHKoAD4iCspCXS-2FMYHNksie5EBEkPFLE7pDmK38afwoi-2FjnevRzfkcMsEy-2F93LBNT2LCtQH3EhTpRWPvXwmNadAoGcuAkcdU5gKoDJnU0ak mK8UCXoXkpphIgaqqwo-2FkPVHFmbSnOmtfr-2BeY0z2e4NpaNk-2F3RV7ICTrfoWNnFRwlUgT2yTTJa6-2BBkwTFdXwhsgRopX7jvB9Hk6SUVinhR8qH8IUzISMnpfQH0t5 YpdAjHoVz0dLGh360MTST2psKusQbqojsj-2BGCAGhrK-2BF)

With courageous women like Jeanette in the lead, we will take on Trump’s anti-immigrant hate.

Thank you for taking a stand with Jeanette today.

– Anna, on behalf of the entire We Belong Together team

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Estimada Chris,

Esta mañana, Jeanette y sus [email protected] recibieron refugio en una iglesia en Denver para escapar los agentes de ICE del Presidente Trump.

“Viendo lo que paso con Guadalupe me hizo preocupar por mis propios hijos,” explico Jeanette.

ICE deportó a Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, una madre de dos hijos de Phoenix, Arizona, en su check in rutinario con ICE la semana pasada. Enfrentando su propio check in con ICE, Jeanette tomó la decisión difícil de refugiarse en una iglesia en Denver en vez de arriesgar a su familia con los agentes migratorios del régimen de Trump.

Ahora nos toca a nosotras luchar con Jeanette y exigir que ICE pare su deportación para que ella y sus [email protected] puedan regresar a su casa y vivir en paz. Haz clic aquí para decir a ICE que mantengan a Jeanette con su familia. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.24v/BHq20a8STGax0ZwnZOyI7Q/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3A5iwEoOw38K-2F1jcNT-2FRlvZfiAZPVQfeR7IKC9cD2xk7x0d85HnVxYMzmzdveU26ls5 tsWVE4bDDSapqoN5Gy95IgumX2JBYNWmXgT014QQXVjFS5jo06 a0KGy3gsAiOdI9rWLOF6adQB5wU8DfUWuQ4lvMCkSSC7uai3gP NiYLNN-2FkbvVedHo5nFCXa9MS7Xh-2BkU4c-2FhrkfnlT4oCtxcmrNF0iwYLaILlpIy391V21OqqSoY-2FJQ9B1bKWA7OpNJI-2F-2F7xFGUpo0HA3AyLbXggZMWBke-2FVat2MQmNT-2BwAqYLV9A5Ea85HqWyIa10akOV8Fqjgsoxe6AOdaXO-2FJsZONnuw7AYl615gXsMcjO4TGQLrdPo-2FX-2B2S1EXnmw6WRUnWJx-2BAQjPiS1ct7C717v3zvt1U-2F-2FchjuIlQrbHpSJVR-2BaE4WFiXhOBKviojx2JwpqWMiUXGZvrVsCB-2B2CRcZDip5-2BwR-2Fx-2Bzn-2F7R7-2FSyaNzFZPl7CIimwt3YJ9KBu5xCqu4jyf6LO7ccwf7Q-2FR4QvfBXeZ9KI6lGudquMICIGWW-2BLoqvYysCTIXA5boSRR7jzY2MztX8HotRBgmq7d73GrusOk)

Jeanette no permitirá que el odio anti-migrante de Trump separe a su familia. No permitirá que gane el miedo. Durante dos décadas Jeanette ha vivido en Colorado, criando a sus [email protected] Luna, Roberto, y Zury, mientras trabajaba como trabajadora del hogar y janitor, cuidaba a su esposo que tiene cáncer, y luchaba para los derechos de [email protected] [email protected] y familias inmigrantes en su comunidad. Ella no permitirá que los agentes de ICE le roben todo eso como parte de su campaña de terror y odio.

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La deportación de Guadalupe y las recientes redadas de ICE en hogares y lugares de trabajo que están atacando nuestras comunidades son parte de la campaña de Trump de difundir el miedo en comunidades inmigrantes alrededor del país. Esta acción de Jeanette es parte de un movimiento creciente de resistencia nacional y un compromiso a proteger a nuestras familias y [email protected] Haz clic aquí para exigir que ICE pare la deportación de Jeanette inmediatamente. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.24v/BHq20a8STGax0ZwnZOyI7Q/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3A5iwEoOw38K-2F1jcNT-2FRlvZfiAZPVQfeR7IKC9cD2xk74tktgkSqzhVUXVS8VzWuGj9 ad2jSUUTf1ORhy5PlGIhClQlmKQAWkAAYEhMzmyDWcKq-2ByWaZwU1DDlBPBw9EGzGM2-2Fo45rfu8IMZwhRR3bHDhgyRSl-2F1u34HHfO69tvZiuHe3VBzL9aK84Q-2FjaJbb5kGmy11Epw3su9KDtDatDc50Me-2BaabvsQMPGtLBYq9X5gaUEHrUUMwYeSrMT9a9AiUiSZkB4Aci lNYd9d15tJWQE-2FqkoZ33bE3ys8TxYRzklGe86b8MtjL4Ynavnh-2Fwpb8xzmVxlP75yyMRSS7ORKnIC8loj9J7yPjD-2BV3f3xq-2BMFDUSQ7TUSNOqvU0r9X4T929Xu0lHJLzsnyo1wH5YiE7YAFr URHJ0jkYymFn5tR-2F7CnSP-2B9mLDQah3kuDp4FkcZHVT3aXcaewkNL6x9cNy5T4KBj3BrRy-2B4J-2BRjbmaXG7OL6BoLRPInYIk2PWzkS6tJ0yjeKNH3p68CFuVtdv UVVl2XLRBsyXZb3wR6bVLsMl9CDbIypB9bKwa00E-2Bp6iyEsmCWRzn7NjBLvRu2nR3B)

Con mujeres valientes como Jeanette guiándonos, resistiremos el odio anti-migrante de Trump.

Gracias por tomar acción con Jeanette el dia de hoy.

– Anna, de parte de todo el equipo de Nos Mantenemos Unidas

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Release Daniel from detention!


Chris--

In Seattle, a father named Daniel Ramirez Medina has been detained by ICE agents for days. Daniel has DACA and is authorized to work in the US.

If Daniel, a father to a three-year-old son and who has been here since he was seven, isn't safe we are all at risk for deportation.

We're delivering a petition to Secretary Kelly, the head of DHS this week. Sign the petition to #FreeDaniel and protect the DACA program so we have as many signatures as possible when we deliver. (https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/release-immigrant-father-from-detention-now-freedaniel/?source=MO)

Daniel must be given his freedom, now. Donald Trump's executive orders have made everyone a priority for deportation. In Trump's America, no one is safe. Donald Trump, Secretary Kelly, and Republicans must say in no uncertain terms that DACA recipients are safe. DACA is a program that provides young undocumented immigrants a work permit and protects them from deportation. Daniel and other DACA recipients should not be at risk for deportation.

Daniel is only one of hundreds of immigrants who have been invaded by ICE at their homes and workplaces and could be deported, regardless of their status. ICE has deported mothers who have lived here for over 20 years. ICE has demanded papers from U.S. citizens.

Secretary Kelly needs to release Daniel NOW and declare DACA recipients safe.

Sign the petition now:

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She needed help, she got arrested


Dear Chris,

Last week, Ervin Gonzalez, an undocumented El Paso woman and domestic abuse survivor, was ambushed and arrested inside a courthouse just as the judge was granting her a protective order from her abuser.1

It gets worse: her attorneys believe that it was her abuser who tipped federal immigration agents about her undocumented status. This likely violates provisions in the Violence Against Women Act.2

This is horrifying and should not have happened. Undocumented survivors already avoid reporting their abusers for fear of deportation or being separated from their children.

Chris, this is not who we are. It's up to us to stand together to protect each other.

The good news is that this story has gotten widespread attention overnight. Immigration officials have discretionary authority--that means they can choose to release Gonzalez and stop targeting immigrant survivors. If thousands of us generate enough outrage while this story is still in the headlines, immigration officials will be pressured to release Gonzalez and stop targeting survivors of violence for deportation.

Tell U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan: Release Ervin Gonzalez. Stop targeting survivors of domestic abuse!


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Donald Trump is making good on his promise to deport immigrants and tear up families. Just last week, hundreds of immigrants across six states were ambushed in their homes and at work to be deported.3

Even El Paso officials were alarmed that immigration agents picked up Gonzalez--El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar said the "fact that this occurred in a protective-order court is shocking."4

But Gonzalez and immigrant survivors are supposed to be protected by the federal Violence Against Women Act, which protects immigrant survivors from detention and deportation. Certain provisions protect immigrant survivors from being reported by their abuser and from being detained in a courthouse when reporting their abuse. And as a transgender woman, Gonzalez faces an especially horrific time into detention--transgender women are either kept in solitary confinement or are forced in detention with men, making them a target for sexual assault.5

Yesterday, the public successfully took out one of Trump's cabinet picks for domestic abuse charges.6 Right now, the administration doesn't want to be seen as a predator to women and survivors. If enough of us speak out against Trump's deportation machine for targeting abused women, we can force Gonzalez's release and stop immigration officials from targeting survivors.

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Sources:

1. ICE detains alleged domestic violence victim, El Paso Times, February 15, 2017

2. Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Confidentiality Provisions at DHS, Department of Homeland Security, accessed February 16, 2017

3. Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states, Washington Post, February 11, 2017

4. Report: ICE detains domestic violence victim in court, The Hill, February 15, 2016

5. Transgender Women Fear Abuse in Immigration Detention, New York Times, January 10, 2017

6. Andrew Puzder withdraws as a labor secretary nominee, CNN, February 15, 2017


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Free Innocent Father and “Dreamer” Daniel Ramirez Medina


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Chris,

Daniel Ramirez Medina is 23 years old, has a legitimate work permit under DACA, is a father and has no criminal record. Yet he was arrested earlier this month because he came here as a young child and did not have documentation.

This arrest sets a dangerous precedent for other "dreamers" and we cannot stand by and let it happen! (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Axdo1/zSIx/t8hl)

Over 750,000 people received work permits under President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, started in 2012. This group of people are also known as "dreamers". When one gets arrested, it opens up the potential for nearly a million other illegitimate arrests. These people are law-abiding, hard-working residents of the United States. Deportation is not the answer - no human is illegal.

Daniel Ramirez Medina has no criminal record. He did nothing to deserve an arrest, and under President Trump, this could be setting a dangerous precedent of millions more devastating deportations. Sign now to tell Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly: free Daniel Ramirez Medina! End the unjust arrests! (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Axdo1/zSIx/t8hl)

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By Fight Back! Editors

The Trump administration has been discussing a proposal to mobilize up to 100,000 National Guard troops in the four states bordering Mexico (California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) as well as seven more bordering these states (Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana). The National Guard would be used for a massive round-up and deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, which Trump has pledged to do. The round-up would be based on Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order, which expands to the target of deportations to virtually at least eight of the 11 million undocumented.

In addition, this executive order called for the expansion of the 287(g) program, the so-called “Secure Communities” which would be used to authorize the National Guard to round up immigrants for deportation. The executive order also called for a crack-down on local institutions that are considered sanctuary cities or on colleges that state that they will not act on the behalf of ICE.

The use of the National Guard, a domestic military force, would be a form of military occupation of the historic territory of the Chicano nation. In the Southwest, the descendants of Mexican settlers and immigrants have evolved into a nation that shares a common culture, economy and land in southern and central California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Colorado, and southern and western Texas - the areas targeted by the proposed mobilization of the National Guard.

For more than a century immigrants from Mexico, driven by poverty resulting from the U.S. domination of Mexico, and drawn by American farms and businesses seeking cheap labor, have been coming to the American Southwest, strengthening the Chicano population and nation. More recently, growing numbers of immigrants from Central American have joined in the migration to the U.S.

The liberal wing of the ruling rich wants to both divide (through deportations) and incorporate (through legalization) Mexican and Central American immigrants and guarantee a continued supply of cheap temporary workers through Comprehensive Immigration Reform. However the right wing, represented by President Trump, is growing more fearful of the ‘Browning of America’ and wants to both deport the undocumented immigrants as well as cut back on legal immigration. A military deportation force of National Guard would do both by deporting millions of undocumented while terrorizing the legal immigrants and citizens who are the family, friends, neighbors and co-workers with the undocumented.

The editors of Fight Back! urge all our readers to oppose any Trump plans for mass deportations. We see the struggle of Chicanos, Mexicanos and Central Americans - as well as other oppressed nationalities such as African Americans, and indigenous people - for full equality as revolutionary movements, and we support the right to self-determination, up to and including independence from the U.S. for the Chicano and other oppressed nations in the U.S.

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The memo sketched out plans for many more immigrants to be kept in prison; for 5,000 more border patrol agents to be hired; for any aid to the government of Mexico to be identified (presumably in order to end it); for construction to begin on a wall along the border; for immigrants to be deported without hearings or reviews; and for negotiations to be opened with the governors of 11 states to turn State Guard troops into immigration law enforcers -- investigating, apprehending and imprisoning immigrants.

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Iranian student hit by Muslim ban, Tampa Bay students rally to bring him home (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=32c1e85da5&e=d323598fe4)

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By Elizabeth Kramer

Tampa, FL - On Tuesday, Feb 14, more than 20 students at the University of South Florida (USF) gathered to demand that the administration bring Iranian student Mehdi Zeyghami home. The rally, which began at 12 noon, marked the beginning of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) new campaign: “Sanctuary for All.”

Due to the Trump administration’s recent Muslim ban, which bars entry of nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, USF student Mehdi Zeyghami was denied re-entry into the country. Additionally, USF administration put a punitive freeze on all of Zeyghami’s accounts on university servers after his participation in an interview for an article published by the Tampa Bay Times. This freeze has isolated Zeyghami from his peers and has ensured that he cannot finish his education at USF.

Though USF administration claims to care about their students and hopes to encourage an environment of diversity, Zeyghami’s case is not an oddity. USF administration has a long history of repressing students and teachers, especially if they’re Muslim or Arab. One such case was that of Sami Al-Arian, a renowned and outspoken Palestinian-American civil rights activist and professor at the university from 1986 to 2003. In a now nationally recognized case of violation of First Amendment rights and academic freedom, Al-Arian was fired from USF and was later deported from the U.S. for supposed ties to a ‘terrorist’ group.

The Trump administration’s policies of hate, such as the Muslim ban, present further opportunities for USF and other universities to exercise racist policies that restrict who is allowed access to higher education and who might teach it.

It was because of the Muslim ban, cases such as Sami Al-Arian’s, and USF administration’s recent handling of the Mehdi Zeyghami case that Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) started their Sanctuary for All campaign, and organized the rally, alongside Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), to bring Mehdi home.

The rally began with a variety of chants including, “USF shame on you! Mehdi is a student too!” There were also several speeches featured, from members of SDS and SJP.

“Our new long term campaign is working towards USF becoming a sanctuary campus. This entails USF taking an active stance against racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic policies to protect everyone involved with USF: Students, faculty, staff, etc. Mehdi is one of us and deserves to finish his education at USF, a university that claims to have its students’ best interests at heart,” said SDS member and emcee of the event, Ennya Blaize (pronouns: they/them).

Blaize was followed by SJP member, Rahma Elmohd, who in a speech said, “It is our responsibility as students at this university to demand that USF publicly support Mehdi’s return to the U.S. It is our responsibility to demand Mehdi is provided a full-time lawyer for his case and cases like his. It is our responsibility to demand that USF become a sanctuary campus for all students, so that no student is robbed of their education.”

After several more chants and another speaker, the final speech was given by SDS member, Chrisley Carpio, who said, “The ruling class won't tell the story of Tampa students who said ‘no’ to keeping Mehdi out of the U.S., ‘no’ to the ban on Arab and Muslim immigration, ‘no’ to a registry for Muslims in the U.S. It'll be up to us to spread the word about this demand, get more students on our side, and break the myth that we are doomed to suffering, because we have no power. We do have power. It lies in our history, in our education and in our ability to resist by any means necessary. We're just getting started!”

SDS ended the event with the chant, “What do we want? Bring Mehdi home! When do we want it? Now!”

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Families and asylum seekers don't belong in jail


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Dear Chris,

Families and asylum seekers are being locked up in immigration detention centers at unprecedented rates—and the Trump Administration only plans to increase it. These policies not only harm the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children and asylum seekers, they also undermine due process and cost millions in taxpayer dollars.

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One year ago Pennsylvania declined to renew a childcare license to the Berks family detention center—but children and their parents are still being held there. And over the last fiscal year, the U.S. government has likely detained at least 100,000 asylum seekers.

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Sincerely,

Jennifer Quigley
Advocacy Strategist, Refugee Protection


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We can protect each other from Trump’s hate! // ¡Protejámonos del odio de Trump!


We Belong Together


Dear Chris,

We are organized. We are powerful. We are not afraid.

Earlier this month, ICE agents detained Ms. Gonzalez, an undocumented transgender woman and domestic violence survivor in El Paso, TX, in the courthouse where she was seeking an order of protection from her abuser. We will not allow Trump’s ICE agents to turn courthouses and places of refuge like churches and schools into danger zones.

Click here to tell ICE Director Homan to release Ms. Gonzalez immediately. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.253/I1Ie_bf7Sp2y3WLWDF6Gyg/h0/XAUgr14SMg1orV4eH-2BkndlD5Ya08MYLuvd-2FNiA-2F4Gwc-2FX2EYS-2FLWbWzUbcWSlRPMy8ytAcP7kBV-2BqRsMliTp5uCh2ztKS5xJF2ZnsD0fxVkC0GN4MQyjbmetHBaQ VYNd9UyYfx9BZEe-2BFgCEjPoqPphMEOP0Y3J8MNdFA4726DlMoPyYcrAXMJGl6XHT KlCUVbIzPZM-2Fj0BfTX-2F15fzfVk9x3kFyDSOUbUryPIECEKd2pShZNNwSA8IUJhpjLRF w23UP27iEWO0SBtkSpmj3sM-2B0pRvty1-2FIfKh9KtkP5ssztNbpb8v6L5EFcmfBCXkkFMgpsnbgMiZt5bJ mHjdbZkMhdWETVSz7rwxY8pnJ6w4AXkH9HGoFo7xH0YC1bxxjz Q77xHBBuLNfhV2Gv1bT2A-3D-3D)

We know that everyone should have the freedom to keep themselves and their families safe and to provide for their loved ones, yet memos from Trump’s Department of Homeland Security make it clear that he is making good on his promise to build an even more massive deportation and detention machine to terrorize immigrant women and families.

Across the country, Trump’s ICE agents are already carrying out his agenda. In addition to taking Ms. Gonzalez from the courthouse where she sought safety, ICE agents deported Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos at her routine check-in, and Jeanette Vizguerra, an immigrant rights leader and undocumented mother of four, chose to enter into sanctuary in Denver when faced with the threat of deportation before a routine check-in with ICE.

From El Paso to Denver, we are fighting back against ICE. Click here to join the fight to stand up for the freedom and safety of Ms. Gonzalez — and all undocumented women and families. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.253/I1Ie_bf7Sp2y3WLWDF6Gyg/h1/XAUgr14SMg1orV4eH-2BkndlD5Ya08MYLuvd-2FNiA-2F4Gwc-2FX2EYS-2FLWbWzUbcWSlRPMy8ytAcP7kBV-2BqRsMliTp5gbJpQCT7d57Pr3EExM3hbyYvoA-2F3kxM2GDfDdD-2B7n4dyFv-2BqLIVksOLC17w2iae9Dz5iDOOMwqQ4TN49xMGNq-2B2NP0xzowp7pmT-2F2brv-2BYR0KiADp2IFLG9ks-2FbVpGCQtJfaRP9iLM-2FS5H3RBiwXju4i7kBqs1qd8102KcBBEYl1Xk3EBOLrR-2BjEKfy2R6kruc3ZAqAPIbl0jS8JmiHU34LM83UA3qRZH0E0Xk U1DkTDXNSO3r8nTeQjsuL-2BsUrZqpF6tARqxiGEOAddPjcjyzOq5adTdhNX0idtdIMWSP6N h-2FMONh1h6S2dhJfjMAuig-3D-3D)

Thank you for standing strong with us today.

— Anna, on behalf of the entire We Belong Together team


Estimada Chris,

Estamos bien organizadas. Somos poderosas. No tenemos miedo.

A principios de este mes, agentes de ICE detuvieron a la Sra. González, una mujer transgénero indocumentada y sobreviviente de violencia doméstica en El Paso, TX, en el tribunal donde solicitaba una orden de protección contra su agresor. No permitiremos que los agentes de ICE bajo el Presidente Trump conviertan tribunales y lugares de refugio como iglesias y escuelas en zonas peligrosas.

Haga clic aquí para decirle al Director de ICE, Thomas Homan, que libere a la Sra. González inmediatamente. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.253/I1Ie_bf7Sp2y3WLWDF6Gyg/h2/XAUgr14SMg1orV4eH-2BkndlD5Ya08MYLuvd-2FNiA-2F4Gwc-2FX2EYS-2FLWbWzUbcWSlRPMvrY52HC9GwdQW0XuJR1qHaqUrjSqCEgbUo sPaGxeXNBzXU9fARNn3k6d7kkWdNCGfB7kYxgbqPO1QxJNrVPw lXram9x-2FsXsH5TWjx-2FFWIvPQvCku7EvuqFSAS0orTd7CZDoJuSgWZpSeIYpMuchva3 FkanzVtT5uAYz5-2FZ6ZkjqwF3ZMbFouFc7EadLduWBYilm7BSVCp6eXyrGa3FIw-2F-2BwSUTxPQJHuiLG2J8CdvjU3C-2BqRZ9qgwNAv-2BcNbD5r9-2BWEEjMoBNgevJ1v4nuafLOguzFsw7zJz7f05dRx2YKCp8fv5o yUBHm2H-2Fhd4ombsUY2sx96FuV2HiV7pWbhYoQ-3D-3D)

Sabemos que [email protected] merecemos la libertad de vivir a salvo y cuidar a nuestras familias y seres queridos, sin embargo, los recientes órdenes publicados por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Trump demuestran claramente que él está cumpliendo con su promesa de construir una máquina masiva de deportación y detención para aterrorizar a las mujeres y familias inmigrantes.

En todo el país, los agentes de ICE de Trump ya están implementando su agenda. Además de arrestar a la Sra. González en el tribunal donde buscaba protección, agentes de ICE deportaron a Guadalupe García de Rayos en una cita rutinaria, y Jeanette Vizguerra, una líder comunitaria y madre indocumentada de cuatro [email protected], eligió entrar en santuario en Denver porque amenazaban con deportarla en su propia cita rutinaria con ICE.

Desde El Paso hasta Denver, estamos luchando contra ICE. Haga clic aquí para unirse a la lucha para defender la libertad y la seguridad de la Sra. González — y de todas las mujeres y familias indocumentadas. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1AA/ni0YAA/t.253/I1Ie_bf7Sp2y3WLWDF6Gyg/h3/XAUgr14SMg1orV4eH-2BkndlD5Ya08MYLuvd-2FNiA-2F4Gwc-2FX2EYS-2FLWbWzUbcWSlRPMvrY52HC9GwdQW0XuJR1qHf-2Bj0qm7NqDo6Q45WN0kwDhJQCe-2FZy6utWNu6dFdshZ7LmwBN7HCXgZuU8e0hTibM7kpfXwgRcT6 7P7QZCaZXNwsiylLtIO2YPCzib73c-2B3ODid-2ByAw8bhQm4iEXdEjPovieycayULxkS5BeqYQI6IAFiGpU4MXT TXbRr5QiiNJA9L3im4AwRYGNyTEMxm-2BUqRkMbnGc-2BbILq8i13f9piE8eptmOaZLYHE-2BVFsWY45ga7iI9znXAZe8OIjv3jlIY-2FGIPKxPyj5-2BJ29Mrh7xFNnOD89lG3CHcAaJOlXjoOebDKJIob9FxqAa0NoB txnD2Vw-3D-3D)

Gracias por tomar acción con nosotras el dia de hoy.

— Anna, en nombre de todo el equipo de Nos Mantemos Unidas

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Free Sara, A Young Mother Jailed by Immigration Officials


Dear Chris,

You’ve been hearing about President Trump’s new immigration policies in the U.S. – and today I’m writing to ask for your urgent help on behalf of Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother of two from El Salvador who is fighting for her freedom.

Back in El Salvador, Sara suffered serious physical and psychological domestic violence, including sexual abuse. Sara also received death threats from a gang leader and gang members who are believed to have killed people in the past.

“I knew [the gang leader] would not stop until she killed me.” —Sara Beltran Hernandez
Sara fled this violence and abuse and sought asylum in the U.S. Instead of treating her with compassion and considering her claim, U.S. immigration authorities imprisoned Sara in a detention facility in Texas, where she’s been held for 15 months.

URGENT: Call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement now to demand that Sara be released. (http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=861932&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

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Sara has been in a U.S. jail since she arrived 475 days ago. After she collapsed in jail earlier this month, Sara was transferred to a hospital, where she says a doctor told her she had a brain tumor. For several days, Sara’s lawyer and family were denied access to Sara or information about her condition, including medical records. Sara has now been transferred back to a detention center.

As President Trump’s aggressive immigration orders begin to be implemented, we must do everything we can to ensure protection for people fleeing violence, like Sara. We are working to ensure that people with asylum claims are given a fair hearing and are not treated like criminals while their cases are processed.

Help Sara now: she must be released and given the treatment she needs. (http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=861933&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Thank you for taking action,

Margaret Huang
Executive Director
Amnesty International USA


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VICTORY: Immigrant Youth Help Defeat an Anti-Immigrant Program in Houston


Chris--

My name is Oscar Hernandez, an immigrant youth leader here in Houston, TX. I am writing with some incredible news of a major victory for the immigrant community. Thanks to the tireless organizing led by immigrant youth and our allies, Harris County Sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, announced earlier this week that our county will finally be breaking ties with heavily-criticized and anti-immigrant, program known as 287(g) — a program that promotes racial profiling and deputizes local law-enforcement as immigration agents.

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The immediate tangible impact of this victory is overwhelming. The 287(g) program has resulted in thousands of deportations as well as racially motivated questioning of individuals, traffic stops, and unconstitutional searches and seizures in communities of color. Now, communities of color in Harris County can rest a bit easier knowing that their local sheriff’s department will no longer be participating in this program.

This is not only a win for Harris County but a clear model of what is possible in counties across the country.

So how did we do it? How did immigrants along with Black and LGBTQ allies in the county responsible for more deportations than any other come together to rightfully claiming that they are Here To Stay and get us one big step closer to winning the dignity and justice our community deserves?

Check out the interactive timeline on our medium blog that will take you through the journey and the story of how our movement transformed a city and will continue to transform an entire state and the nation as a whole. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1QA/ni0YAA/t.255/S5HqNwRlR-a6g4-Ru4mRCQ/h3/xU8j-2FjXGdvXQkOEAoNNoVABOWlimZcFPPsBUNQ9tvGDGAzhBIdixK bzeQpj8dSAkv-2BTC-2FVoT80mF38Km5Erivng6N3ZmS671389jWJRgEoFrjwjuN0xGi Eer-2F7xEIm25edW7mz-2FXErhmJ3YOvz-2FRolfmg-2Bz-2Bf9ixtaqLMUx8YbbneyLN8jDXPb-2BhnF7QVqV-2BtFr09jg7BXAPJdaQTToX1swjCIzXz-2BMXMsZ2RNADCzIzzUY25V5DXJ4-2BZzKCUhoD7HpUIgUfI0KNRwiGFRI3Han90WGDm-2F4xb160prcom3gwIuYRVs6wwfyKox-2BywtHjmvisvzoZb2g-2B50v7Av1JZCNa2JHL0xTXKOA2-2BvOYbSs5od3Rd1uQR4JR5-2Ba57pNPCW7kYs5QFyHS1gDa-2BkU5-2BLm4x3Ue6mff2-2FUOhZyh9TyJvpW7YxFl805r2qqCXNPDVXGXSBlHamWEwD-2BEr-2B2PAYhkDAwlCw5xV73Ff5wj5UcNBRMYS8KEqh5194rrOJwSWM 6VYnU5kowYu0txAIY1eJ6h4qvbGtfi3u6flcCmSqt6izmDG23c uwKzhWwZhBOBgKhp4PpAcCpdgPSoXPFi3w-3D-3D)

The termination of the 287(g) contract is a huge victory for all communities in Houston. We do know, however, that to ensure that ALL Houstonians live without fear of racial profiling, mass-incarceration, and deportation we need a city that will take the bold stand of providing sanctuary — a place where everyone under attack by the Trump regime can be safe and thrive. And this is the same case across the country.

If you’re organizing to end collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE, reply back and let us know! We would love to work together!

Together Black, LGBTQ, Muslim, Immigrant and Latinx people will advance this vision and will send a clear message to our public officials, if you make threats or promises to our community, we will hold you accountable.

In Solidarity,

Oscar and the rest of the team at United We Dream

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Absolutely disgusting


Trump's deportation machine is targeting survivors turning to the courts for protection, like Ervin Gonzalez of El Paso.


Can you call the U.S. Immigration and Customs office to demand her release and that they stop targeting survivors?


Call as many numbers as you can:

ICE Director Thomas Homan, (202) 732-3000

ICE Policy Office, (202) 732-4292

ICE Public Affairs, (202) 732-4242

Take Action
Click Here (https://act.weareultraviolet.org/call/el-paso-ice-calls/?t=2&akid=4177.852651.FjS5ju)


Dear Chris,

This administration's cruelty knows no bounds. It's up to us to protect our people, and Ervin Gonzalez--the El Paso domestic abuse survivor taken by immigration officials as a judge was granting her a protective order from her abuser--needs us right now.1

Can you join UltraViolet members in calling the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? (https://act.weareultraviolet.org/call/el-paso-ice-calls/?t=3&akid=4177.852651.FjS5ju)

Trump's deportation force could be acting on tips by domestic abusers, as Gonzalez's attorneys suspect. And last week, Trump's immigration officials ambushed a hypothermia shelter in a church to deport homeless immigrants.2

Trump is expected to unveil another Executive Order on immigration today.3 Right now is the time to show how big the resistance is against his racist immigration policies. If thousands of us flood ICE with calls, immigration officials will be pressured to not only release Gonzalez but also stop targeting survivors of violence for deportation.

Call as many numbers as you can:

ICE Director Thomas Homan, (202) 732-3000

ICE Policy Office, (202) 732-4292

ICE Public Affairs, (202) 732-4242

After you call, can you tell us how it went? (https://act.weareultraviolet.org/call/el-paso-ice-calls/?t=4&akid=4177.852651.FjS5ju)

It's always best to speak in your own words, but here are some points to guide you:


- Hi my name is ____. This call is to ask why ICE detained a domestic abuse survivor in El Paso while she was inside a protective-order court. Is ICE now acting on tips from domestic abusers?

- Release Ervin Gonzalez. Undocumented survivors already avoid reporting their abusers for fear of deportation or being separated from their children.

- The fact that ICE ambushed a woman while she was seeking help in a protective court is disgusting. This administration is siding with domestic abusers over women. Release Ervin Gonzalez immediately!

- ICE is violating the Violence Against Women Act! Gonzalez and immigrant survivors are supposed to be protected from detention and deportation.


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Sources:

1. ICE detains alleged domestic violence victim, El Paso Times, February 15, 2017

2. ICE agents arrest 6 people seeking shelter from the cold at a church, Think Progress, February 16, 2017

3. New Trump travel ban order nearing completion, CNN, February 21, 2017


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REMINDER: Registration Deadline for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemeni Nationals Approaching


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REMINDER: Registration Deadline for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemeni Nationals Approaching


The Re-Registration Period for Yemeni nationals who already have TPS Is March 6, 2017.

The Registration Period for Yemeni nationals who are applying for TPS for the first time is July 3, 2017.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a petition to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, requesting him to extend TPS protection for Yemeni nationals and reopen the registration period. Secretary Johnson extended the re-designation of the Republic of Yemen for TPS for 18 months, from March 4, 2017, through September 3, 2018.

The extension allows Yemeni nationals who are currently TPS beneficiaries to retain their status by re-registering during the 60 day period. The redesignation also allows additional Yemeni nationals to register for TPS for the first time and apply for Employment Authorization Documents that allow them to work.

The ADC Legal Department provides assistance with all immigration related matters, including assistance with TPS and asylum claims. Please note that an application for TPS does not affect an application for asylum or any other immigration benefit and vice versa. For questions about TPS, contact ADC Legal at 202-244-2990, or send an email to [email protected]

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Signatures needed: Block Trump’s war on immigrants in Illinois


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“Protect immigrants in our state. Do everything in your power to resist any executive mandate or policy that divides and targets people based on their race and country of origin.”

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Dear Chris,

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has built the blueprint for Trump’s mass deportations. Gov. Rauner must do everything in his power to disrupt their plans.

DHS just released memos that turn Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders into policy. The memos empower federal immigration officers to target almost every undocumented immigrant for detention and immediate deportation, expand Trump’s deportation army by 10,000 agents and encourage local law enforcement to collaborate with federal immigration officers.1

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is already terrorizing immigrant communities.2 With these new policies, DHS is unleashing and emboldening a dangerous, unaccountable deportation force. States have the power to slow them down. Speak out now to demand that Gov. Rauner take bold action.

Tell Gov. Rauner: Protect immigrants in Illinois. Refuse to comply with DHS’ racist anti-immigrant policies. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/governors_immigrants?t=4&akid=21931.247355.8fzYbq)

ICE is a terrifying rogue agency. For much of the last eight years, ICE agents flouted Obama administration enforcement priorities. Now the Trump administration is giving ICE sweeping permission to harass and attack all undocumented immigrants at will.

In recent days, ICE agents have arrested and detained:

a Chicago father whose criminal record only includes traffic violations;3
a woman at a Texas hospital undergoing treatment for a brain tumor;4
men leaving a church’s overnight hypothermia shelter in Alexandria, Virginia;5 and
a transgender woman who was obtaining a restraining order against a violent partner at an El Paso, Texas courthouse.6
Even though the DHS memos protect the legal status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, ICE arrested and detained DACA recipient Daniel Ramirez Medina in Seattle.7 This is not normal. This is not okay.

Tell Gov. Rauner: Protect immigrants in Illinois. Refuse to comply with DHS’ racist anti-immigrant policies. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/governors_immigrants?t=5&akid=21931.247355.8fzYbq)

Fortunately, some state leaders are already standing up to protect immigrants. For example, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee have barred state agencies from cooperating with and aiding federal immigration enforcement.8 California state lawmakers are pushing an omnibus immigration bill through the legislature that would ban state resources from being used to enforce federal immigration laws.

Gov. Rauner has a choice: Enable Trump’s agenda of criminalization and deportations, or resist and obstruct Trump’s racist regime at every turn. Help make sure Gov. Rauner does the right thing. Add your name now.

Tell Gov. Rauner: Protect immigrants in Illinois. Refuse to comply with DHS’ racist anti-immigrant policies. Click the link below to sign the petition.
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References:

Tal Kopan, “Trump admin set stage for mass deportations,” CNN, Feb. 22, 2017.
Vivian Yee, “Immigrants Hide, Fearing Capture on ‘Any Corner,’” The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2017.
Arelis R. Hernandez, Wesley Lowery and Abigail Hauslohner, “Federal immigration raids net many without criminal records, sowing fear,” The Washington Post, Feb. 16, 2017.
Chris Sommerfeldt, “Fed seize undocumented woman with brain tumor at hospital,” New York Daily News, Feb. 214, 2017.
The Associated Press, “ICE agents arrest men leaving Alexandria church shelter,” Washington’s Top News, Feb. 17, 2017.
Jonathan Blitzer, “The woman arrested by ICE in a courthouse speaks out,” The New Yorker, Feb. 23, 2017.
Sydney Brownstone, “Detained Dreamer’s Lawyers Say Government Doctored Document to Justify False Gang Affiliation,” The Stranger, Feb. 16, 2017.
Reid Wilson, “Wash. governor order agencies to ignore immigration requests,” The Hill, Feb. 23, 2017.

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Students want ban on Trump administration visiting campus

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Jacksonville, FL - The University of North Florida (UNF) chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) rallied, marched, and staged a sit in, Feb. 28, to present several demands to the school administration. These demands included turning the campus into a sanctuary campus, banning Trump’s administration from visiting UNF, and pushing for more Black, Latino and other oppressed nationality teachers and students on campus. There was also a call for a $15 living wage for all workers on campus. Over 40 students participated in the event, titled “SDS Strikes Back” in reference to last semester’s huge Black Lives Matter rally that launched SDS and pulled a core of student activists together.

The students began by rallying. Several speakers told the crowd about the importance of fighting for a more just society in which everybody was treated fairly, a fight that SDS has started on campus. There were a few conservative students that tried to disrupt the rally, but they were unable to do so and the protesters mostly ignored them and prevented them from speaking.

The students then rallied behind the banner and chanted “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!” and “When immigrant lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” The militant march showed that students are willing to stand up and fight for those that are hit the hardest by the Trump administration, and fight against attacks on immigrants, the Black community, queer people and students.

Students marched to the university president's office to deliver the list of demands, emphasizing the call for a sanctuary campus, and demand a meeting from the president of the university. SDS sat near the president’s office and held a sit-in long enough to see both the university president and the former mayor of Jacksonville carefully step through the crowd of students on their way to the back rooms. SDS promised to return and elevate their campaign if the administration failed to respond correctly.

Summing up the event, Monique Williamson, president of UNF SDS, had this to say: “We held a rally to show UNF that we will stand against hate in any form. All of our groups will not stop fighting until we’ve won our demands. Brown and Black unity forever.”

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#HereToStay Alert: 22 year-old detained after speaking out!


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ICE agents detained 22-year-old Dany Vargas just hours after she courageously spoke about her fear of deportation at a press conference in Mississippi. She was afraid because two weeks ago, ICE officers raided her home and detained both her brother and father while she hid terrified in her closet for four hours.

DACA (Deferred action for childhood arrivals) is a program that provides young undocumented immigrants a work permit and protects them from deportation. Trump said multiple times that people like Dany had nothing to fear and Speaker Paul Ryan looked DACA beneficiary Angelica Villalobos in the eye and said the same.

Dany, who is DACA beneficiary, should have been safe, but immigration agents stopped the car she was in and said, "You know who we are, you know what we're here for.”

Dany must be given her freedom, now. Sign the petition to #FreeDany (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/_wA/ni0YAA/t.25a/yHx3CytQQ9-NFXbiMjJmNw/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3DZ4YUJxEHwJ47lkhWo3dp8-2Bk-2BU6TtNwq-2Bm2m-2B-2FudmdP-2FvJXpOpKZ3ViuqYJt1UB0MBGQhERLM4SM5z9-2FnTp2EWHiUaXhGmrCDr18Y-2FBHy3Cq-2FoyhinpnUdCP4FgHG2clxsnsRQU6-2F3vfpey-2B3y9qjdWIEwp-2BabwpMoum5GCc8QlAJDln7Vyf88DDPxonkxASkWC5O4yJJemE A60VuSL8n362PM-2BZli4D-2FMVvoVK23unyLUr5KzwEAzNrdGf-2BfPctkXPwGiLOOfSBvuGDOCHX2yWakbo3pBCT0kj4noxanWus R2DPdR6lGSUvktcNE814AqdBXPWqxTPaiBQrqtA39DzmITSGiT 2c4rMEElm1Y4Hg-3D-3D).

If we get enough people to show support for Dany by signing this petition, we can apply the necessary pressure on Secretary Kelly, the head of DHS, who has the power to release her and protect the DACA program once and for all!

Dany came to the U.S. when she was 7 years old and was a beneficiary of the DACA program. She is a manager at a small store and dreams of becoming a math teacher.

Like many beneficiaries of the DACA program, paying the nearly $500 in fees every two years was hard, and her DACA status expired. However, she saved up, got the money together and her renewal application is now in the approval process. But because of this technicality, ICE tracked her down and put her into the deportation pipeline.

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Victory! Sara Beltran Hernandez Released


Dear Chris,

Moments ago, Sara Beltran Hernandez was released.

Sara is a 26-year-old mother of two who fled to the U.S. to escape gang and domestic violence. But despite having a claim to asylum, she was locked up for 15 months. ICE officials refused to release Sara on parole even after she collapsed in her cell as a result of a brain tumor.

But Amnesty members like you spoke up. And when you raised your voice, you shut down three ICE phone lines.

It is victorious moments like this that sustain us. But our fight has only begun.

Imagine escaping unspeakable violence in your hometown—only to be automatically treated like a criminal in the place you sought refuge. Imagine being taken to and from a medical appointment in shackles and handcuffs—even while suffering from a tumor that has bled into your brain.

This happened to Sara, but her case will not be unique.

In the face of President Trump’s aggressive immigration orders, we must fight to ensure that people with asylum claims are given a fair hearing and humane treatment. Detention should be used as a last resort.

Take action now to tell the Trump Administration that people like Sara, who are risking everything to escape horrific violence, should not be treated like criminals while their cases are processed.

We will do everything we can to ensure protection for people who are fleeing violence. But we will need your help.

Thank you for taking action today.

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ADC Files FOIA Request Regarding Global Entry Revocations



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ADC Files FOIA Request Regarding Global Entry Revocations

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ADC received reports that immediately following the presidential election in November persons who were granted access to the Global Entry program had the privilege revoked by CBP. Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the United States.

The FOIA request included a specific request for any and all records maintained by the agency relating to revocations, suspensions, terminations, as well as the numbers, confirmations, and policy practices of such decisions.

If you have had your Global Entry privilege revoked, please contact ADC immediately by emailing the ADC Legal Department to [email protected] ([email protected]). In the email please include the date your Global Entry privilege was denied. Also, please include your contact information. You can also call our office at 202-244-2990. You can also email ADC Legal Department at [email protected] for additional information.


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Young woman targeted for opposing immigration policy as Trump steps up campaign of intimidation

By Patrick Martin

9 March 2017

Press reports from around the United States document the stepped-up efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), acting on the basis of the executive orders issued by President Trump, to deport longtime residents of the United States. In many cases, individuals have been targeted for no other purpose than to intimidate the immigrant community.

Attorneys for Daniela Vargas, a young immigrant brought to the United States from Argentina when she was seven years old, have filed a petition in federal court charging that US immigration officers violated her First Amendment right to freedom of speech, targeting her for arrest after she spoke at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi against the arrest of her father and brother.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center joined with Vargas’s immigration attorneys to seek a writ of habeas corpus Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, the location of the ICE detention center where Vargas is being held.

“She was targeted for speaking out against the ICE enforcement actions in the Jackson area and for going public with her story,” Michelle Lapointe, a senior staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, told the media. “We want to send a message to ICE that they cannot behave in this manner that targets people for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.”

Vargas, 22, is one of several young immigrants seized by ICE who had been accepted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the temporary protection against deportation offered under an Obama administration executive order which new president Donald Trump has not rescinded.

At the news conference March 1, Vargas said, “Today my father and brother await deportation while I continue to fight this battle as a ‘Dreamer’ to help contribute to this country which I feel is very much my country.” Minutes later, she was stopped by ICE agents and arrested.

The habeas corpus petition filed Monday night argues, “The arrest, detention, and imminent deportation that Ms. Vargas currently faces have injured her and continue to injure her, and would chill any person of ordinary firmness from continuing to speak out on issues related to immigration enforcement and policy.”

There have been conflicting statements from federal officials over whether Vargas will have her case heard by an immigration judge, or simply deported to Argentina without a court hearing.

In a similar case in Seattle, Washington, another young immigrant enrolled in the DACA program, Daniel Ramirez Medina, has charged that US immigration officials and local police falsified a statement that he made and signed after he was arrested along with his immigrant father on February 5.

Ramirez, a 23-year-old who was brought to the US at age 7 by his parents, was the first DACA enrollee to be arrested and processed for deportation under the Trump administration. ICE officials claimed that Ramirez had admitted to gang affiliation and that this superseded his DACA status.

Attorneys for Ramirez have submitted evidence that his statement allegedly admitting gang affiliation was doctored. A full sentence written by Ramirez reads: “I came in and the officers said I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear a orange uniform.” A large eraser smudge mark deleted the first seven words, turning the allegation by a policeman into a confession by the prisoner that “I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear a orange uniform.”

A Justice Department official has now admitted that “it is clear that Petitioner is denying, rather than admitting, to gang affiliation,” but the government is nonetheless claiming that Ramirez has such ties and these vitiate his DACA status.

Another outrageous immigration case involves a US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, suffering serious brain injuries during his second deployment, and who now faces deportation to Mexico because of a drug conviction in 2010. Miguel Perez was born in Mexico but grew up in Chicago, and was a legal permanent resident when he enlisted in the Army in 2001, believing this would give him automatic citizenship.

He returned from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, which his family says was not properly treated, and he turned to alcohol and drugs. He was eventually arrested for offering to sell cocaine to an undercover cop. His attorneys are now claiming asylum, saying he fears for his life if deported to Mexico, which he left as a child.

According to an immigrant rights group, Perez is one of thousands of green-card veterans who now face deportation under the new, stricter enforcement order issued by President Trump on January 25.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Khoudiedia Nianghane, a West African native who has lived in the US for 20 years and has three US citizen children, was deported late Saturday night to Senegal, after spending more than 18 months in detention. One daughter is a college student, while her other son and daughter, aged 17 and 13 respectively, are in school on Cincinnati’s west side.

Nianghane, who doesn’t speak English, missed a court date regarding her immigration status, giving ICE an opportunity to select her for deportation. Her attorney, Douglas Wiegle, told Cincinnati media that he could find no reason why ICE had prioritized her for deportation, since she has no criminal record of any kind, living quietly and raising her children.

Press reports suggest that ICE has been instructed to target Africans as part of the Trump crackdown. According to ThinkProgress, 130 people were deported to Senegal on the night of Saturday, March 4 to Sunday, March 5. Nianghane was one of them. This compares to 21 deportations to Senegal in all of 2016, and 22 in all of 2015.

In Houston, Texas, Armando Garcia Mendez, a 41-year-old taco vendor who has lived in the United States for 23 years, was arrested February 8 by four armed ICE agents on a deportation order that dates back to when he first came to this country in 1994, fleeing the civil war in his native Guatemala.

Shortly before dawn four weeks ago, Garcia was preparing one of his trucks for the breakfast crowd. Four agents in ballistic vests emblazoned with “ICE Police” rushed out of an unmarked vehicle, handcuffed him, and took him away. He remains in detention. The Houston ICE office declared, in response to press inquiries about the case, that it was “focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that targets criminal aliens who present the greatest risk to the security of our communities.”

How this applies to a man who came to the US at age 18, seeking to escape being drafted in the military force of a brutal dictatorship, and who has a wife and children, and is well known in the community as a hardworking small businessman, was not explained.

These cases, and thousands like them, are the human face of the crackdown ordered by the Trump administration. In many instances, the ground had already been prepared under the Obama administration: people identified, even detained, awaiting only the White House order to set the machinery of expulsion to work.

Meanwhile, the new head of Trump’s deportation machine, Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly, a retired general, told CNN Monday that he was actively considering a program to separate immigrant children and their parents when they are arrested together in the border area.

He confirmed a recent Reuters report, said that he is “considering exactly that” as a way to deter Central American refugees from making the long trek north across Mexico to the Rio Grande.

Kelly was asked by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, “If you get some young kids who manage to sneak into the United States with their parents, are Department of Homeland Security personnel going to separate the children from their moms and dads?”

Kelly’s response was so emphatic and blunt that it took even Blitzer, a diehard defender of the American capitalist state, by surprise. “We have tremendous experience in dealing with unaccompanied minors,” he said. “We turn them over to HHS, and they do a very, very good job...” He continued: “Yes, I am considering, in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network, I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents.”

In the three months ending January 31, 2017, some 54,000 children and parents were seized by ICE and Border Patrol agents, double the number arrested in the same period a year earlier.

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We spoke at Disney's shareholder meeting. Here's what happened.


Chris,

I’m writing with a simple message: Thank you for speaking out. Your voice matters.

I was proud to join local leaders at Colorado People’s Alliance, a member organization of People’s Action, this week to attend Disney’s annual shareholders meeting. We delivered more than 511,000 petition signatures from People’s Action members and our allies calling on Disney CEO Bob Iger to quit Trump’s business council.

I spoke to Bob Iger personally in front of hundreds of people. I told him that I am immigrant from Iran. I told him that I moved here as a child and that Disney movies shaped my sense of this country and its values. And I told him how the Muslim ban affects my community and how Trump’s agenda of hatred runs counter Disney’s stated values of “equality, inclusion and fairness.”

I also spoke to members of Disney’s board, which includes corporate executives from Facebook, Twitter, Potbelly, and other big corporations.

My exchange with Bob Iger was reported on by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, and other major news outlets. (You can see a few news clips below along with photos of the event.)

More important still, People’s Action and our allies defined the story around The Walt Disney Company’s biggest event of the year. We sent a clear message: corporations can stand with our families or they can stand with an administration that is bound and determined to attack us at every turn. They can’t do both.

Mr. Iger and his board heard our message loud and clear, yet he refused to step down from Trump’s Economic Council. For now. So we will continue to resist, we will continue to boycott, we will continue to confront anyone who is complicit in Trump’s agenda.

Thank you for speaking truth to power.

Mehrdad Azemun
People’s Action

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New York Times, “Disney Chief: My Role on a Trump Panel Is ‘Not an Endorsement,’” March 8, 2017:

“The question is about endorsement,” said Mehrdad Azemun, from Chicago, echoing two others who had spoken. “By staying on the economic council it looks like you are tacitly endorsing Trump’s policies,” added Mr. Azemun, who identified himself as Iranian-American.

Los Angeles Times, “Disney’s annual meeting in Denver takes a political turn,” March 8, 2017:

During the meeting, Mehrdad Azemun of Chicago had taken to the microphone to tell Iger that as an immigrant from Iran who “grew up in the U.S. being raised on Disney,” he felt that the CEO’s participation on the council ran counter to the company’s values.

“As an Iranian-American, I am angry about Trump’s Muslim ban … it directly affects my extended family,” said Azemun, a shareholder proxy who is a community organizer with People’s Action, a group that advocates for economic equality.

Bloomberg, “Iger Defends His Position on Trump’s Advisory Council,” March 8, 2017:

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger said he plans to stay on a presidential advisory panel after activists at the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday asked him to step down from the position. A representative of the Colorado People’s Alliance told Iger, 66, that his presence on the panel made it seem like he was endorsing President Donald Trump’s agenda...The questions were the most politically charged at a Disney annual meeting in recent memory.



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Chris--

With grassroots support from our Here To Stay Network, we helped free Dany. Now we have a chance to help Daniel, a young immigrant father in Seattle, who's been unjustly detained for over a month.

Tomorrow a judge will announce whether or not Daniel will be released. That's why we're making one final push to demand his release.

Add your name to this petition to #FreeDaniel before we deliver it to the judge tomorrow morning. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1wA/ni0YAA/t.25m/J4q7NSkdS4ud28GedqPAYw/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3Af-2FqBrTm0SuD4glFEqNEzLcm-2Bvq6wHBB2HA5XsXVBUHv1sLdmumHCwzTIQB29nv1AiDHP4s6B DRX0s09PLjpm0MQQQcStPwQFuLoEpqcXSSV0-2BLPdun0u3MtYhs8D-2BOfzUblM9Mj88RtUST6LEapApCu2a4Tc9v6rP1pz2z-2Bxqwg-2FaWNSGwWRRTpFszcX7U76SCJJXd-2FCFHrnk4JnF-2Fa8qHz5MbL0wHhfwXfvZ45WlcMXyQBpUKFV2Xe9-2BAuuxPeagxj129ZVrz6gUipu22Xjye5CMlmIy2-2FoBpj-2FMAfvpnC0NdRluYGcpVodIxXfB-2FMf3ufPAHSZKNubTTC0ExINU5BK3jSV9OW78KzoeZFTEWhuPd o2pMcsdUvUwpP-2FtVniQGJq7GofAgLBSI5B-2F8yxi)

Daniel has DACA, a program that provides young undocumented immigrants a work permit and protects them from deportation. Daniel and other DACA recipients should not be at risk for deportation. But in Trump's America, no one is safe.

Daniel is only one of hundreds of immigrants who have been invaded by ICE at their homes and workplaces and could be deported, regardless of their status.

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Celebrating Our Wins // Celebrando Nuestras Victorias


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Dear Chris,

We believe that amid the fear and chaos that grips our community under the Trump regime, it is more important than ever to celebrate our wins and share stories of the triumph of organizing, social justice lawyering, and people power over the forces of abuse, exploitation, and discrimination. In that spirit, today we will be gathering for our monthly Workers’ Assembly to celebrate two of our recent victories: Adelante member Javier Martinez has been released from ICE detention, and Javier and his coworkers Gabriel and Rafael Diaz recently reached a partial settlement of $18,000 in their wage theft case!!

Here’s the back story: Javier, Gabriel and Rafael came to Adelante in early 2016 seeking support in recovering several thousand dollars in unpaid wages for roofing work. With Adelante’s support, they repeatedly contacted their former boss Antonio Mondragón, staged protests outside of his home, and finally took him to court when he still refused to pay. At first Mondragón claimed he didn’t even know the workers, and during one of the protests at his home, he even called the sheriff’s office on us, but when the deputies arrived, they respected our First Amendment rights to assembly and free speech and allowed us to continue. In June the workers filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Birmingham against Mondragón, his company AM Pro, and major building contractor Builders FirstSource, and held a rally (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GcBI44wWsMGpicO8ENcw7EoR2nNbbk2p) and press conference on the courthouse steps. In October, Mondragón came to Adelante’s office to discuss the lawsuit with the workers, but ended up threatening to harm the workers or report them to ICE and the police. Exactly one week later, ICE agents came to Javier’s worksite and arrested him. We launched a public campaign calling on ICE (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=M34tGXiy6aKPN0ebCQuTYEoR2nNbbk2p) to free Javier and stop his deportation, and we stepped in to represent him in his deportation case. Gabriel and Rafael shared a powerful video (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4G3%2FsaO33BzxCR2go8g%2BN0oR2nNbbk2p) calling for thier coworker's release. We were able to get Javier’s deportation case reopened, and after the immigration judge granted him a high bond, Javier’s friends and Adelante members mobilized to help fundraise (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UsPOOdtld%2FrP66u%2FJCM8o98jCQRe4%2BuX) to pay the bond. A few weeks ago, Javier was finally released from detention! Additionally, back in January, we reached a partial settlement with the defendants in the wage theft lawsuit for $18,000, including $13,000 for the workers and $5,000 in attorney fees and costs that will go to support Adelante’s future legal work. Javier’s wage claims against Mondragon are still pending, and he has added a claim for illegal retaliation, which is prohibited by federal labor law.

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If you’re in the Birmingham area, please join us for the Assembly! Tuesday, March 14, 6-8PM at Adelante, 2104 Chapel Hill Rd, Birmingham, AL 35216 (view (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HIPso%2BMJCeLr%2FxcV9Ncn9d8jCQRe4%2BuX) the event on Facebook).

Thanks to all of you who signed the petition for Javier’s release and donated to his bond fund, and who have supported Adelante’s work to combat wage theft, workplace abuse and retaliation, and deportations.

With love and solidarity,

Jessica

Director, Adelante Alabama Worker Center

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Querida/o Chris,

Creemos que en medio del temor y caos que apodera a nuestra comunidad bajo el régimen de Trump, es más importante que nunca celebrar nuestras victorias y compartir historias del triunfo de la organización, la abogacía basada en justicia social y el poder del pueblo sobre las fuerzas del abuso, la explotación y la discriminación. Hoy en nuestra Asamblea mensual estaremos reuniéndonos para celebrar dos de nuestras victorias recientes: Javier Martínez, miembro de Adelante, ha salido de detención, y Javier y sus compañeros de trabajo Gabriel y Rafael Díaz llegaron a un acuerdo legal parcial de $ 18.000 en su caso de robo de salario!!

Les contamos un poco mas de la historia: Javier, Gabriel y Rafael llegaron a Adelante a principios de 2016 buscando apoyo para recuperar miles de dólares en salarios robados por trabajos de roofing (techado) que hicieron. Con el apoyo de Adelante, se pusieron en contacto repetidamente con su ex-patrón Antonio Mondaron, organizaron protestas fuera de su casa y finalmente lo llevaron a la corte cuando aún se negaba a pagar. Al principio Mondragón reclamaba que ni siquiera conocía a los trabajadores, y durante una de las protestas en su casa, incluso nos echó a la policía, pero cuando los sheriffs llegaron, respetaron nuestros derechos de a la asamblea y la libertad de expresión bajo la Primera Enmienda y nos permitieron continuar. En junio los trabajadores presentaron una demanda en la corte federal de Birmingham contra Mondragón, su compañía AM Pro, y al constructor general Builders FirstSource, y hicimos un rally (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=msCr7530HHh%2FQaiYKdbald8jCQRe4%2BuX) y rueda de prensa fuera de la corte. En octubre, Mondragón vino a la oficina de Adelante para hablar con los trabajadores sobre la demanda, pero terminó amenazándoles a los trabajadores con dañarlos o reportarlos a ICE o la policía. Exactamente una semana después, agentes de ICE llegaron al lugar de trabajo de Javier y lo arrestaron. Lanzamos una campaña pública pidiendo a ICE (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ewtz8mxk3EJWmtD%2BcSfmv98jCQRe4%2BuX) que liberara a Javier y detuviera su deportación, y decidimos representarlo en su caso de deportación. Gabriel y rafael compartieron un video poderoso (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0LazjqE28D4eZRIMWxahTN8jCQRe4%2BuX) demandando la liberación de su compañero de trabajo. Logramos reabrir su caso de deportación, y después de que el juez de inmigración le otorgó una fianza alta, los amigos de Javier y miembros de Adelante se movilizaron para ayudar a recaudar fondos (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TgmCSFnBrGhZygqZVpXy%2BN8jCQRe4%2BuX) para pagar la fianza. Hace unas semanas, Javier fue finalmente liberado de la detención! Además, en enero, llegamos a un acuerdo legal parcial de $18.000 con los empleadores ​​en la demanda de robo de salario, incluyendo $13.000 para los trabajadores y $ 5.000 en honorarios de abogados y costos que irán para apoyar el futuro trabajo legal de Adelante. El reclamo de robo de salario de Javier contra Mondragón aún está pendiente y añadimos un reclamo por represalias ilegales, que están prohibidas por la ley laboral federal.

Si te encuentras en el área de Birmingham, por favor únete a nosotros para la Asamblea! Martes 14 de marzo, 6:00 a 8:00 PM en Adelante, 2104 Chapel Hill Rd, Birmingham, AL 35216 (ver (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NazmwgCKOMO00nHIeDwQit8jCQRe4%2BuX) el evento en Facebook),

Gracias a todxs ustedes que firmaron la petición para liberar a Javier y donaron a su fondo de fianza, y que han apoyado el trabajo de Adelante para combatir el robo de salario, abusos y represalias laborales, y las deportaciones.

Seguimos Adelante!

Con amor y solidaridad,

Jessica

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Federal judge halts new Trump travel ban

By Patrick Martin

16 March 2017

A federal district court judge in Hawaii issued an order Wednesday evening freezing the new Trump travel ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries. The order was handed down by Judge Derrick K. Watson, halting the enforcement of the order only hours before it was to go into effect, at midnight Eastern Time.

The Trump executive order would have suspended the US refugee program for 120 days, while halting for 90 days the issuance of new visas to visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. All six countries are predominately Muslim, and four of the six are ravaged by US-instigated civil wars that have destroyed their infrastructure and sent millions into flight, either as internally displaced persons or as refugees. The other two, Iran and Sudan, have been the targets of US blockades and military provocations.

Two other federal judges were also hearing suits against the executive order, in Maryland and Washington state, and further injunctions against Trump’s Muslim ban could be handed down before the night is out.

It was the second time that a Trump executive order temporarily banning visitors from majority-Muslim countries and refugees from any country was struck down by the courts. The first executive order, issued January 27, was thrown out as unconstitutional and illegal by district courts in Washington state and Virginia. The Washington state ruling was then upheld by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers much of the western United States.

The hearing in Hawaii came after a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general, Douglas Chin, who argued the new travel ban, like the previous version, targeted Muslims in violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects freedom of religion, and caused damage to state universities and to the state’s tourism industry, both of them dependent on the free flow of travelers.

As in the lawsuits against the first Trump executive order, state attorneys general from 14 states filed briefs in support of Hawaii, while more than 50 technology companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Lyft and many other Silicon Valley firms joined in a brief opposing the travel ban.

The Hawaii state brief cited the case of Ismail Elshikh, imam of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, whose mother-in-law has applied for an immigrant visa that is still being processed, and could fall afoul of the travel ban.

Judge Watson ruled that both the state of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh had “a strong likelihood of success on their claim” that the executive order intentionally targets Muslims and therefore violates the Constitution’s guarantee against establishment of religion.

The judge cited candidate Trump’s statements during the election campaign, referred to in the state brief, as “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the Executive Order and its related predecessor.”

He also flatly rejected the Trump administration’s claim that because the executive order was limited to six Muslim-majority countries, out of dozens, no religious bias could be inferred. “The illogic of the Government’s contentions is palpable,” Watson wrote in his 43-page decision. “The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally flawed. The Court declines to relegate its Establishment Clause analysis to a purely mathematical exercise.”

Justice Department lawyers made arguments along the same lines as those rejected by the courts last month, claiming the president had wide authority to ban visitors and refugees on the basis of his status as commander-in-chief. Given the modifications in the executive order, which applies only to future visa seekers, not those who already have visas, they also claimed that there could be no showing of “irreparable harm,” meaning that neither the states nor individuals had standing to challenge the order in court.

Acting US Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued the government case in both the Maryland courtroom of US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, and by telephone in the Hawaii courtroom.

No citizen of any of the six countries has engaged in a terrorist attack on Americans, either overseas or in the United States. Despite the claims by the White House that the ban is based on national security considerations and targets terrorist dangers, the countries from which actual terrorists have emerged, such as Saudi Arabia (15 of the 19 airplane hijackers on 9/11), are not on the Trump list.

Lawyers for the International Refugee Assistance Project, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center and HIAS, a Jewish charity that facilitates refugee resettlement, argued against the Muslim ban in the Maryland courtroom. The Maryland case was the only one that directly challenged Trump’s order to slash total refugee intake this year from 110,000 to 50,000, arguing that this exceeded his legal authority.

The Maryland case also heard arguments about whether the judge should take into account Trump’s campaign statements about banning Muslims. “It’s asking the court to turn a blind eye to all of the evidence that’s apparent to everybody,” argued Omar Jadwat for the ACLU. “It doesn’t make sense to blind the court.”

The ACLU lawyer also rebutted government claims that the executive order was merely temporary, pointing out the provisions for extending the travel ban indefinitely based on the recommendations of the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

In each courtroom, Justice Department lawyers claimed Trump’s second order was “substantially different” from the first, and therefore the challenge to it should be considered as a new case, without the previous court decisions setting a precedent. Those opposing the ban cited statements by top White House aide Stephen Miller, who said that the second order would reproduce the first with only minor, cosmetic differences. Some “very technical issues” would be fixed, he said, but “those basic policies are still going to be in effect.”

In Seattle, Washington, Judge James Robart, who issued an earlier ruling striking down the first Trump executive order, turned down a motion by six state attorneys general asking him to declare that his initial ruling also covered the latest version of the executive order. However, he left open the possibility that he would issue a new ruling on the second executive order.

None of these court injunctions affects in any way the vicious attacks on immigrants unleashed by other Trump executive orders, which instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol to greatly intensify their arrests, detentions and deportations of undocumented workers. The Philadelphia ICA field office, for example, announced Monday it had seized another 248 immigrants in a four-state sweep, mainly in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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Sign: Detained immigrants are not private prisons' slaves!


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Chris,

Every day, guards at the Denver Contract Detention Facility randomly pick six immigrant detainees and force them to work for $1 a day or nothing at all. If they refuse to work, the guards throw them into solitary confinement.

The Denver Contract Detention Facility is operated by GEO Group, a huge private prison company under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One would think that violating federal anti-slavery laws by making a profit off of forced labor would automatically get the company fired, but that is not the case. ICE is still sending immigrants to the facility, despite their egregious human rights violations.

Please sign Julie's Care2 petition demanding that ICE immediately cancel its contract with the Denver Contract Detention Facility. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Axpbp/zSoD/t8hl)

Tens of thousands of the facility's current and former immigrant detainees have filed a class action lawsuit against GEO Group. They claim that the company "unjustly enriched" itself through the forced labor of detained immigrants like themselves.

We cannot allow our government to turn a blind eye to the blatant violation of tens of thousands of people's rights. We cannot allow our country's immigrants to be turned into modern-day slaves. We cannot allow a private prison to get away with breaking federal law.

Stand up for some of our country's most vulnerable people. Sign Julie's petition to demand that ICE break ties with the Denver Contract Detention Facility. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Axpbp/zSoD/t8hl) If they are allowed to get away with violating immigrants' rights, then other facilities may feel free to do the same. And we cannot let that happen.

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Trump’s “Crime Victims' Rights Week” targets immigrants (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=1b912c0d3b&e=d323598fe4)

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Washington DC – President Trump proclaimed April 2 through April 8, to be “National Crime Victims' Rights Week,” singling out undocumented immigrants for bigoted attacks.

The proclamation reads in part, “My Administration is developing an office to assist victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens. The Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE), within the Department of Homeland Security, will work to serve the victims of open borders policies ‑which will no longer form the basis of our immigration system. These victims will not be ignored by the media or silenced by special interests any longer.”

Trump made racist attacks on immigrants a centerpiece of his campaign, identifying Mexicans as “rapists.” Since taking office he has ramped up deportations and is making plans for a wall to further militarize the border with Mexico.

Considering Trump’s attacks, many in the immigrant rights movement are making plans to attend the May Day demonstrations that are being organized across the U.S.

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Chris,

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Over the past few months, there has been a dramatic increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. The widespread “crackdown” on undocumented immigrant—regardless of their criminal status—has provoked a wave of fear through immigrant communities and households, and has affected victimized immigrant women most directly.

Since Trump’s executive order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement—signed in late January—an increasing number of immigrant women are choosing not to prosecute violent crimes committed against them out of fear of being detained and deported. Many victimized women fear that they will be arrested, detained and ultimately deported if they step foot in a courthouse.

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Civil rights lawyers and immigrant defense attorneys in Denver, for example, have reported a dramatic decrease in legal complaints filed by immigrant women who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault and violent attacks. Experts attribute this decline largely to the release of a video depicting numerous ICE officers stationed at the Denver courthouse waiting to make arrests. In February, Ms. Gonzalez, an immigrant transwoman from Texas, was arrested and detained as she was attempting to obtain a protective order against her abuser at the El Paso Courthouse.

Many immigrant women are terrified and in hiding. Many are afraid to drive, look for a job, go to a bar, or travel anywhere that may require them to display their license or identification card. Others are in serious physical danger, yet are afraid to seek legal assistance or health care out of fear of being outed and detained. Pregnant immigrant women are giving birth at home in order to forgo reporting their names at hospitals and putting themselves at risk of deportation.

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The courthouse targeting of victimized immigrant women not only threatens the everyday lives of the women affected, but it also puts an enormous amount of power and control in the hands of abusers. According to some immigrant women, it is common for domestic abusers to use immigration status to trap their undocumented partners in abusive relationships.

We must not tolerate the targeting of immigrants by the Trump administration and ICE—targeting that subjects them to violence. Victims of crimes should have no fear of seeking justice in our court systems. The implementation of an anonymity clause for civilians who report crimes would increase the likelihood of immigrant victims or witnesses reporting crimes, and such a change would disempower violent criminals and abusers who should be duly prosecuted for their actions.

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Background:
> White House: Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements
> Truthout: Defend and Protect Transgender Undocumented Women: Free Ms. Gonzalez
> NPR: Fear Of Deportation Spurs 4 Women To Drop Domestic Abuse Cases In Denver





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US security chief defends police-state measures against immigrants, visitors and citizens

By Patrick Martin

6 April 2017

In more than two hours of testimony before a Senate committee Wednesday morning, Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly defended the Trump administration’s sweeping attacks on democratic rights, directed against immigrants, visitors and US citizens and permanent residents. Kelly is a retired Marine Corps general who most recently headed the Southern Command, controlling all US forces in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Kelly confirmed the substance of a report in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security is considering requiring visitors to the United States to hand over their cellphones and social media passwords when they apply for a visa. They could also be asked about their views on political and social issues like the status of women. Similar requirements could also be applied to visitors from the 38 countries that now participate in the US Visa Waiver Program, including most European countries, Australia and Japan.

Gene Hamilton, a senior counselor to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), told the Journal, “If there is any doubt about a person’s intentions coming to the United States, they should have to overcome—really and truly prove to our satisfaction—that they are coming for legitimate reasons.”

Kelly claimed that this “extreme vetting” would be carried out only rarely. He presented it as the extension of an existing policy, already carried out under the Obama administration, where visitors can be pulled from the line during immigration screening at airports and other ports of entry and required to turn over their devices and passwords.

Several senators criticized this policy during their questioning of Kelly, including Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky. McCaskill, the top Democrat on the committee, pointed out the likelihood that other countries would impose similar security requirements on American visitors. “Every ambassador in Washington called back to their country” after the article on extreme vetting appeared in the Wall Street Journal, she said.

She asked whether Kelly expected Americans to turn over their cellphones and passwords as a condition of visiting London or Tokyo, suggesting that the result of such requirements would be a general collapse of travel and tourism.

Rand Paul asked Kelly about recent press reports that US citizens and permanent residents had been required to turn over cellphones and passwords as a condition of reentering the country. “I could be travelling abroad and denied entry to my own country,” he said, calling such a practice “obscene,” and a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which bans arbitrary searches.

Kelly claimed, “It’s not happening to citizens. In some cases, it’s happening to non-citizens, but not routinely.” He spoke unemotionally, as though the Bill of Rights did not apply to non-citizens, or that an occasional, rather than continuous, trampling on the Constitution was somehow acceptable.

The DHS secretary also confirmed the statement issued Tuesday by his department spokesman David Lapan that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would continue to arrest crime victims and witnesses inside courthouses where they had come to participate in judicial proceedings, if they were undocumented.

The DHS spokesman said at a press briefing, “Just because they’re a victim in a certain case does not mean there’s not something in their background that could cause them to be a removable alien.” He added, “Just because they’re a witness doesn’t mean they might not pose a security threat for other reasons.”

Senator Kamala Harris of California raised the subject, which has become a major political issue in California after a series of such arrests. State and local government officials in California complained that immigrants are refusing all collaboration with local police and prosecutors because of fear they will be arrested when they go to court to make a complaint or testify.

California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye sent a letter to Kelly and Attorney General Jeff Sessions protesting, “Courthouses should not be used as bait” in the enforcement of immigration laws. Kelly and Sessions replied with a letter defending the policy on the grounds that this was necessary to overcome resistance to ICE operations by local jurisdictions, so-called “sanctuary” cities, counties and states.

This policy exposes the cynical hypocrisy of Trump’s claims that his anti-immigrant crackdown is aimed at defending the rights of victims of crimes committed by “illegal” immigrants. In one recent case, a Houston woman was arrested by immigration agents when she filed to obtain a protective order against violent abuse by her citizen husband.

Kelly spoke extensively on two other important issues involving the US border with Mexico, comments which were immediately portrayed in the media as indicating a softer or more reasonable and pragmatic approach.

In response to suggestions from both Democratic and Republican senators, he declared that Trump’s promise of a wall between the US and Mexico did not mean a physical wall along every inch of the nearly 2,000-mile border. Border control could be established through walls, fencing, electronic detection or aerial patrol, he said. The most important locations for physical walls would be in urban areas, he said, and those identified by Border Patrol agents as particularly sensitive. (This practice, also developed under Obama, forces immigrants to cross in more dangerous areas, increasing the number of deaths in transit.)

These comments were hailed by Democrats like McCaskill and Jon Tester of Montana, who flattered Kelly as “being the adult in the room” when it came to the discussions within the Trump administration.

Kelly also indicated that the DHS was revising a policy of separating women and children from Central America when they came across the southwest border seeking asylum in the US. This policy was introduced earlier this year, with the aim of intimidating refugees and deterring them from fleeing violence in their home countries.

The DHS chief flatly declared that children would not be separated from their mothers unless “circumstances” indicated the mothers were a danger to them, such as drug addiction. However, he emphasized that the decision to flee from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras and attempt the long journey to the United States was itself endangering the children—a potential loophole for reinstituting the separation policy at some point in the future.

In response to questions from Harris, Kelly also elaborated on the new latitude that the Trump administration has given to ICE agents, going well beyond the prioritizing of undocumented immigrants with criminal felony convictions. He made it clear that ICE agents now have discretion to target virtually anyone who they suspect of being undocumented.

Kelly smugly declared that by virtue of this policy, ICE agents were now being “allowed to do their job,” with a corresponding dramatic improvement in morale. In other words, the border and immigration police are happy because they have been given the green light and unleashed on a defenseless population.

The increasingly repressive methods being employed against immigrants will be used against the entire working class. This is not a matter of speculation, or prognostication, but accomplished fact. Kelly told the Senate hearing that the DHS would push ahead with the “Real ID” program, which requires state governments to adhere to federal standards in the issuance of drivers’ licenses, with a deadline of mid-January 2018.

There are 23 states likely not to be in compliance with Real ID by the deadline, according to Kelly. Residents of these states will not be able to use drivers’ licenses to board a domestic airline flight. They will have to show a passport, border card or military ID, or they will be denied passage.

The Real ID program is a major step towards the establishment of a national ID card, for the first time in US history, laying the basis for a massive government database on every citizen and resident.

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Follow up for National Institutions Coming Out Day 2017


Chris,

Thank you for signing up to take part in the National Institutions Coming Out Day. You have an important role to play in making sure your students feel safe at their school and in their community.

I want to share with you some concrete things you can do to be in solidarity with undocumented students and families. By joining the national institutions coming out day 2017 you will be joining us to create spaces of resilience. Pledge now! April 19th we’ll highlight the commitments and hold live teach-ins. Here are two ways you can prepare and educate yourself ahead of this important day:


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Your support is so crucial for undocumented students. We want to provide reasons for students to feel safe both inside and outside of school.

Thank you for all you are doing.

In Solidarity,

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Watch Jasmine, Thomas, and Kimberly’s message for Trump! // Mira el mensaje de Jasmine, Thomas & Kimberley


We Belong Together


Dear Chris,

In just a few days, Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly, and Leah will kick off their spring break. But they’re not going on vacation. They’ll board a bus with dozens of other kids headed to DC to stand up for their families, their friends, and their future.

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As they travel through the Southeast on their way to DC, they’ll meet with other kids who are standing up for justice. In Atlanta, Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly, Leah, and their friends will talk with youth who are organizing against hate and the criminalization of Black youth. They’ll end the exchange with a tour of the historic West End Neighborhood to see their work in action!

In Raleigh, they’ll stand with kids in North Carolina urging Governor Cooper to resist Trump’s deportation machine so that their families can be together without fear.

Stay tuned for updates from the kids as they get ready for their big Caravan kick-off on Monday and be sure to share their video (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2gA/ni0YAA/t.269/kTCX-UkBQ0Kj06zrY5uoXw/h2/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiOaboHjMxF-2BGTpiZiGRwMYRVtkm-2FmN8NFcTQkl91UArvCDGNONC6gcTlWzaAdkE5A8iofB-2BtgOUN607LUYdjGMictlwPHWXPl1vdlDtuWTcQhpqcv-2FqhexBlEiFYHtGw1t2KI94-2BpabtvrM3JuLUd3p99FPH5fn2ff8GJko2FmW2wNadYcew1oHy 1-2FN2Nfkp8IWr9fTVGURnHPIdPCn2yvqfawTQCcOur6GgwT81i9 nCiV97TP0u8Lj8mUwKZiJ4kQM7IGCMp339nus2YWndpXODveic DGOgOuOvKb6NlPtl3SEhuUWiVKtLPCDbIvQooazcp2IYbQuewy KD1lkPAB9Axty3OKoJOhOiEA3oksi4wKNluagQubGcecae2H54 hAfE-2Fvw3sKzMRgTZ7ci-2FBj5FvT4-2F5dfcSjMlBR4skbureOWE007gmHA-2BNfH4El43beG-2BPln-2FnR-2Bgppqjsi9jsV2HBdHYGV9CySKGMrogi1l0RcNJiBBR6-2FD-2Fs3fPHfBPzfYbgKJCTm2-2Bt7nDAjCBXEFI9kcfGuTZcQeSpNLTrBB9BH0R5iC5Aditlkvv D-2B3zQQ-3D-3D) with your friends and family!

Together we can elevate the voices of these brave young people and remind elected leaders across the country that #WeBelongTogether — our bonds are stronger than anyone can break!

— Andrea on behalf of Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly, Leah, and all the We Belong Together Kids Caravan participants

P.S. We’ve learned that Secretary Kelly has rolled back plans to separate mothers and children seeking asylum at the border. Thank you for signing our petition and helping to create a national groundswell of outrage against this inhumane proposal!

[email protected] Chris,

En pocos días, Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly y Leah comenzarán sus vacaciones de primavera. Pero no van de vacaciones. [email protected] van en un autobús con docenas de niñ@s y jóvenes [email protected] a DC para defender a sus familias, sus [email protected] y su futuro.

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Mientras viajan por el sureste en camino a DC, se reunirán con [email protected] niñ@s que están defendiendo la justicia. En Atlanta, Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly, Leah y sus [email protected] hablarán con jóvenes que están luchando contra la criminalización de jóvenes [email protected] Terminarán el intercambio con un tour del histórico barrio de West End para ver su trabajo en acción!

En Raleigh, tomarán acción con niñ@s del estado de Carolina del Norte exigiendo al gobernador Cooper resistir la máquina de deportación de Trump para que sus familias puedan permanecer juntas sin miedo.

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— Andrea en nombre de Jasmine, Thomas, Kimberly, Leah, y todos los participantes de la Caravana Nos Mantenemos [email protected]

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Giovanni Rosales-Mendoza was detained for making an impossible choice. It's a choice so many immigrants are forced to make every single day: Take a risk to cross the border to see your family -- or remain here and remain separated.

Giovanni always searched for a connection to his father, who lived in Mexico. He came to the U.S. when he was 5 years old and grew up in Austin with his mother and siblings. In 2016, Giovanni finally made contact with his father, who was in poor health. Giovanni took the risk to go see his father in Mexico. Under threat of violence, Giovanni decided to risk his life to leave Mexico and return to the only home he's ever known. Soon after he crossed the border to reunite with his family, Giovanni was detained and is now detained at Cibola Detention Center in New Mexico.

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Federal Judge Says Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminates

By MANNY FERNANDEZAPRIL 10, 2017

HOUSTON — A federal judge ruled on Monday that the voter identification law the Texas Legislature passed in 2011 was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters, raising the possibility that the state’s election procedures could be put back under federal oversight.

In a long-running case over the legality of one of the toughest voter ID laws in the country, the judge found that the law violated the federal Voting Rights Act.

The judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, had made a similar ruling in 2014, but after Texas appealed her decision, a federal appellate court instructed her to review the issue once more.

The appeals court — the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans — found that Judge Ramos had relied too heavily on Texas’ history of discriminatory voting measures and other evidence it labeled “infirm” and asked her to reweigh the question of discriminatory intent.

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In her ruling on Monday, Judge Ramos wrote that the evidence cited by the Fifth Circuit “did not tip the scales” in favor of the state.

Her ruling sets the stage for a potential penalty for Texas that could have a long-lasting impact. Lawyers involved in the case said the ruling effectively strikes down the law, although the judge did not issue a separate order doing so. Texas officials are likely to appeal the decision.

“We’re disappointed and will seek review of this ruling at the appropriate time,” said Marc Rylander, a spokesman for the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton.

Some expected the ruling.

“This is an exciting ruling, but it is no surprise,” said Myrna Perez, a deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, which represented two of the groups that sued the state, the Texas N.A.A.C.P. and the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus.

“Texas passed the most restrictive photo ID law in the country — a law the legislators knew would hurt minority voting rights, without any evidence justifying it, and they broke all sorts of legislative rules and norms to do it,” Ms. Perez said.

Judge Ramos acknowledged the difficulty of pinning down the Legislature’s motives. She wrote of considering “all available direct and circumstantial evidence of intent” rather than trying to “discern the motivations of particular legislators.” The judge highlighted attempts by Democrats to blunt the racial impact of the law, known as Senate Bill 14, through amendments that were ultimately rejected, including allowing additional types of photo identification. “Many categories of acceptable photo IDs permitted by other states were omitted from the Texas bill,” she wrote.

Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which represented some of the plaintiffs, said the ruling on Monday marked the fifth time that a court found that the law had a discriminatory purpose or effect.

Judge Ramos’s decision, she said, “should sound the death knell for burdensome voter ID requirements in Texas and across the country.”

For decades, Texas and several other mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination had been required to seek federal approval before making changes to their voting laws. But the states were freed from that requirement in 2013, after a Supreme Court decision that invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

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The finding of intentional discrimination could once again put Texas under federal supervision. It would be the first state brought back into so-called preclearance since the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling. Judge Ramos did not address whether she would order Texas to undergo federal oversight, but will examine the issue during the next stage of the case.

The law was passed by the Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Rick Perry in 2011, but took effect in 2013. It required voters to show a driver’s license, passport or other government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot. It was previously found by the appellate court to have a discriminatory effect on black and Hispanic voters, many of whom lacked government-issued photo identification, and as a result was softened for the November 2016 election.

Numerous Democratic lawmakers, voters, civil rights organizations and black and Hispanic groups sued, arguing that Republican legislators steamrollered the bill through the State House and Senate. They said legislators departed from procedural norms in passing the law, including classifying it as emergency legislation, cutting debate short and bypassing the ordinary committee process in both chambers.

The plaintiffs told Judge Ramos in court documents and at various hearings that the law’s true purpose was to help Republicans maintain their hold on power amid the fast-paced growth of Democratic-leaning black and Hispanic voters.

Republican officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who defended the law in court when he served as the state’s attorney general, have long disputed any suggestion that lawmakers intentionally discriminated.

They said that the law was aimed at preventing voter fraud and that the departures from the normal legislative process were made to prevent Democratic lawmakers from manipulating procedural rules to thwart passage. They maintained that opponents had turned up no evidence that any legislator had intended to discriminate against blacks and Hispanics.

Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department had joined the legal fight against Texas. But in a reversal that angered civil rights lawyers and Texas Democrats, the Trump administration’s Justice Department withdrew from the part of the case that Judge Ramos decided on Monday: the agency’s claim that Texas had enacted the law with discriminatory intent.

Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights in President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, noted the timing of the ruling.

“I think it’s a very significant ruling in part because the Department of Justice under the Trump administration decided to abandon arguing for a discriminatory-intent holding,” Professor Bagenstos said. “This sort of makes the Department of Justice look bad for abandoning its previous position.”

The ruling marked the third time this year that a federal court found, in separate cases, that Texas or one of its municipalities intentionally discriminated against minority voters.

A judge ruled that officials in Pasadena, Tex., intentionally discriminated against Latino voters in redrawing the city electoral map. And a panel of judges in San Antonio ruled that the Legislature drew congressional districts in an intentionally discriminatory manner. The Republican lawmakers who passed the voter ID bill in 2011 also drew the discriminatory Congressional-district maps.

“The State of Texas must turn away from this pattern of discriminatory behavior,” said Janai Nelson, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which represented an African-American voter affected by the voter ID law.

Michael Wines contributed reporting from New York.

A version of this article appears in print on April 11, 2017, on Page A23 of the New York edition with the headline: Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminates Against Minorities, Judge Rules. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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#FreeEspilvio - Nicaraguan immigrant now!


Together we have helped stop deportations. Please help us free Espilvio Sanchez-Benavidez from detention who could be deported to his death.

Sign this petition calling on Representative Ileana Ros Lethinen and Representative Carlos Curbello to allow Giovanni to reunite with his family. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.26e/1VTQTs_ASgekNqV-cjVh4Q/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3AOTfpoiDIRWMSWBW4InARm81naKInPXOeAnU 1lRyePcRPfP2rSyIAZJNpX7CXBmET9-2FWS4q7XWpX87N7VOUy4QYUxxEfqSo6YySwJxbsdiTlvFFyeXS RDLqhEybpS1EzIs-2FCWwp4kmw-2FcvzSIDeGXHq6Nn5PDfZYnHAcytQKh1GxixG1bbHFJteKJYaq jvDlx0rjBoV2cpRUxkjogXgi1MYLWblN9Q680QimW1hvdY762Y sNDL9-2BPWSlgW0IcQSoZYR29Oc-2BXddLf80OI-2BSxmca78lDpdaJMH6GPVyKKw-2B6a1aEXSvyr-2FaxsgNVFvU9ZY-3D)


Chris,

At the age of 21 Espilvio had witnessed the murder of two of his family members for opposing the government in Nicaragua. Espilvio Sanchez-Benavidez decided to migrate in 2013 to the United States from Nicaragua in order to save his life after he too was threatened.

Espilvio has made a home here and found a safe space where he met his now wife Wendy and step daughter Bella Sofia. He’s raised Bella as his own daughter. Bella has only come to know Espilvio as her father, and the future for her is now blurred as he’s a step closer to deportation.

Will you join us to demand for his release today so Espilvio can return home where he belongs and be with Bella Sofia and his wife Wendy?

Sign this petition calling on Representative Ileana Ros Lethinen and Representative Carlos Curbello to allow Giovanni to reunite with his family. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.26e/1VTQTs_ASgekNqV-cjVh4Q/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3AOTfpoiDIRWMSWBW4InARm81naKInPXOeAnU 1lRyePcRPfP2rSyIAZJNpX7CXBmET9-2FWS4q7XWpX87N7VOUy4QYUxxEfqSo6YySwJxbsdiTvLRB41CS H3yh4-2Bk-2FltGQrzTmV3mf321w8gi1DpdHuXfCA6cmXazUHcaTO4owVypl RgMuqBPtdUHpG-2BOoresgOB8sy0yE3YaXjcsihnWtY-2FFZ4HWCIB7trt7pHxfK4-2FA30bbXpD-2FCF1iyKnRMRfBb5Ncfa9uuA78mIIFvS8pQR5Dct4VuIPNUCf4 0PtJ4f-2FfgSGy5npdZWuCTWVZV7PnAXI-3D)

Thank you for taking action today.

In solidarity,

Greisa and the rest of the team at United We Dream
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Urgent Call to Action! Urge Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to Fund Deportation Defense for All Not Just for Some!


Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)

Dear Chris,

Today, the Board of Supervisors is introducing a motion reducing the number of Los Angeles county immigrant community members that can get access to free legal representation if placed in deportation proceedings!

This motion is problematic for three main reasons:

This motion disproportionately affects low-income, LGBTQIA, women and black immigrant communities since they are most likely to be targeted by criminalization

Legal providers have expressed that this is a dysfunctional model and they will have to spend more than half of their time screening community members to find out they cannot represent them

Everyone deserves due process to better understand their rights and choices under immigration law. At the end of the day certain laws will dictate the outcome of the particular case.

We cannot let LA County discriminate against people who have convictions, especially given the systemic injustices within our criminal justice system. The carve-out will also make providing services more expensive and will end up helping fewer people. New York recently passed the first in the nation Universal Representation Program (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4Ko981QmHEsUAD%2B2oJCaAvECQxjnHJqL)! We need LA to follow.

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We urgently need your help opposing this motion with CALLS and SOCIAL MEDIA

At this point, we need to call ALL 5 of the Board of Supervisor offices and the Mayor expressing our strong opposition to this motion.

Numbers:
1) Sup. Solis: (213) 974-4111
2) Sup. Ridley-Thomas: (213) 974-2222
3) Sup. Kuehl: (213) 974-3333
4) Sup. Hahn: (213) 974-4444
5) Sup. Barger: (213) 974-5555
6) Mayor Garcetti: (213) 978-0600

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Hello, my name is ______. My zip code is _______. I am calling to express my strong opposition to the LA Justice Fund Client Prioritization and Services motion, which the LA County Board of Supervisors will hear on Tuesday. The LA Justice Fund must not bar any group of people from getting a lawyer to defend them from deportation. This is about due process and fairness. Don't buy into Trump's framework, dividing people into "good" and "bad" immigrants. Please stand up for immigrants and ensure the LA Justice Fund provides services to ALL our community members.

TWEET TODAY BETWEEN 9AM-12PM
Tweet Handles:
@HildaSolis
@SheilaKuehl
@mridleythomas
@SupJaniceHahn
@kathrynbarger

Sample Tweets:

Don't carve up the #LAJusticeFund! Stand up for ALL our community members and protect #DueProcess4All.

Carving out the #LAJusticeFund means carving up local families. Oppose the eligibility motion Tuesday! #DueProcess4All.

Don't endorse Trump's good/bad immigrant idea! For real justice in LA, don’t carve out the #LAJusticeFund! #DueProcess4All

Vote no on the #LAJusticeFund eligibility motion Tues. LA must take a stand for #DueProcess4All Do the right thing!

[email protected], my neighborhood stands for #DueProcess4All. My neighbors want a healthy #LAJusticeFund. We need you to take a stand today!

Thank you for your continuous support!
--
Marcela Hernandez
Deportation Defense Coordinator
Immigrant Youth Coalition
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Oppose Muslim Ban 2.0 & Muslim Laptop Ban



Wednesday | April 12, 2017

Dear Chris,

US Senate Bill 54 if passed will ban any government registry based on religion or national origin. The bill now has 10 Democratic Senators and one Independent Senator sponsoring it. But so far no Republican Senator.

The great pushback by Americans against the registry is paying off: San Francisco’s mayor signed (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H3RdfN8FdeUdq8XTMwT%2BgCk0QEeWfW1R) the first preemptive law opposing Trump’s proposed registry, we hope many more cities will follow. Recently, the TV series Quantico took on (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pUWfcwJc6irjTSQtowVX9ik0QEeWfW1R) Trump’s idea of a registry, and broke it down for viewers, questioning its premise and logic.


Action Items

Add your name to the #OneAmerica registry (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vzniDdYs5T9pTt%2FMIhzy3ik0QEeWfW1R)

Support S.b-54: “Protect American Families Act” (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MW1JIx%2FrztAwhariXIFY32TVhQnu2BPu)

While the database on Muslims has not been made a reality yet, Trump continues to stigmatize Islam and Muslims through other proposed measures. Trump’s second Executive Order restricting travel from Muslim nations was suspended swiftly by the Courts.

With the new Supreme Court appointee it will probably head for the Supreme Court.

Trump’s spokesman, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on the March 16 that the administration would appeal the rulings “very soon.” It is more important than ever to remain vigilant against the registry and the ban.


In solidarity,

Co-Chairs
One America Coalition
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, Marilyn Turkovich, Bob Thompson, Rev Chloe Breyer


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Watch the #WeBelongTogether Kids Caravan live from DC right now!


We Belong Together


Dear Chris,

It’s been an amazing few days for Charlene, Jasmine, Leah, William, Thomas, and all the youth on the #WeBelongTogether Kids Caravan!

Watch live as they end their journey by standing up for each other in front of the White House. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.26g/46TktHBcTEm_0SLvdlNURg/h0/HE2UYZIDTZxfLuJ8qHDFiOaboHjMxF-2BGTpiZiGRwMYRVtkm-2FmN8NFcTQkl91UArvVRs7mOkMsG-2BubdmfVuxXImV5XgDDsvhai00PMIN1ZvGKw9UQYH8ynTOKY-2FPdlYlVm1XT-2BaifKnbVnxpq-2Fk-2B0aT1ySCoGM3vuIAYNOzWujrot99By3JyLEM9mTb2h0l5idzb awx7Yat8dLT6JklmTm47J-2FpB8pfYMBEAcuwErLa-2FQiOErPxgx36aK-2Bvcitg2OnLluMqNceqA11OlIlSWS7L-2B7CbG7Ho1J0Zv32nSj-2B2DaC1FiGAeK8e-2FyHI1QmNB-2FOMtXDn218c0xLXHh7Rv0KyRCcTIhCfttO63eYL-2BYv7J0a-2F4wIL8Xh8p6755pm44F4onZozZYzUFdXSyoCPbT8-2BQ1QiSSEvIzyuzmVClZ6cnFCxQ-2FDRG3BlDF-2B1RoH1ovWvLflACnTDGprin-2Ff0w7BA-3D-3D) After days on the road, all the kids are ready to show Trump that their bonds are unbreakable and that no matter what, #WeBelongTogether!

On Monday, Charlene, a 16 year old Afro-latina, spoke at her first press conference and gave Mayor Gimenez an “F” for failing to protect immigrant families. On Tuesday the kids painted banners, danced and went on a tour of Atlanta’s West End with new friends to learn about their movement roots and the history of the black freedom struggle. On Wednesday they stood up for immigrant families in North Carolina.

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Next week it’s your turn to show elected leaders in your community that kids’ bonds are stronger than hate and that no matter what, #WeBelongTogether. Stay tuned for updates on local actions and for more information about how you can plan an event near you.

— With love and inspiration, Andrea, on behalf of all the Kids Caravan leaders


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Trump plans detention force and network of camps for immigrants

By Eric London

14 April 2017

The Trump administration is advancing plans to create a national force of paramilitary guards and officials aimed at deporting millions of undocumented people from the United States. According to the Washington Post, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning on jailing tens of thousands more immigrants in the coming period, hiring thousands of agents, as well as the construction of a wall between the US and Mexico.

According to an internal DHS memo acquired by the Post, the government is expanding the number of detention beds by 33,000, including some for “unaccompanied minors,” in other words, children held in prison.

These facilities will include five private, for-profit prisons and two government facilities. The total number of immigrants imprisoned on a daily basis will rise to around 70,000—approaching the number of Japanese-Americans interned by the Roosevelt administration during World War II.

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Mexican children wave as construction workers expand the border wall

The memo also explains that “progress” has been made and that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is “taking all appropriate action to immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall” along the border. One contractor proposed to build a wall with a moat filled with nuclear waste that immigrants would fall into if they attempted to cross.

DHS is also dredging up the most backward and fascistic elements to hire 5,000 new guards and agents who will serve as modern-day slave catchers. The memo announces that the agency has eliminated the most basic physical and mental fitness requirements for applicants and has dropped the requirement that applicants must pass a polygraph test.

To combat widespread hostility to immigration raids, DHS will engage in propaganda to “further improve brand awareness and convey the importance and scope of our mission within the public sphere.” To do so, DHS is targeting young people: “We will also continue to focus on increasing our digital and social media presence to reach the millennial generation; [and] expand our outreach at high schools, colleges and universities.”

The new memo comes after DHS announced it has hired two fascistic white nationalists, John Feere of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and Julie Kirchner of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), to serve as policy advisers to ICE and CBP, respectfully. The fact that CIS and FAIR are now helping direct the government’s immigration policy is a warning of even more brutal treatment to come.

The New York Times reported yesterday that the Trump administration is also seeking to eliminate even the minimal requirements for services at immigrant detention centers. The administration is considering dropping translation services for immigrants, eliminating rules that detainee requests for medical attention be granted within 24 hours, and closing a bureau responsible for overseeing conditions for protecting immigrant women from sexual assault.

Immigrant detention centers are already hellish places, often located in isolated areas, where immigrants are fed rotten food, barred from seeing their attorneys, and housed with violent non-immigrant criminals. Many immigrants are housed in county jails. One Ohio police sheriff told the Times, “Jail is jail … we don’t put chocolates on the pillows.”

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Two immigrants jailed at the West Texas Detention Facility

Private prisons house roughly 65 percent of detained immigrants, and this figure is likely to rise when the new expansion is carried out. The Democratic and Republican parties established a “detention bed quota” whereby the government is required to fill prisons with immigrants, producing windfall profits for privately-run facilities whose corporate executives donate heavily to both parties.

This massive expansion of the internment camp system for immigrant detention is taking place with the tacit approval of the Democratic Party, which has maintained an almost complete silence on Trump’s attack on immigrants in recent weeks. The Democratic Party has instead attacked Trump from the right, demanding that he prosecute the ruling class’s war drive against Russia in Syria while also threatening to attack North Korea.

Speaking at an event in Brooklyn, New York Wednesday, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said that Trump’s immigration program is “terrible for America because these are people who work and you’re taking people’s breadwinners away, you’re taking people away who businesses need. That’s why they’re here. And so we’ll do everything we can to stop that.”

Aside from Schumer’s cynical declaration that he “defends” immigrants because corporations need to exploit cheap labor, his claim that Democrats will oppose Trump’s immigration programs is a lie.

Schumer and the vast majority of Democratic senators showered DHS, ICE, and CBP with money during last year’s appropriations bill, which “provides appropriation for … Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology,” as well as “construction and facilities management.”

Democrats Schumer, Booker, Durbin, Feinstein, Franken, Gillibrand, Kaine, Klobuchar, Leahy, Reid, and many more agreed to pay the “salaries and expenses” of every immigration officer and border patrol agent. Each time an immigrant is deported, the Democratic Party has effectively signed their next check.

Widespread demonstrations have taken place against Trump’s immigration policies, and polls show large majorities oppose the construction of a border wall. Ninety percent of Americans support granting citizenship to immigrants who have lived in the US for several years. Last week, roughly 30,000 people demonstrated in Dallas, Texas to defend the rights of immigrants.

Democratic politicians spoke at the rally, including former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, who as HUD Secretary sold 98 percent of long-delinquent mortgages to Wall Street speculators at sweetheart rates through the Distressed Asset Stabilization Program.

Democratic state legislator Roberto Alonzo told the crowd to vote for Democrats: “The 2006 march and the movement around that is what turned Dallas County blue in 2008. First we march, then we govern.”

Alonzo failed to mention that when the Democrats governed under Obama, they deported 2.7 million undocumented people and set the stage for Trump’s expanded deportation program.

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Chicago must expand Sanctuary


Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago City Council must expand Sanctuary City.

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It's time for Chicago to stop doing Trump's dirty work.

TAKE ACTION! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/chicago-welcoming-city/?t=2&akid=7294.872082.1K9FhX)


Chris,

Chicago is not a Sanctuary city. This month it is expected that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago City Council will have two important decisions to make to expand Sanctuary in the city. Chicago has a potential amendment to a city ordinance called Welcoming City that aims to expand protections for immigrants. And another potential ordinance that will limit the power and notorious relationship between the Fraternal Order of Police and Chicago police department by setting crucial guidelines that will decrease police violence and hold police accountable. These changes would be major steps in creating policies that will reform Chicago’s police department and local government.

Right after Trump took office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel publicly announced that Chicago would remain a Sanctuary City.1 Yet, weeks later ICE officials rounded up hundreds of people in series of raids in Chicago and across the country -- taking people out their homes, workplaces, schools and away from their loved ones. Many Black people continue to be inflicted with violence by the hands of police. Those words echoed by Mayor Emanuel were empty promises.

Tell Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago City Council must expand Sanctuary protections for all people of Chicago by passing these important city ordinances. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/chicago-welcoming-city/?t=3&akid=7294.872082.1K9FhX)

Chicago has a long and damaging history of state violence that deeply impacts Black people’s lives and well-being. We still remember the tragic and horrific killing of teenager Laquan McDonald by a police officer. This prompted a federal investigation by the Justice Department and one of the largest community mobilization efforts to remove then state attorney Anita Alvarez from office for her failure to hold the police accountable at the time. Yet, the Chicago police still remain unchecked and still harms Black people.

Elected leaders have a responsibility to the communities they represent. A city cannot be Sanctuary if Black and Brown people are harassed and killed by police more frequently than anyone else. The police do not deserve all the power and control -- it's the people who deserve safety first. Sanctuary must be expanded to fully protect all marginalized communities. The Welcoming City ordinance and the Fraternal Order of Police resolution must be approved by Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago City Council. Both of these measures will provide a transformative step in protecting and improving the lives of all Chicago residents by redefining and expanding Sanctuary city.

Demand Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago City Council move forward with expanding protections for immigrants and ending the power of the Fraternal Police Union. Sign the petition. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/chicago-welcoming-city/?t=4&akid=7294.872082.1K9FhX)

The Trump Administration has the sole intent on attacking and silencing Black and Brown communities through its “Law and Order” agenda. Just days after the inauguration, Trump signed a series of vicious executive orders that target and disrupt the lives of immigrants -- from banning Muslim immigrants and refugees from traveling to the U.S. to emboldening more power to local law enforcement and ICE agents. One includes the elimination of federal funding to cities that are declared Sanctuary. In the aftermath, all across the country, many immigrants became prime targets and once again lived in fear. And just last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department would start to cut DOJ contracts to cities that are Sanctuary.

Then Trump pushed further and signed three specific executive orders that bolster the power and control of law enforcement. Each of these executive orders included the expansion of law enforcement, monitoring and surveilling activists within the Black Lives Matter movement, re-igniting the “War on Drugs” that includes increasing the funding for military equipment for local police departments. ALL of these measures are just the beginning. In Chicago and cities across the country, too many times we’ve seen the dismantling of our progress and civil rights. It’s time for cities to stop doing Trump’s dirty work, it’s time to resist.

Sign the petition. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/chicago-welcoming-city/?t=5&akid=7294.872082.1K9FhX)

Until justice is real,

Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Anay, Clarise, Enchanta, Malaya, and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

“As Trump signs immigration order, Emanuel vows Chicago will stay sanctuary city, ” Chicago Tribune, 01.25.2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7431?t=7&akid=7294.872082.1K9FhX


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100 Disruptions: Surveillance of immigrants


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Chris,

Social media is where we express ourselves freely, right? Not so much if you’re an immigrant — and especially not if you’re undocumented.

Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expanded the use of social-media surveillance to justify arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants all over the country, making the internet a pretty dangerous place.1

Local police as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are monitoring thousands of social-media accounts, poring through personal posts for anything they can use1 — and trampling all over basic human rights.

Today’s ask is to read and share the community advisory from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (https://act.freepress.net/go/16780?t=1&akid=6301.9036884.udU7Kz), which outlines these tactics and provides valuable tips for safety and security. Pass this guidance along to anyone who may be vulnerable, as well as those who provide services and support.

Let’s work together to protect the dignity of immigrants while fighting the surveillance state in all its forms.

Thanks for all that you do—

Collette, Lucia, Candace and the rest of the Free Press team
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1. “DHS Is Now Asking Some Foreign Visitors About Their Social Media,” CBS News, Dec. 22, 2016: http://act.freepress.net/go/16781?t=5&akid=6301.9036884.udU7Kz

2. Department of Homeland Security DHS Directives System Instruction Number: 110-01-001 Revision Number: 00 Issue Date: June 8, 2012: https://act.freepress.net/go/16782?t=7&akid=6301.9036884.udU7Kz

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Trump seeks to restrict visas used by high-tech companies

APRIL 18, 2017, 7:49 A.M.

Trump to take first step toward restricting visas used by tech industry

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President Trump on Tuesday will take what the White House is calling a “transitional step” toward a revamped immigration system, ordering a review of a visa program meant to attract skilled immigrant labor that administration officials say has been abused to the detriment of American workers.

An executive order Trump is scheduled to sign during a visit to a Wisconsin manufacturer will direct federal agencies to review the H-1B visa program, which is widely used by the tech industry to bring workers in from other countries.

The White House argues that the program has been “abused to the point of being rendered … inoperative,” as an official told reporters Monday, bringing in workers for positions where they earn less than the industry average paid to American workers. That's a criticism that has also been widely made by outside analysts.

A senior administration official, briefing reporters Monday on the condition of anonymity ahead of the president’s event, said the goal of the review would be to shift the process for awarding H1-B visas to put a priority on higher-skilled and higher-paid workers, making it more difficult to use it to replace American workers.

Trump's plan, which also directs a separate review of government purchasing requirements, is consistent with the “Buy American, Hire American” credo that was a staple of his campaign, featured prominently in his inaugural address and outlined in his address to Congress in February.

“This is a transitional step to get toward a more skills-based and merit-based immigration system,” the official said.

The executive order is the latest in a series of steps the administration has already taken on H-1B visas. Under guidance issued earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security, companies seeking to sponsor computer programmers for a guest visa would need to take additional steps to verify the tasks performed qualify as a “specialty occupation.”

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BREAKING NEWS: #JusticeForJuan


Chris,

The Trump administration has chosen to deport a DACA recipient. This is despite the fact that Trump promised he wouldn't target DACA recipients.

We must stand up against Donald Trump's ICE AND CBP thugs who are doing this to our community. If Juan wasn’t safe, anyone can be next.

Our response to Juan's deportation needs to be immediate and powerful. This deportation force is unacceptable and against our vision for our country. This is a moment for our #HereToStay network to shine. We must take action to demand Members of Congress reject funding for Trump's agenda, be bold by demanding that Juan Manuel is brought home, and be proud. And we need to do it immediately.

Sign this petition to demand Department Homeland Secretary John Kelly bring back Juan from Mexico (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4wA/ni0YAA/t.26m/XrigUKJjSuW1y299mwFeXQ/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3C4U3QucyAVfDmr4cr5BeH5RRf-2B3sfnuL6Ejhufw774ssqeM3-2BhB5PxndZfwq40OZqIf8eH5nCG7e8QO-2FLHef7aX-2BSFtzIHw83ljxcIBVU4kD0tjE-2BvOrwf3VGndFyXifyM5dsSQGsxsVjRImIp1mEIc1INwjXoxoM 5MCOEMEt9C8Kg3nRY4QvHEoCt7aO41-2F7JtMAqD1bMX6Q9Uog-2B09dnbOA2vF8tN0U2QXoGt3irZ0-2FNPXlDvbc7nXd2Sr6EEGDCH5O5RQePxyLZRpHlhQHRmgB-2Fzar4DD4V2FPI71xIgK8-2BKLbX90xpeIk-2B2W-2FAXnjTu96fA76IcdK8kL3iPRC3)

On February 17, Juan Manuel Montes was walking to a taxi stand in his hometown in California when he was approached by border officials and asked for his papers. Though Juan is authorized to live and work in America through the DACA program, he was deported to Mexico just hours later.

Juan was brought to the United States by his family when he was 9 years old. He had graduated from high school and was working while finishing community college at the time he was picked up. He was nearly finished with his welding degree.

DACA recipients like Juan and myself come forward, file paperwork, receive background checks, and pay fees. In exchange, we receive work authorization and a promise that the federal government will not deport us. But we know DACA recipients have been wrongfully detained by ICE. And now, for the first time, a DACA recipient has been deported. We need to make sure the Trump administration and the entire country hear us:

Tell Secretary John Kelly: Bring DACA-Recipient Juan Back from Mexico! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4wA/ni0YAA/t.26m/XrigUKJjSuW1y299mwFeXQ/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3C4U3QucyAVfDmr4cr5BeH5RRf-2B3sfnuL6Ejhufw774ssqeM3-2BhB5PxndZfwq40OZqIf8eH5nCG7e8QO-2FLHef7aX-2BSFtzIHw83ljxcIBVU4kD0tjE-2BvOrwf3VGndFyXifyM5dsSQGsxsVjRImIp1mEIS80fcCJy8fa QJ4l535hon9mTGoPUpOdJ7cYNxwjEQhFJuccAVP2xTtXZj8ojf 1u8dtVpqSeiKJ8AxrfOPz6mLH5WcUOR7ffJQemzJGHgzBLtNSz 7Cz-2B-2FS-2Bc8Lo-2F5o2Jzj-2BJ-2BD4plxRRkKMg2azmCy9h90s7f767-2B5KG72cqjx7WipjsMvBe1qrxCPNaz8Ttx)

We delivered over 50,000 petitions to Secretary Kelly to demand Dany and Daniel’s release, and now they are both free. Our movement is making a difference. Now it’s time to put our power behind Juan.

Adrian and the rest of the team at United We Dream

P.S. Join us tonight at 8pm ET on Facebook Live to learn about how you can take action on the ground to bring back Juan and stop future detentions and deportations from happening https://www.facebook.com/unitedwedream

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The #BerksKids Don’t Belong in Detention


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Dear Chris,

The Berks County Residential Center is just one of the family detention centers that still exists in this country. It’s also “home” for Antonio, Carlos, Josue, and Michael, four children – all under five years old – who have spent the last 500 days in “baby jail.” These children, along with their mothers, fled horrific violence and danger and came to the U.S to seek safety. Instead of refuge, they were locked up. We need to close detention centers like Berks, not create more.

Sign Now to Stop Trump’s Anti- Immigrant Agenda. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=910522&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Right now, President Trump is asking Congress to fund his hateful agenda on immigrants. He wants $3 million for his abusive enforcement policies, including more than $1 million to put more families in detention even though they are fleeing here to seek safety.

President Trump’s policies of bigotry and xenophobia show the true cost of fear but together we can stop them. Trump’s budget proposal can’t move forward without the support of your members of Congress. Before this moves forward, make sure your members of Congress know where you stand.

Tell your members of Congress to reject President Trump’s abusive enforcement agenda. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=910522&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Antonio, Carlos, Josue, and Michael need you. While their current deportation order has been blocked they are still being held in detention. There is no reason for these children to be locked up. Seeking asylum is not a crime.

Together we can stop Trump’s anti- refugee agenda because children deserve safety, not detention.

Thank you for taking action,
Margaret Huang
Executive Director, Amnesty International USA

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Tell Congress: No Money for Trump's Wall


Tell Members of Congress to Block "The Wall"

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#BanTheBudget

ACT NOW! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-congress-no-border-wall-money/?t=2&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP)


Dear Chris,

This week Trump’s budget proposal will be released and he wants us to pay for “The Wall” that was his grand scheme! Mexico said “No!” to Trump's bully tactics, and we need to follow suit.

An estimated $70 billion is the expected cost to build a wall along the U.S. Mexico border, one of Trump's great promises that now everyone is on the hook for but him.1 Trump promised his supporters that this wall was being built for public safety and to protect jobs, as a ploy for his real racists agenda, but the budget he proposed puts all of those things into jeopardy and directly impacts the people who overwhelming voted for him. Democratic Members of Congress are starting to take a stand against Trump’s wall proposal and budget as a whole, and if we can peel away even a small amount of Republican support, we’ll be able to block the funding for this potential disaster just like we did with Trump Care a few weeks ago.

Chris, this is an all hands on deck throw down. Sign this petition to stop the wall and #BanTheBudget. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-congress-no-border-wall-money/?t=3&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP)

Programs like “Meals on Wheels”, after-school and summer activities, SNAP benefits, youth and senior job programs, and civil rights and environmental protections are all on the chopping block just to name a few.2 These are the real budget priorities that keep us safe but Trump wants to slash them to pay for his pet project.

Trump convinced vulnerable communities to bite the bait by believing that a smaller government meant more opportunity for them. But the reality is, he’s doing more than “cutting the fat” from the government, he’s ripping away programs that are life support for folks as if it’s just a simple cosmetic lift. Trump's first 100 days has been leading us on a road to nowhere that’s full of fear and empty promises. He is on track to spend just as much money on his personal travel and golf excursions as it would keep some of these programs intact.

In small rural towns like East Liverpool Ohio, Southwest Pennsylvania and other Appalachian towns, people are immobilized with fear around the impacts of this budget. Apparently, 7 out of the 12 federal programs intended to assist coal mining communities are being cut, including the Appalachian Regional Commission which will be cut completely.3 These are the very same communities that turned out in mass to vote for Trump, that are now saying “Not my president”, let's #BanTheBudget!

We need Members of Congress to step up and not allow funding for the wall. We need them to #BanTheBudget. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-congress-no-border-wall-money/?t=4&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP)

And now that Trump has his “top cop” Jeff Sessions in office as the Attorney General, the Department of Justice is taking major hits as well. The Civil Rights Division, which is the only federal institution that investigates and holds police accountable to the law and enforces anti-discrimination laws, is being cut severely. Over 40 attorneys were abruptly fired from the DOJ last month with no intentions on filling those positions because of these cuts.4 However, this administration thinks it's more important and of priority to invest over $600 billion into "rebuilding the military" and dump billions into flawed local police departments, rather than investing in the people of this country.

Stand with us and over 50,000 members and urge Congress to #BanTheBudget not people. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-congress-no-border-wall-money/?t=5&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP) Divesting over $70 billion to build a wall and putting even more into policing is not going to ensure more safety or economic opportunities.

Until Justice Is Real!

Arisha, Rashad, Scott, Malaya, Enchanta, Clarise, Anay and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

Democrats say President Trumps border wall could cost $67 billion,” TIME, 04.18.2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7822?t=7&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP

Proposed budget cuts for 2017 include, AIDS, AmeriCorps programs,CNN, 03.30.2017 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7823?t=9&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP

Rural Ohio worried about "hardship" under Trump's budget, whcih would eliminate Appalachian Regional Commission; Cincinnati.com, 04.20.2017 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7825?t=11&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP

A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorney's in place; The Washington Post, 04.18.2017 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7826?t=13&akid=7345.872082.bu2JVP


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ADC Files Brief Opposing Arab and Muslim Ban


American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee


ADC Files Brief Opposing Arab and Muslim Ban

Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org (http://www.adc.org/) | April 25, 2017 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) vigorously opposes the Executive Order (EO) travel bans. At the request of the Plaintiffs attorney’s in IRAP v. Trump, the American Civil Liberties Union and the International Refugee Assistance Program, ADC filed an amicus brief to the Fourth Circuit (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ACqyd5kSL7Ot6no206zcAQxKB%2BpJgTDm).

Since the implementation of the first travel ban on January 27, 2017, ADC led efforts to provide direct assistance and representation to individuals subject to the ban. Based on the thousands of ADC documented reports from individuals, ADC was able to provide a unique perspective and contribution to the court on the actual harm individuals will continue to suffer under the second EO.

ADC’s brief focused on the substantial impact that the Ban would have on families, refugees, students, and professionals through case specific facts and examples. We persuasively argued that the case-by-case waivers and exemptions are a pretext to discrimination by requiring extra requirements that: 1) are only imposed on Arab travelers based on national origin; and 2) set an impossible and unattainable burden on travelers that the government knows travelers cannot meet.

We know the Arab and Muslim ban is not about national security. No matter how many revisions, we know the intent, purpose and effect is to exclude Arab travelers based on their identity.

If you or anyone you know has questions or concerns regarding the Arab and Muslim Ban, please contact ADC for legal advice at 202-244-2990 or [email protected]

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Seven Kids Need Their Dad! Help Us Free Antonio / 7 Niños Necesitan Su Papá! Ayúdanos a Liberar a Antonio


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Dear Chris,

We need you to take action right NOW to stop the deportation of Antonio Sanchez Can you take 10 seconds and sign & share the petition?

SIGN THE PETITION HERE: bit.ly/freedadof7

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About the Case:

#FreeDadOf7: Free Antonio, Birmingham Father of Seven!

Antonio Sanchez (A# 209 767 953) is the loving father and husband and sole financial provider to his seven U.S. citizen children and his wife Leticia, who live in Pinson, Alabama, just north of Birmingham. Their youngest child, Yazmin, is only five months old. Their oldest son Daniel is about to turn 18 years old, and their oldest daughter, Jessica, is 15 years old; both attend Pinson Valley High School. Antonio has lived in the U.S. for 25 years, since he was 15 or 16 years old. “My dad is a good father. He provides us with everything we need. Please send him back to us,” pleaded Jessica.

On Monday, April 10th, an officer with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office pulled over Antonio on his way to work, claiming he had a lot of materials in the back of his pickup truck, which he uses to do landscaping work. The police didn’t end up issuing Antonio any ticket for the incident, but when they saw in the system that he hadn’t shown up to a court date for an old ticket, they arrested him and booked him into the county jail.

Under the much-criticized “Secure Communities” program, which has been revived by the Trump Administration, ICE was notified that Antonio was in the jail. Even though Antonio’s wife posted his bond the next morning, the jail kept Antonio locked up for extra time, without a warrant, so that ICE agents could come pick him up. Antonio is now being detained in Jena, Louisiana and is facing deportation. Antonio had made some mistakes in his past that he deeply regrets and from which he has long since rebuilt his life to focus on his family and work. He has several misdemeanor convictions for DUI and domestic violence, all from over ten years ago. As his wife Leticia explains, “Antonio used to suffer from alcoholism that sometimes led him to act in harmful ways, but he has long since rehabilitated. He took anger management classes, and changed his whole life out of love for his children and me.”

Take action now to demand that ICE release Javier from detention and close his deportation case.

Also, check out this video (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ci1vlmSGa5udbI0Ijqd3l7qmxvhoCujQ) from Antonio's wife and children, asking for your support!

In Solidarity,

Cesar Mata, Organizer, Adelante Alabama Worker Center

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Estimado/a Chris,

Necesitamos que tomes acción AHORA para detener la deportación de Antonio Sanchez. ¿Puede tomar 10 segundos y firmar y compartir la petición?

FIRMA LA PETICIÓN AQUÍ: bit.ly/freedadof7

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Sobre el caso:

Libera a Antonio, Padre de Siete Niños de Birmingham, Alabama!

Antonio Sánchez (A# 209 767 953) es el cariñoso padre y esposo y único sustento financiero de sus siete hijos ciudadanos y su esposa Leticia, que viven en Pinson, Alabama, justo al norte de Birmingham. Su hija menor, Yazmin, tiene sólo cinco meses de edad. Su hijo mayor Daniel está a punto de cumplir 18 años y su hija mayor, Jessica, tiene 15 años; los dos asisten a Pinson Valley High School. Antonio ha vivido en los Estados Unidos por 25 años, desde que tenía 15 o 16 años. "Mi papá es un buen padre. Él nos da todo lo que necesitamos. Por favor, mándalo de regreso a nosotros," suplicó Jessica.

El lunes 10 de abril, un oficial de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Jefferson paró a Antonio cuando iba manejando en camino a su trabajo, alegando que tenía muchos materiales en la parte de atrás de su camioneta, que utiliza para hacer trabajos de jardinería. Al final el policía no le dio ningún ticket para el incidente, pero cuando vio en el sistema que él no había comparecido a una cita de corte para otro ticket, lo arrestaron y lo detuvieron en la cárcel del condado.

Bajo el muy criticado programa de "Comunidades Seguras," que ha sido revivido por la Administración Trump, ICE fue notificado de que Antonio estaba en la cárcel. A pesar de que la esposa de Antonio pagó su fianza la mañana siguiente, lo mantuvieron encerrado por tiempo adicional, sin orden judicial, para que los agentes de ICE pudieran pasar a recogerlo. Antonio ahora está detenido en Jena, Luisiana y está en proceso de deportación. Antonio había cometido algunos errores en su pasado que lamenta profundamente, pero ya había cambiado su vida desde hace mucho tiempo para enfocarse en su familia y su trabajo. Él tiene algunas condenas de nivel misdemeanor (delito menor) por manejar bajo influencia y violencia doméstica, todo de hace más de diez años. Como explica su esposa Leticia, "Antonio solía sufrir de alcoholismo que a veces lo llevó a actuar de una manera dañina, pero hace tiempo se rehabilitó. Tomó clases de control de la ira y cambió toda su vida por amor a sus hijos y a mí."

Tome acción ahora (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HyQQEAA3U8DrwqrTza%2Bw9rqmxvhoCujQ) para exigirle a ICE que liberen a Javier y que cierren su caso de deportación.

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En solidaridad,

Cesar Mata, Organizador, Adelante - Centro de Trabajadores de Alabama



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Trump’s First 100 Days: Immigrant Women on the Frontlines // Los primeros 100 días de Trump: Mujeres inmigrantes en primera línea


We Belong Together


***Abajo en Español***

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Dear Chris Kaihatsu,

From what we’ve seen of Trump’s first 100 days in office, we know he fully intends to promote his campaign agenda of misogynistic, nativist and hateful policies that tear apart our communities and families. His consistent target has been immigrants, refugees, black communities, Muslims, LGBTQ people and many others.

We Belong Together has released a report I co-wrote called “Trump’s first 100 DAYS: Immigrant Women and Families on the Frontlines.” (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2AA/ni0YAA/t.26v/DH62DXTlSpKDMQppmiF74A/h1/mRFSsGx1V2Yt5DTcThhi0UdHF2JfMTVKRYJAWMA2CGVf9atgBK TzSKLRzWH0nOWlTmKwXaOn8NgNz-2FtzB5hdvZcfM43EiaO-2BwKmMhMCwL8R8nlbaWlT-2Bvi3rhx8WepQo1kcrjAtBBGqMYVABg-2FhYEzM4FWNz6XE0vbJD2E-2FH3-2BFOh3-2F23zCHabnpa0EgQIbhcEycpGIuN7yc5iLBmznaIEZjukLN5Ur W2YUT5F3uVZRfzrwODofBHiyZDo8yP0AOHlpYyOvK-2B05PHBYNPNfaHuiXVjFREqOVbwOVFFPs2v30OOZc5HMe3-2F5-2FVPQUiqXNt-2F7PhSo-2B81KLzaDGB-2BxwjYAcu5hbfgCkOdFGyQ7-2BUEvS3LjyHZBRZ-2FIArIZn3YBip4BUKYB5bKVjR1I9csI7FRXgilK3IhxhfANJi3 eMbWYclQqb4eZXSCufspMCIlX1GNNoDknNkAurmPqh8Nk2AMzZ-2BPRbbTQnmjq7wtdfWsEhwEPNkXvycuT4fFVeiPjr7CYl0ATWW fxExJQWJyEzPFycY87pq-2B2qghACEDI2T0ETlovR0YLXC7zvAQ9r14Exe6zO154P3d0jCa Yy5REsUzFjin7Hh5qEPq6ocKgrj5hT-2FAXdM4Hjr2PwcR37xqntHhZ4txK4N5-2BJjhBzbk8vV1SyEuO-2FK6DmN2Qc57lG6qwRt9MMHBxgyD8R2rBLO6dge1Ut50eFOqhR gKwY8LWybg-3D-3D)

There are 20 million immigrant women in this country and 5 million are undocumented, including indigenous women, black women, and refugees. Trump’s executive orders on immigration, hateful rhetoric, travel bans, and attacks on access to basic health and reproductive care, deeply impact women and their families.

However, while immigrant women and families are among the most affected by Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti-women, anti-refugee, anti-poor policies and politics, we are also on the frontlines leading the resistance that is pushing back and winning victories.

Read more about our resistance in our report and share! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2AA/ni0YAA/t.26v/DH62DXTlSpKDMQppmiF74A/h2/mRFSsGx1V2Yt5DTcThhi0UdHF2JfMTVKRYJAWMA2CGVf9atgBK TzSKLRzWH0nOWlTmKwXaOn8NgNz-2FtzB5hdvV-2BKggmcyoT3beaXKZPZnmplAnTcucS7-2B8bXLK4UfoDdGSnbxmXRUoZ8LRL4mkseDM6sHqjzIBcZ7IWo4 nQN5fg2t-2FQKzsDEQg69vOVr8BbgK2mWdS8j5eWeRtnxEvMkjVMGTNGWRC Z45-2FpN1ci-2FlvA3Tk1lHOwy5PcwNzbQGYS8ZwQDkHM4Uj7P0Pjh18KTuEDB YoKVTOvICnCE-2BKb3noKY3g9OMPsNIHJSUkUM-2BbmNZ098EAzCoTU6w-2BeWMmfJCHp9Lq0kUBE1Axm8hlBS-2BhUsQWmVVJiQhLVfkJGGOSQStSEqItFrYCKoYdQL3iyb-2B-2FOmLBeA9U-2BgjEKp8vh5Y93CpKahxyjeokSupc8PKUpqBvidFhBzRxg-2BxHWtCqHTAJu-2Bose6rxhSwzhVbThT3UIyE7p0lvMFCs-2B7GgKAJlwObSE0za413Vn3k-2BF2gmj9yWtjE0Wdp2iiGEwJsRb5Gx1MqY4k6L-2B703wvwg1zrqodk1FJW8qiPY2Xao7mohkbObyPzAE4mkBqLOH BD-2FtAXkevqxvS6Ne2GCVLzUGMqZomrVcGX5unQvYmtbZRNjzexX ptbOMf0EZuLSsJFls9WOGqr0ot0XBf-2FRIXr0isGhce0pTv61cm9L1mLJ6-2BcB8U7A-3D-3D)

As we mark the first 100 days of Trump, we must remember that in order to achieve women’s equality, we need to fight for justice and equality for the women that are most marginalized and criminalized, including immigrant women and women of color.

The brave leadership of immigrant women and women of color on the frontlines of the resistance inspires and will lead the way to keeping our communities safe and to fighting for full dignity for all of us.

Together we will continue to resist and defend democracy and human rights, because We Belong Together.

In sisterhood,

Sameera Hafiz, Beyond Survival Campaign Director

[email protected] Chris Kaihatsu,

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Por lo que hemos visto de los primeros 100 días de gobierno de Trump, sabemos que él tiene la intención de promover su agenda de campaña llena de políticas misóginas, nativistas y discriminadoras que desgarran a nuestras comunidades y familias. Los inmigrantes, refugiados, comunidades negras, musulmanes, personas LGBTQ y muchos otros se han convertido en objetivo constante de sus ataques.

We Belong Together ha publicado este informe que co-escribí llamado "Los primeros 100 días de Trump: Las mujeres inmigrantes y las familias la en primera línea". (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2AA/ni0YAA/t.26v/DH62DXTlSpKDMQppmiF74A/h4/mRFSsGx1V2Yt5DTcThhi0UdHF2JfMTVKRYJAWMA2CGVf9atgBK TzSKLRzWH0nOWlTmKwXaOn8NgNz-2FtzB5hdvYpZjpXpbqUJBTJIOoy-2BEbeDhH8uxECg0dXA-2BVQLcR-2Bu-2FR-2FsANrZjlojQp8GXw7KN5iuaegZu9XQlEVED65j6MvE6-2Bx7o4R9KAHeNva5aVH5Oql5sSDeeH72EGX6zZVeFuVD0qemIv GMRCFIxXywZKJb-2Fndb7aEqhvFmgBYxbxvHF82mtaQWP6yGA3WjzUh-2FmWG75Dk0gqwVtgcgjgMstnTaCa4TxE-2FiUpBcpKN6frqEt1Joc13t4weNL4zm9ZF6BGuct9PLSqYuCCc Bp5ffDHxhyMuXkVBi0p4s6feBneS2wewYrKFriJAJyHfgaWwxp ikDriAEy17dJdwamOkNN97yKgjyag8ojybUeyAd3xx1mb6KumV XBeWabVsHk5GfqNE2rgEr8viYvBGcRVZo2Hw9oFMDZ0UzNJfI2 8PQ5Y5dtB-2BxOCpvvKE0UdIIgRA3jBl8o5ozWBuI30SH8KLyxR8armuhstO 0gCHKTMFHHHdwG1vhGgD1OXxESdw8za-2FQUW3h5R7mE1w-2BQd7GR-2BEfRimdwMKHfgeVerPZVE4BAI7-2B3TPr9NdPEiirzvrqz1N9aY7PhltTIApQHfhONpVay6afMEek EQoqA-2FxEVNOUP9upqScc10Sp9vEYSw16FCXV-2Fw-3D-3D) (Disponible en inglés por el momento)

Hay 20 millones de mujeres inmigrantes en este país y 5 millones son indocumentadas, incluyendo mujeres indígenas, mujeres negras y refugiadas. Las órdenes ejecutivas de Trump sobre inmigración, la retórica cargada de odio, las prohibiciones de viaje para los musulmanes y refugiados, y los límites al acceso a la salud básica y el cuidado de la salud sexual y reproductiva, afectan profundamente a las mujeres.

Sin embargo, mientras que las mujeres inmigrantes y sus familias estamos entre las más afectadas por las políticas antiinmigrantes, anti-negros, anti-mujeres, anti-refugiados, anti-pobres, también estamos en la primera fila de la resistencia y logrando algunas victorias.

¡Lea más sobre nuestra resistencia en este reporte y comparta! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2AA/ni0YAA/t.26v/DH62DXTlSpKDMQppmiF74A/h5/mRFSsGx1V2Yt5DTcThhi0UdHF2JfMTVKRYJAWMA2CGVf9atgBK TzSKLRzWH0nOWlTmKwXaOn8NgNz-2FtzB5hdvfjUVOL3Q07jJwUB-2FcL1SzDCxmx8-2BykjcIV5TCoiKEixGwMvcqvuRYFvto8EKhAzrWwMPPttY-2BOvvkEcDIuIt0kmNOwcQ3iOkwZT9ZKMEKrX6GisvBmmwmLi7m ueeaRICU57NfsWCLxBmpj4fUbblBliKHgkj7QhT2z-2BMey-2B-2BI8Nr9OEwUciCcw9o8vtT9yaGO-2FDO-2B7o2PT1JNf6KYCfWLMm98-2FN4W8WHGrMBpL5bij-2B3WdtycOXPPh-2FqIKG0vY6OQgnhLwFI7zIuG0LVPeA1WrPeN0059ZnoZw11coL fdkncSO4HeT2-2FBowoae7gYsGPUuXjr0itq8D1VKZQSJyybID-2BZNYpuhfwtwi3gCzuKI2QYz9kzpGqQm2culPEX3uv9mDgEdWu C7HTwyhIeZlpP9zMB9-2FzK-2BDqJyuPzeelphyJukZWsfhqAuNvyG2BvJOzXDdLAGQPEwvspD svXzHhAVVZmZHRCAiraURkpai7DObiPwyumWNnQ5DbDteqmpJJ MaF-2BtA3ViRyJl61TbhtxBOYov8PYdyqhQgFH1J8OKRWLLiLeiPqI gxPqMUdJ-2FuIToSHDCnSn500QrRc6CJuJK2x06i-2ByCgSOmdP3WMjjdWeiWTKeay-2B5oQoZmzfJdlJNQ-3D-3D)

Al marcar los primeros 100 días de Trump, debemos recordar que para lograr la igualdad de todas las mujeres, debemos luchar por la justicia y la igualdad para las mujeres más marginadas y criminalizadas, incluidas las mujeres inmigrantes y las mujeres de color.

El liderazgo valiente de las mujeres inmigrantes y las mujeres de color en las primeras filas de la resistencia inspira y guía el camino en la lucha para mantener nuestras comunidades seguras y por la plena dignidad para todos.

Sigamos resistiendo juntas, defendiendo la democracia y los derechos humanos, porque debemos mantenernos unidas.

En hermandad,

Sameera Hafiz


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May Day 2017! Defend immigrant rights and build workers unity! Defeat Trump! (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=99f547dfcb&e=d323598fe4)

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By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

May Day is a day for immigrant and workers’ struggle. The Freedom Road Socialist Organization thinks it is important to join the tens of millions around the world who rally and march on International Workers Day.

This year across the U.S., many immigrant rights groups and some unions will rally and protest as part of the 100 days of resistance to the reactionary Trump agenda. It is important to build the protests, help link issues together, and unify the fight to make the country ungovernable.

The movements against Trump are rising

Even before he was elected, Trump faced demonstrations of hundreds and thousands nearly everywhere he went. In Chicago students led 10,000 people in shutting down Trump during the Republican primaries. Next the Coalition to Stop Trump and March on the Republican National Convention took over the streets of Cleveland in July 2016. Then on Nov. 9, the day after the election, many thousands of young people took to the streets of every city big or small to protest the election outcome.

This was followed on Jan. 20 by protesters hitting the streets of Washington D.C. and other cities to protest Trump’s Inauguration Day. The next day historic numbers of people joined the Women’s Marches. This caused Trump’s team to break into conniptions as they claimed “alternative facts” to explain low turnout at Trump’s Inauguration.

The wave after wave of protests increased the fighting spirit of the masses as Trump took office. Trump quickly issued executive orders and presidential memoranda attacking immigrants, Muslims, American Indians, environmental regulations, business oversight, and sensible federal agencies. Trump proposed cutting all the social spending budgets while increasing the military budget by billions.

“No ban! No wall! Legalization for all!”

The protests at airports across the country in response to Trump’s Muslim ban were huge and effective. The emergency response to such an outright attack against Muslims hugely impacted the debate in society and the actions of the courts. The mass action and bold tactics show that people’s movements can beat back Trump’s anti-democratic attacks, consolidate organizing gains, and prepare for the next round of repression.

International Workers Day comes in the context of increasingly ugly attacks on immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE raids work places and abducts undocumented people driving to work, or dropping their children at school. In one case ICE took a woman preparing for a surgery out of the hospital. News of these outrages spread quickly amongst immigrants. Trump and his advisor Steve Bannon think that they will make the masses cower in fear, but the undocumented and their families are rising up to protect themselves and their communities. The undocumented masses are becoming emboldened to protest and march on May Day.

In February, many cities with Mexican, Central American, and other immigrants held “A Day Without Immigrants” rallies and marches, where some schools had to declare a snow day because so few students were present. This May Day we will see a big turnout as immigrants stand up and fight back. Demands will range from stopping the Muslim travel ban and opposing Trump's border wall, to stopping deportations and demanding legalization. We need to also support refugees from Syria and the Middle East where the U.S. is making war and illegally intervening.

May Day is a day for unity and struggle!

May Day has a glorious history. Back in 2006, the immigrant rights marches, largely led by Mexicans and Chicanos, surged into the streets and reminded the world that International Workers Day originated in Chicago. Over 2 million participated in mega-marches in nearly every city, demanding legalization for all and shaking the political establishment.

It was over130 years ago that immigrant and American workers united to strike Chicago’s big industrialists, demanding the eight-hour day. In response to the workers’ movement, the robber barons called out the police to beat and shoot striking workers. Then the big capitalists jailed the leaders, union organizers and revolutionaries, hanging four of them. It caused a worldwide outrage. The labor movement went on to win the eight-hour day and other workplace rights.

In many countries, we will see angry protests against government cutbacks to social services, education, health care and housing. Many of the cutbacks in other countries are imposed by the U.S. through the International Monetary Fund or World Bank. These entities demand deep spending cuts to pro-people programs, as well as the purchase of U.S. weapons. If countries don’t accept the U.S. loans, or are late to pay, then the U.S. military will show up to enforce the deal. Workers and oppressed peoples of the world have a common enemy in Wall Street.

Trump wants real news; so, let’s give it to him this May Day. Let’s get out and organize broadly, build movements that link the struggles together, and fight back against the Trump agenda. With each of Trump’s attacks, we gain momentum and resistance grows. The movements are rising and we are planning to meet every attack and defeat Trump’s backward, anti-people actions.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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The Moment Has Come


Reform Immigration FOR America


Take action:

The movement is ready! After months of preparation to make the largest showing of resistance to the Trump agenda yet, on May 1st, our movement and its allies will host more than 250 events in 200 cities. Are you ready to Rise Up?

Find an event near you right now! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2856/167a7536/1f29cfbc/4db1e19d/3589336181/VEsE/)


Chris,

Trump's agenda will tear apart immigrant and refugee families, but he will only succeed if we let him. This fight will determine the future of all our communities. That's why we're making May 1st a moment for all progressive allies. While causes like health care, worker's rights, education and immigrant rights have always been intertwined, now more than ever we need to work together to resist the Trump agenda that is pushing communities into the shadows.

Members from organizations such as MoveOn.org, ACLU, AFT, Planned Parenthood and many more are joining marches across the nation because unjust and harsh enforcement is not only an attack on immigrants, it's an attack on all of us. Join us at a march or event in your community! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2856/167a7536/1f29cfbc/4db1e19d/3589336181/VEsF/)

Since the inauguration, our communities have come together like never before. You've seen it all over the news -- key moments this year like the Women's March, the airport protests, and the March for Science this past weekend -- have brought together people from all over the country in the fight for justice. With your support, this May 1st will be no different! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2856/167a7536/1f29cfbc/4db1e19d/3589336181/VEsC/)

We will win as long as we rise up together. See you in the streets on May 1st!

Donna De La Cruz
Reform Immigration FOR America

PS: From those who cook the food we eat to those who build the businesses of the future, all are affected by the Trump Administration's attack on immigrants. So, don't forget to invite your friends and family to Rise Up on May 1st! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2856/167a7536/1f29cfbc/4db1e19e/3589336181/VEsD/)


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URGENT: ICE wants to deport my father next week


My father has lived here for 30 years, but ICE wants to deport him next week.

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Will you sign our petition calling on ICE not to separate our family?

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Dear Chris,

ICE has ordered my father, Martin Martinez, to check in next week on Wednesday, May 3rd and bring a one-way ticket to Mexico.

My father has been living in this country for more than 30 years with my mother, Julia Ochoa. They raised my brother and I here in New York, and they have a new 3-month-old granddaughter, Olivia Grace.

ICE can use its discretion and decide not to separate our family – they did it once before, after members of the community joined my family in speaking out.

Can you sign our petition asking ICE to stop my father’s deportation – and ask your friends and family to do the same? (https://act.presente.org/go/2403?t=3&akid=1596.523110.PdLWrd)

My parents applied for asylum in 2004, but were denied, despite the fact that my brother and I were still children. The judge determined that we couldn't prove deporting my father would cause "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" for my brother and I, even though we were just 10 and 15 years old at the time. The judge told my parents that they would get a letter providing a date for them to leave the country, but it never came, so they continued to work, pay taxes, and raise my brother and I.

My parents are not a danger to the public. Julia has no criminal record. Martin has two DWI charges from nearly two decades ago but has learned from his mistakes and has not been pulled over since.

My parents were detained in 2013,1 but ICE decided against deporting them after hearing from my family, community members, and leaders.2 Will you join us speaking out again now?

Please join my family in calling on ICE to allow my father to stay with his family in the country he has called home for 30 years. (https://act.presente.org/go/2403?t=4&akid=1596.523110.PdLWrd)

Sincerely,

Maria Martinez

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Sources:
1. "Teen fights to get parents out of immigration detention." Daily News. April 18, 2013.
2. "Teen wins fight to free parents from detention." Daily News. May 1, 2013.


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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/28/sanc-a28.html


California judge issues injunction against executive order to defund sanctuary cities

By Shelley Connor

28 April 2017

On Tuesday, Judge William H. Orrick, a United States District Court Judge in San Francisco, temporarily blocked an executive order that would strip so-called “sanctuary cities” of federal funding. Although Santa Clara County and the City of San Francisco filed the complaint, Judge Orrick’s injunction applies to the entire nation.

In his decision, Judge Orrick wrote that Trump had overstepped his executive authority by threatening to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding from municipalities and counties should they refuse to enforce immigration law in tandem with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Orrick noted that federal spending is the purview of Congress, not the executive branch; as such, the executive order represented an overreach by the president.

San Francisco estimated a loss of more than $1 billion in federal funding should the executive order be enforced. Santa Clara County estimated that it would lose about a third of its revenue—about $1.7 billion. Justice Department attorneys scoffed at these claims, stating that the only funds that would be withheld would be those specifically mentioned in the executive order, grants from the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, not every federal department.

In his decision, however, Judge Orrick noted several public statements made by Trump and his administration that intimated more sweeping cuts. He alluded to Trump’s statements to Fox News in February, in which he characterized sanctuary cities as criminal hotbeds, and specifically mentioned San Francisco and the state of California: “If we have to, we’ll defund. We give tremendous amounts of money to California—California in many ways is out of control, as you know.”

Trump and key members of his administration have since made similar threats in the press. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly toured southwestern border states just last week, doubling down on Trump’s characterization of sanctuary cities and on threats of defunding.

Orrick wrote in his decision that the Justice Department’s approach was “schizophrenic,” stating that the administration’s own public statements had led the counties to “reasonably fear enforcement of the order.” “If there was doubt about the scope of the order, the president and attorney general have erased it with their public comments,” he wrote.

This is not the first time that Trump’s public statements have figured into the courts’ decisions about the scope of an executive order. In February, Judge Leonie Brinkema, a US District Court Judge in Alexandria, Virginia, cited Trump’s statements from his campaign and press interviews to issue an injunction against the enforcement of his executive order banning travel from six Muslim countries.

“The president himself acknowledged the conceptual link between a Muslim ban and the EO (executive order),” Brinkema wrote in her decision, responding to the Justice Department’s claims that the order was religiously neutral. The executive order, she claimed, was a gross overstep of executive power. Not only did the order arrogate the legislative branch’s power, Brinkema wrote; it also violated First and Fifth Amendment guarantees of religious freedom and due process. At their core, the judge’s ruling hinged, not upon the literal interpretation of the executive order itself, but upon the president’s own statements.

Federal Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii likewise cited Trump’s own language in his decision to issue an injunction against the second version of the so-called “Muslim ban.” He wrote, "A reasonable, objective observer—enlightened by the specific historical context, contemporaneous public statements, and specific sequence of events leading to its issuance would conclude that the Executive Order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion.”

In his decision, Judge Orrick invoked the Tenth Amendment, citing National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not withhold Medicaid funding to induce states to expand Medicaid coverage under Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The judge, a Democrat appointed by Obama, thus turned the argument that states should not be compelled to enforce federal statutes against a Republican president.

There is no agreed-upon definition of a “sanctuary city.” The vagueness in this designation gives the Trump administration wide latitude to arbitrarily enforce the order in retaliation against opposition to its anti-immigrant dragnet. For Santa Clara County and the city of San Francisco, of particular concern were demands that local police question people about their immigration status. In addition, Trump and his administration have demanded, repeatedly, that localities detain unauthorized immigrants after courts have released them from detention—such as when they’ve completed their sentence or have been acquitted—until ICE could take them into custody.

The city of San Francisco claimed that this violated the Constitution by commandeering the municipality’s resources to enforce federal law. This forced cooperation, city attorneys argued, would endanger public safety by making unauthorized immigrants reticent to report violent crimes and serve as witnesses in criminal cases. San Francisco was the first city to sue the administration over the executive order; several cities, including Richmond, California and Seattle, Washington have followed suit.

Predictably, Trump met the news of Orrick’s injunction with disdain for the judicial system. He accused political opponents of “judge shopping,” although the court in question was the appropriate court for San Francisco and Santa Clara County. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus referred to the decision as another instance of “the 9th Circuit going bananas,” although Judge Orrick does not sit on the 9th Circuit but on a lower court within that circuit.

The Justice Department responded that it would continue its vendetta against sanctuary cities, saying in a press release, “the Department will continue to enforce existing grant conditions and will continue to enforce” the executive order.

While the injunction represents a setback for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, the US legal system as a whole is stacked against immigrants and against democratic rights. Appeals of court rulings against Trump’s executive orders will wend their way through the courts, culminating in action by the US Supreme Court, where the administration is likely to find a more sympathetic hearing for its authoritarian views.

No section of the American ruling elite, Democrat or Republican, can be relied on to defend democratic rights. That task falls to the working class, which must oppose divisive, chauvinist attacks on foreign-born workers, emanating from both parties and all the institutions of the capitalist state.

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A Love Supreme


Send love and support to mamas who are under attack.

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Write a card to Muslim and immigrant mamas and it will be translated, printed, and delivered in time for Mamas Day!

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Dear Chris,

Mama's Day can be a difficult time for those who are not able to be with loved ones. On this Mama's Day, you can expand much-needed compassion, love, and resilience through supporting mamas and connecting communities.

Write a message to an immigrant or Muslim mama now, and we’ll deliver it by Mamas Day. (https://act.presente.org/go/2412?t=3&akid=1597.523110.TTr4tC)

Renata immigrated to the U.S. so she could finally be herself. As a queer woman from Brazil, she faced rejection and homophobia on a daily basis. After migrating to the U.S., she found community with other LGBTQ people and immigrants, building a family of choice that now includes her partner, their daughter, and their dog.
The racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic attacks of the Trump Administration aren’t new to Renata—but after fleeing hatred, it’s heartbreaking to face it here in the U.S.

Send your card by May 1, and our partners at Forward Together will translate, print, and help deliver it to a mama. (https://act.presente.org/go/2412?t=5&akid=1597.523110.TTr4tC)

This Mamas Day, so many mamas like Renata are feeling fearful and uncertain. You can remind these mamas that you see them, you love them, and you’re resisting alongside them by writing a Mamas Day card to an immigrant or Muslim mama.

Renata’s not giving into fear. She knows our communities—queer, immigrant, Muslim, people connected by blood and those bonded by affinity—are resilient. Fierce. Loving. We have experienced these attacks before. Now, more than ever, we are ready to resist them and continue transforming the world into a radically inclusive place. And that gives her hope.

Make sure immigrant and Muslim mamas know you see them, you support them, and you love them: Make your card and we'll send it to a mama who needs it. (https://act.presente.org/go/2412?t=6&akid=1597.523110.TTr4tC)

Last year, Presente partnered with Forward Together and Culture Strike to deliver cards to Mamas in detention. This year, we’re expanding the campaign to include Muslim mamas and immigrant Mamas because Mamas Day is about taking care of all of our communities. It’s our connections that make us strong, resilient, and beautiful and right now, some of the most vulnerable mamas among us need us to show up for them.

Our goal is to distribute thousands of cards to individuals as a tangible message of love in the face of many, many hateful, xenophobic, and Islamophobic attacks. There’s no better time to remind the mamas we know and the mamas we’ll never meet that we see them and we love them.

Make your card now and we’ll make sure it gets to a Muslim or immigrant mama in time for Mamas Day! (https://act.presente.org/go/2412?t=7&akid=1597.523110.TTr4tC)

Thank you for all you do and ¡adelante!

– Matt, Favianna, Erick, Reetu, Oscar, Erica and the Presente.org team.

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Take Action: Ask Rep. Pelosi to Champion Yazmin's Case!



Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)


Hey Chris,

Did you know as of today Yazmin will have been detained by ICE 100 times longer than she ever spent in jail for her DUI charge?! We have always known ICE uses detention as just another way to break the spirit of our community. Little do they know just how strong Yazmin is, and how committed all of you are in helping get her home.

In the next 10 days we are going to be organizing a series of community actions, and events, not only here in California, but across the United States. These events are going to bring to light the injustices faced by so many in Yazmin’s situation. Right now we are focusing all of our energy on getting Rep. Pelosi to support Yazmin, especially in light of her fierce advocacy to stand up to Trump, and his direct attack on women just like Yazmin.

Sign the Petition: Ask Rep. Pelosi to Stand up to President Trump and Support Yazmin! (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WDhbfVvKe9GJgzH6GKhvtLmBGNGLcrqK)

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The time is ripe for the Trump administration to release Yazmin. ICE claims they are detaining Yazmin because of her 3 prior DUIs, while completely disregarding the fact that Yazmin’s DUIs are a direct result of more than 20 years of domestic violence and trauma which she has since treated as part of a program designed specifically for victims of violence.

We really need your help to convey the urgency of this case to Rep. Pelosi, and to get her to stand on the right side of history. Can you take action right now by signing this petition calling on Rep. Pelosi to stand up for Yazmin? (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nw8bngBka7gp5Rf3JeCRUrmBGNGLcrqK)

On April 20th District Court Judge Orrick (the same judge that stopped Trump’s recent attack on sanctuary cities) ruled in Yazmin’s case, “[i]t violates due process to keep someone in immigration detention for more than a year on the basis of dangerousness where the overriding reason is that a non-violent crime was committed as a result of that person’s addiction and the individual has a viable plan for rehabilitation and compliance with pertinent conditions of release.”

The writing's on the wall, it’s time for Rep. Pelosi to take a stand (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3PASoMSD52VFHLgepVagA7mBGNGLcrqK) and call for the release of Yazmin, instead of allowing ICE to further criminalize her.

Thank you for your continued support and action.

Sincerely,

Blanca
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East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition

P.S. Our goal is to get 300 signatures today, can you help us spread the word by sharing this petition (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mDbiIuAU8PI1%2BTUT3uHmXbmBGNGLcrqK) with just one friend?
If you are in the bay support Yasmin’s Days of Action!

Wednesday, May 3rd - West County Detention Center Rally
10:00AM
5555 Giant Hwy, Richmond, CA 94806

Monday, May 8th - Rally Against Domestic Violence
11:00AM
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Wednesday, May 10th- National Mother's Day Action to #FreeYazmin (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YdFPlH0Sl247OHSg%2F3iQ5bmBGNGLcrqK)
11:00AM
location TBA

Thursday, May 11th- #FreeYazmin Press Conference & Pack the Courtroom
8:30AM
ICE Building 630 Sansome St. San Francisco, Ca
Follow East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition for more details

Thank you for your continued support and action.

Sincerely,

Blanca
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East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition

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Let’s End the Muslim Ban Once and For All


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Dear Chris,

This week, the Trump administration is back in court, fighting to keep its bigoted Muslim and refugee ban alive.

It seems as though Trump won’t stop fighting to advance his agenda. But neither will we! We won’t stop until the Muslim Ban has been stopped permanently.

Are you with us? Add your name to say: No Muslim Ban Ever. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=922705&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

This week, we are proud to join a national week of resistance. Together with partners across the country, we’re sending a loud and clear message: No Muslim ban ever!

President Trump can keep trying to ban Muslims and refugees, but we will continue to fight back. We won’t let him write xenophobia into our history.

Trump’s first attempt at a Muslim ban failed because Amnesty activists like you stood up to stop it. Now, we must take action once more.

Tell Congress: Stand Up to Trump’s Muslim and Refugee Ban. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=922705&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Make sure your member of Congress knows you oppose this order. Tell them to demand Trump back down, stop fighting in the courts, and abandon this administration’s discriminatory agenda.

Together we can get President Trump to back down, get on the right side of the law, and respect human rights.

Thank you for taking action,

Margaret Huang
Executive Director, Amnesty International USA

PS: To find out more, including how to get involved locally, go to: https://nobannowallnoraids.wordpress.com/action/nomuslimbanever/

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/11/hait-m11.html


Trump administration threatens to deport tens of thousands of Haitian refugees

By John Marion

11 May 2017

Using a mixture of claims that conditions in Haiti have improved and a witch hunt for “criminal aliens,” the Trump administration is pushing to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 50,000 Haitian refugees living in the US.

Temporary Protected Status for qualified Haitians in the United States—granted after the 2010 earthquake—will expire on July 22. The Department of Homeland Security must decide and publish in the Federal Register at least 60 days before expiration whether it will extend the status for Haitians. Acting U.S. Customs and Immigration Services Director James McCament is seeking to shut down the program.

Emails obtained and summarized by the Associated Press show that Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, the new head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office of Policy and Strategy, has been pressuring staff—at the request of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly—to dig for information on crimes or welfare “abuse” committed by Haitians covered by TPS.

Kovarik wrote to her staff that “I know some of it is not captured, but we’ll have to figure out a way to squeeze more data out of our systems.” Given the record to date of the Trump administration and the wording of Kovarik’s email, it is likely that DHS will manufacture data to meet its needs if none is found.

In an April 28 email Kovarik wrote that “we should should also find any reports of criminal activity by any individual with TPS.”

Looking for ways to hide the cruelty of deporting tens of thousands of people to one of the poorest countries in the world, Kovarik requested that her staff “please dig for any stories (successful or otherwise) that would show how things are in Haiti … we need more than ‘Haiti is really poor’ stories.”

Temporary Protected Status, by law, stipulates only that an immigrant can live and work in the United States. It does not provide welfare, SNAP benefits, or other government aid. Nonetheless, the Trump administration is preparing to use allegations of welfare fraud as a pretext for planned deportations.

TPS does not lead to non-immigrant status, but also does not restrict a beneficiary from applying for that status. The total number of Haitian beneficiaries since the earthquake has been 58,700.

Kovarik’s emails are part of deportation plans which are being formalized. An April 10 letter from McCarment to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly recommended that the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians be extended six months from July 22 of this year to January 23 to “allow … for a period of orderly transition.” People who have been living, working, and raising children in the United States for years would have only six months to prepare for deportation. While McCament wrote that six months would give Haitians time to “prepare for their departure,” he made no mention of the conditions in the detention centers through which this “departure” will occur.

McCament is a career official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, having served under George W. Bush and Barack Obama before Trump’s election. His USCIS biography calls him “a founding member of DHS” who served as a special advisor to Homeland Security Secretaries Ridge and Chertoff.

Facts and statistics cited in McCament’s letter demonstrate both the arrogance of the Trump administration and the perverse logic of using of further calamities that have struck Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake as a formal pretext for not extending TPS. Because Haiti’s misery doesn’t stem only from the earthquake, McCament argues, deportations should proceed.

The letter states that “in September 2016, an estimated 3.2 million people (approximately 30 percent of the population) suffered from food insecurity. However … Haiti has historic food security challenges, and … currently, Haiti’s food insecurity problems seem related to tropical storms in 2012 and a drought rather than from lingering effects of the 2010 earthquake.”

Similarly, “since October 2010, close to 800,000 Haitians have contracted cholera, and nearly 10,000 people have died from the disease… Nevertheless, Haiti faces longstanding public health challenges, where 40 percent of the population lacked access to basic health services before the 2010 earthquake.”

In September 2016 the Obama administration announced that it would begin deporting thousands of Haitians who had entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole after traveling from as far away as Brazil through Mexico. McCament’s letter cites and builds on that decision: “Haitian nationals may safely return to Haiti as evidenced by DHS’s decision to resume removals to Haiti in 2016.”

McCament’s letter cites a 2015 growth rate of 2 percent in Haiti’s economy. It doesn’t mention that inflation has risen to 14 percent, or that, as of March, 1.4 million of the people affected by Hurricane Matthew still didn’t have enough food or safe drinking water. A May 2 letter from the Congressional Black Caucus to Homeland Security Secretary Kelly argues that food shortages caused by the storm have contributed to inflation throughout Haiti.

On April 27, citing parliamentary delegate Max Serge Daniel, Haiti Libre reported that five days of rain had severely affected areas in the south of Haiti that have yet to recover from the hurricane. Fishing, livestock, and as much as 80 percent of the spring harvest suffered from flooding that damaged 10,000 homes and affected 350,000 people in the Sud Departement.

McCament’s letter is silent on the benefits to the U.S. economy of immigrant workers. An April report by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on upcoming Temporary Protected Status renewals estimated that the 300,000 Salvadorans, Hondurans, and Haitians currently in the country on TPS would add $45.2 billion to the U.S. economy in a decade. Workers on TPS contribute to Social Security and Medicare through payroll taxes, and would effectively be robbed of this money when deported.

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5/12 National Call-in Day: STOP THE RACIST ATTACK ON BISHOP T AND HIS CHURCH


5/12 National Call-in: Save Bishop T's Church*Call Mayor Carpenter 508-580-7123

link to facebook event page:

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Stop the attacks on Bishop T and his church, SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE AMERICAS!

Bishop Filipe Teixeira has been on the front lines of battles for justice in Brockton, Boston, and throughout the region and the country. He has marched shoulder to shoulder with people’s movements fighting against racism, police brutality, sexism, anti-Muslim and anti LGBTQ bigotry. He has fought tirelessly for the rights of Immigrants, workers and unions, people with disabilities, for fully funded public education. He has been a stanch defender of the Black and Brown communities. His militant outspoken advocacy has earned him the hatred of oppressors and exploiters from Brockton to Boston to Washington DC. Bishop T, and his congregation need our solidarity in action NOW!

Statement of Bishop T; “On April 19, 2017, after a nearly decade long legal battle, Brockton Housing court ORDERED the demolition of our religious sanctuary within sixty days for the false politically motivated racist charge of failure to meet the building code/permit and safety issues. Brockton is seeking to silence an out spoken Religious leader by closing theParish/Church, a well-known self-declared sanctuary congregation that is a pillar of support to Brockton’s Immigrant community. This is a clear violation of freedom of speech, assembly and worship. We have been fighting this injustice for over 20 years. This is the second time that the Brockton establishment has made our congregation “homeless”. When we were unjustly evicted from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 2006 for the “crime” of feeding the poor, our congregation with solidarity from our supporters build our current church. We have been battling in Brockton court since then, represented by our wonderful Peoples lawyer, John Pavlos. John is now exploring all legal tactics. It was the people that built our church, we have faith that it will be the people, our congregation with solidarity from all of our supporters who will defend our church now! We call on all of you to join our just struggle to Save our Church! We will be waging a multifaceted campaign. Stay tuned. For now, please call Mayor Bill Carpenter to demand he STOP the demolition of our church! PHONE: (508) 580-7123 EMAIL: [email protected] Brockton City Hall 45 School Street Brockton, Mass. 0230”

Bishop T has demonstrated his concrete solidarity with all the peoples struggles and movements, It's time for the movement to demonstrate Solidarity in Action for him and his church. An Injury to One is an Injury to all!

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Hundreds of US citizens arrested in joint immigration-police roundup

By Niles Niemuth

13 May 2017

While the Democratic Party and mainstream media obsess over allegations of Russian hacking of the 2016 election, the Trump administration is implementing its ruthless war on immigrants with little public notice and no significant opposition.

Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), working with a host of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, concluded a six-week operation last weekend in which they arrested 1,378 people, of whom 993 were US citizens. Major raids were carried out in Houston, New York City, Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey.

Although agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations do not have the legal authority to arrest US citizens, the operation was overseen by the Homeland Security Investigations Unit, which claims much broader authority to enforce federal laws.

Gang activity in the United States, including drug and sex trafficking, has been used as a justification for the broad expansion of the powers of ICE agents over the last decade, bloating the size of the police apparatus responsible for arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants.

The arrests were part of ICE’s Operation Community Shield, raids coordinated with state and local law enforcement agencies initiated during the administration of Republican president George W. Bush in 2005 and continued under Democratic president Barack Obama. In 2016, Obama’s last year in office, ICE agents arrested more than 1,100 people, mostly US citizens, on suspicion of gang activity.

Many of those targeted in the raids have been identified as “gang members” or “gang affiliates” without any due process. ICE determines that someone they have arrested is a gang member or affiliate if they have a prior conviction for gang related activity, declare themselves to be a member of a gang, have tattoos which ICE declares to be gang related, or are fingered as a gang member by a “reliable source.”

ICE claimed that 1,095 of those arrested were confirmed as members or affiliates of a number of transnational gangs including the Bloods (137), the Sureños (118), the Crips (104) and MS-13 (104).

The Bloods and Crips are predominantly African-American gangs which have their roots in the impoverished working class neighborhoods of Los Angeles. MS-13, which also has its origins in Los Angeles, developed as a result of the wars stoked by US imperialism in El Salvador from 1979 to 1992, which devastated the small country and caused massive human flight, particularly to Southern California.

Among the 280 immigrants arrested in this latest round up, three had been granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program implemented in 2012. Ten of those arrested had crossed the border into the United States as unaccompanied minors.

President Donald Trump has scapegoated immigrants for the United States’ social and economic problems, painting Mexican immigrants in particular as criminals, drug traffickers and rapists. He kicked off his campaign for the presidency in 2015 by calling for a crackdown on immigrants and the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump’s administration, with retired general John Kelly as the director of the Department of Homeland Security, has initiated a raft of measures targeting immigrants.

Trump signed executive orders in January calling for the construction of the wall and expedited arrests and deportations, measures that could ultimately directly impact the lives of tens of millions of people living in the United States. The administration’s effort to implement a ban on travelers and immigrants from a number of Muslim-majority countries has so far been blocked by the courts.

ICE has carried out widespread roundups, arresting people in their homes, as they drop their children off at school, while they apply for legal status, and during once-routine check-ins with federal authorities. DACA is being targeted so that thousands of people who were brought to the US as children can be deported.

In an echo of the Nazi press, which published the pictures of Jewish criminal defendants to whip up anti-Semitism, ICE has established the Office of Victims of Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens [VOICE] in order to publicly denounce immigrants accused of crimes. The anti-gang and immigrant round-up is intended to bolster the administration’s false claims that immigrants are largely “criminals,” as the president said in 2016. In fact, immigrants have a lower crime commission rate than US citizens.

Trump’s xenophobic initiatives have emboldened the most reactionary, fascistic elements of American society.

Republican Oklahoma state representative Mike Ritze and the 21 other members of the Republican Platform Caucus recently proposed rounding up the state’s 82,000 non-English speaking students and turning them over to ICE as a “cost-cutting measure.” While states cannot legally deny an education to a child based on their immigration status, they could save money by having all those without proper papers deported.

“Identify them and then turn them over to ICE to see if they truly are citizens, and do we really have to educate non-citizens?” Ritze asked, claiming that tearing children out of school and away from their families would have the benefit of saving the state of Oklahoma $60 million.

If the Democrats have nothing critical to say about all of this, it is because they fully supported a slew of federal laws making it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal status in the United States. Trump has cited these laws, passed with bipartisan support, in his reactionary executive orders.

Under Obama, just under 3 million people were officially deported, more than under any other president in US history. Most Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have voted for greater legal restrictions on immigration. Clinton, as well as Senator Charles Schumer and former Senators Obama and Biden, voted to construct more barriers and fencing along the southern border with Mexico.

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Emergency protest and call-in campaign against ICE detaining immigrants in Saint Paul (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=d3ba5bd45a&e=d323598fe4)

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Saint Paul, MN - On May 11 at 8:18 a.m., a video was posted publicly on Facebook which shows a brief clip of plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorizing a local family in St. Paul when, according to witness accounts, their unmarked car swerved in front of a vehicle with four Latino men and stopped and detained them. A man from El Salvador and a man from Honduras were detained. Family members arrived on scene but could not get answers from ICE agents about who they were or why the men were being detained - instead they were shouted at and one of the detained men's wife had a gun pointed at her. Neither man had any criminal conviction.

In response, the MIRAC (Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee) No More Deportations Campaign together with several allied organizations called an emergency response protest, sending a text blast asking people to protest the same day at 4:00 pm at the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE operations are housed. On about an hour’s notice, more than 25 people came to the Federal Building to protest, joining together with family members of one of the men who had been detained, holding signs saying “no more deportations!”

A call-in campaign to ICE has been initiated, demanding the release of the two men detained in the incident on the east side of Saint Paul, as well as another local man who was also detained in a separate case. Details on the call-in campaign are here.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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URGENT: Stop Trump from deporting 50,000 Haitians


Add your name: Tell President Trump to renew TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians by May 23rd to stop 50,000 working people from facing immediate deportation to a country still recovering from natural disasters. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/0wA/ni0YAA/t.27c/_fS1cnP9RqWaaiRQUDiEZw/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3BxDAFeKJBfyFNBUWui7R8ivPsiwmp1dtgSoG b9yYm4tlA-2FMP168xVIoPQjLYQdA7-2BjCyhbAcBoiAUnM-2F6mzJkdGLl0ZUqttcW4Q3TmNWCW6z8kWtdMqxmYHPfHxYP0xN ZruiWweIX8Wttg7-2FbgOHjTRfkTYlv7q61dLINs7dagiPyq5jarSWm3GKt1wT2gpV QVA4AYiajOOnbezkR6I8ETIzhmuQ3bqQuCSlfsUiGJ4BCIxS4x zoXX2-2FwZlH2PVtx-2BlGExMLQks1nBdc2yFhf6V1PcGcfSZeRquK-2FF2TEUPZMeEhmRiLr7ovsbXAvHTbj8Rb5Ur4b2HVAu-2FQslGO3LviAU-2FkImjqsL4zblX52fSV8fAMoVNF0KNNqp6HG5aTQ-3D)


Dear Chris Kaihatsu:


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My name is Gerdine Vessagne, and I am a housekeeper at the Fontainebleau Resort on Miami Beach. I am a proud union woman, and I love my job.

I was born in Haiti, country that’s seen its fair share of devastation. But I’ve been living and working in the U.S. for eight and a half years because of something called “Temporary Protected Status,” or, TPS.

TPS has allowed me to provide for my five children, including two back home, and three born here. But this isn’t just about me.

Over 50,000 Haitian nationals working in the U.S. have TPS. And this protected status will expire if Donald Trump doesn’t renew it by May 23 - so we need to push him to stop that from happening (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/0wA/ni0YAA/t.27c/_fS1cnP9RqWaaiRQUDiEZw/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3BxDAFeKJBfyFNBUWui7R8ivPsiwmp1dtgSoG b9yYm4tlA-2FMP168xVIoPQjLYQdA79mN1PPys9Z3ElmRwqmpX0c8l0CdGuk Yphoy4JXC3ED6NTx22eViUHOv-2BKw6ax8JewPpdPB9lBDpl20RPuPJSfZ-2FMkVUaIWiP2ibxDxYQman2jbIHF9UEbWagFsVSxls6Usj9tdS xUKcWRuDOwLzK9HQsRoJLB3-2Bw-2BY-2BOIsddxO-2BqIiQsBMGoRUwIzl5BwH-2FQgDRojG3w7sWsicIFEkDamWRiF5-2Ff-2FKQMg1WdlpC-2BQX0br4bgIlPpLNQ2pOf08AlCeBJMTfuyp7uvZlhAo2N3Y3eZ clrDEx-2BwQi3H8FLZiYvtwMH-2F9rMcAUTVDtNnhSWQA-3D).

If Donald Trump does not extend TPS for Haitians (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/0wA/ni0YAA/t.27c/_fS1cnP9RqWaaiRQUDiEZw/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3BxDAFeKJBfyFNBUWui7R8ivPsiwmp1dtgSoG b9yYm4tlA-2FMP168xVIoPQjLYQdA782QWEvy377ou8BgL4JqFkwNAVsfO1J vm9EvB0tSSNiB7FbPSsAqldRFrnGpzasFIAyTZ0Y5my1ePifxm FNxtL1JtQGZFhE-2FVzNPNF8MfPIjrjgxYUj3mGs7jVQdfl9-2Bi-2FroKOam0UZRySoVDOoahyUiOTTCQRU-2FXXhSy29pyIN-2FUjNmXE0wAU73LWwFdGIthdu2QpQAIgPQ5GG4CKQJcg5p4Qo8 EXD-2B2SLV-2By0EMYJte9c2jpCD-2FssXOsXqnbyhB83Nmd8pMRvuqapnGSQeoi91YgqNdePSNjBno AABrmahD3miDLkpREO9vCdXr7V5MU-3D) by May 23rd, then 50,000 of us face an impossible choice -- return to a country still recovering from national disaster or lose our jobs and be forced to live in the shadows as undocumented immigrants.

We are the engine of Florida’s hospitality industry, much of which greatly depends on our labor. Please add your name to a petition calling on Trump to renew TPS for thousands of hardworking, taxpaying Haitian immigrants proudly serving Florida and beyond for years. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/0wA/ni0YAA/t.27c/_fS1cnP9RqWaaiRQUDiEZw/h4/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3BxDAFeKJBfyFNBUWui7R8ivPsiwmp1dtgSoG b9yYm4tlA-2FMP168xVIoPQjLYQdA7-2B8T2oA9MdOleVrcntCwehoZK3O2s2YRApzTjPBBJZzRz9iIpu q4sT3mkPncjWdAcFFtp1f6UhXzIhCCNxxr8wdYgDuTu5zW9rIr 5EY8z1WxAm-2FvgJvLAP34WcuWGOElS0hrJDEWSNc7z8RXGm1CFJJvMLb-2BCC7gUhHV8ot-2BGnUB-2B53pJYcgzAnv-2FcZFC6kApMqSX-2B7ZPQwUi-2FLvp1lebjnLenvR4qRFR7cavKN7tOGP0BSiVF4CsJtsD1M7ck BmoWRZH94f4g3qUuHSwXqpmx7r0fiWWhfqZCJdsn-2FdGm03ZeFc6sSrphiX-2BvRtjBoE4c-3D)


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Take action with the moms who lead our movement // Toma acción con las mamas que lideran nuestro movimiento


We Belong Together


***Abajo en Español***

"This Mother’s Day was a special day for me. After almost 3 months, I was able to go home to my children and my grandchildren - this fight is for them. But while I celebrated, my friend Ingrid couldn’t go home. My struggle is not over and, over the next two years, my energy will go towards fighting for her.” – Jeanette Vizguerra


Dear Chris Kaihatsu,

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Yesterday Jeanette Vizguerra celebrated Mother’s Day and her freedom. On Friday morning, she was finally able to walk out of the Denver church that has been her refuge for the past 86 days after being granted temporary relief from deportation.

Thanks to Jeanette’s courageous leadership and all of your support, Roberto, Luna, and Zury were able to spend Mother’s Day at home with their mom.

This is a victory for Jeanette’s entire community that stood with her against Trump’s deportation force. When we stand together we are stronger than hate.

And now Jeanette is standing up for her friend Ingrid. Click here to help Ingrid too (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27c/kaXsQcAQRp-oiMR3q4sncw/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3DBqfjDYnJy-2F8M7oM3KFE-2F7xgEshcsHGJ6wUXGkFMcXx3GQlpSYJ7IpRHqpiMVzwesB2SV KaJRnrhssyKRFR29z6Zws-2FI5NVuQPZuDzmtSXSNgYxRf7pDgIdMx5b2EwFbf5ohNs3jp-2FuDaKSOGKsTnpqzQs2Uzv9WvZ99iFsW-2FxIGGDTIUXGUWwov0QE9slfLYX0xOrrAVTlRdenvwQOVL2vXK K6WoTryYCE83yGhRxNR4OVsCLJH6Wqvn-2FUz38u-2B5nTDYcjHZ8AFDes1iffNPmkZyWBqe8Den56i-2B2Cwco-2FkBf7KV7-2F2Ozs6PcFSzNxRjEZ7Ewi-2B0pFtZPmpypJy7E0bQNZpB83amGf2yFLZL3eZkjDKOXUXrHsa krk2z0wTE8BM2vIJC6teASW6NxDX9ELWVB6Bp3keA-2FtzeR8rSMRgSb7Nm9P8pIeTZCtyxkBg8cmmHXlnVaTF30anOo RFxpo-2BMSGLci7ixxwCdP77QBug-3D-3D)

Ingrid Encalada Latorre has called the United States home for half of her 33 years. She lives in Colorado with her two US citizen children, Bryant who is 8 years old and Anibal who is one year old. Last November, Ingrid sought sanctuary in a church in Denver, fearing that she would be deported and separated from her young children.

Join Jeanette in demanding that ICE grant Ingrid relief from deportation so she can pursue her case and care for her sons. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27c/kaXsQcAQRp-oiMR3q4sncw/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3DBqfjDYnJy-2F8M7oM3KFE-2F7xgEshcsHGJ6wUXGkFMcXxwcv0Cj8u1RuUd1UkAr0eFEKP55 4MoQiHgSiXfjRfa-2FyEZrbbd4CdBpfCh2vUM4NocPIPOyRKcQrH966osL2xH5r9nT IHRA184-2B8xa9aNlaMxKJ7tcADfnh67TU5lhyjADXlcc1QxOty2P2wXka LxkrpK5IT1IvYFCJVHJbWFzzuzaHzW-2BH9Zs-2F1V39RNfMo7lncYGcGrNkLHaTIPcsTIM5h3V-2Fi9Ie5UcQBJRN6lg4Y-2F-2B7pHtzZPyyQMQN406u20mUr5A33zZiKmZIs4dIUz870O6R6Yh CydKuhQ4nohIH8WKeDxjxDLOxR-2BbjbHLURznikQEXG91jXl378tHSa4x7vdKsSUkCRu-2BKlT-2F2ltpjnGOu5ALXqW2RHr9n8BD56Dz7OgO2kYCKEwMTSJxNfmT fJQkjVnZ2GNm0Y74MFtLdzpcH18L62a6CvUSZs2VwJmg-3D-3D) Ingrid’s family and community need her home now.

Across the country, moms are standing up for their families and their communities - leading trainings, sharing information, telling their stories and marching - to protect their loved ones and their children’s futures.

On mother’s day and every day we celebrate the strength of moms like Jeanette, who are leading our movement, and we fight to bring Ingrid home next. Because #WeBelongTogether.

Thank you for taking action with Jeanette,

Anna, on behalf of the entire We Belong Together team


“Este Dia de la Madre fue muy especial para mí. Después de casi 3 meses, pude regresar a casa con mis hijos y nietos - esta lucha es para ellos. Pero mientras yo celebraba, mi amiga Ingrid aún no puede regresar a su casa. Mi lucha no ha terminado y en los próximos dos años usare mi energía luchando por ella.” – Jeanette Vizguerra


[email protected] Chris Kaihatsu,

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Ayer Jeanette Vizguerra celebró el Día de la Madre y también su libertad. El viernes finalmente logró salir de la iglesia en Denver que ha sido su refugio durante los últimos 86 días, después de haber recibido un alto temporal a su deportación.

Gracias a la valiente liderazgo de Jeanette y el apoyo tuyo, Roberto, Luna, y Zury pudieron celebrar el Dia de la Madre en casa con su mama.

Esta es una victoria para toda la comunidad de Jeanette, quienes lucharon a su lado en contra de la maquinaria de la deportación encabezada por Trump. Cuando nos unimos, somos más fuertes que el odio.

Ahora Jeanette está luchando por su amiga Ingrid. Haz clic aquí para unirte apoyando a Ingrid. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27c/kaXsQcAQRp-oiMR3q4sncw/h5/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3DBqfjDYnJy-2F8M7oM3KFE-2F7xgEshcsHGJ6wUXGkFMcXxyiDxuvJBn41s0H5xKd4-2BAlpRag6Jt3k1FJa9INVn8EjqdQ91AnCf0OVl7yJx-2BxJfXoUjMCcngO2rRvNiafCId2-2F1L5Ye9e303o5NM9ljqMqozEG37CwJtDDTTSdtLhWbK7L15TY CEb-2B7-2F4l9I-2Bf8yt5F8gL3ttoVuld24MmO0WRgsNqSFu-2Bb-2B-2FkYYK9Q1p7xCJCeXPzeB07dUPfugYOjfZXLVnvq-2FHC-2BAAzU-2FDhtKLpZ5-2Bsd4iL64tGqnl4msQfKeFZGCZ3r2ehEGw7sd-2Bx7mBjyWSsSxfPu2gu2imRcpmLvJvOqFK2VqPitQuaoNdqAHz aR4cF7zcVcUGmvNkY3RAmm2cfMvTGrr3Bg8fBeqpjlJbX2GgUO-2BTlVBlGTePivmIxrYzK4APoB-2FTWTBpfvi4ml3-2F4UJByLZwoa4ITXQSpL1H3v-2F8s8j4X6-2BrLzIaMIw-3D-3D)

Ingrid Encalada Latorre ha vivido en los Estados Unidos durante la mitad de sus 33 años. Vive en Colorado con sus dos hijos que son ciudadanos Estadounidenses, Bryant que tiene 8 años y Anibal que tiene un año. El noviembre pasado Ingrid se refugió en una iglesia en Denver, temiendo ser deportada y separada de sus hijos pequeños.

Únete con Jeanette exigiendo a ICE que paren la deportación de Ingrid para que ella pueda seguir peleando su caso y cuidar a sus hijos. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5AA/ni0YAA/t.27c/kaXsQcAQRp-oiMR3q4sncw/h6/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3DBqfjDYnJy-2F8M7oM3KFE-2F7xgEshcsHGJ6wUXGkFMcXx7q1qDb2316dK9Zvs3R5xfHCCm5 VM-2BlnMp0A230o2rVqTg7JI0ge8k0b3xYS7r7cTlfXciUAY48njc 73lNXhaTfsG6NXbbuvbCKJYmCVHeH4124tunKvGmHXftD0nT5G 0b-2FHA0vbcBI5scGRWmn9UBPUhWxnx5PrSISLS-2BjHk8Z0DAP0rpbpaZWNIAkEe0JctyZ3CKmudgKyyClcZW7Ahq RWoVPbHwf0a9eYWfCdvAr8BiYAre47S-2B69QH6T8mrdmA3kCF9NIPNhLYoL-2FT6cjh3XYLQK5LO0wUWifWdqnLHYyNRZG1jHzesNgXi-2Fy0kV03FYNx7PgLJ4aWG2HlDG-2FQjhSCJJ9onKC1a9Ad9S9KeSyzNWRsSoKX7pckve5hx-2Btg7EIV8H20ulShvIDneZZwSCrNQzEQVlakBUtG-2B0eb-2BW5-2FaNdXBZ-2BCo04w3MeTVdGQ-3D-3D) Su familia y su comunidad la necesitan en casa ahora.

Alrededor de todo el pais madres están luchando por sus familias y sus comunidades - dando capacitaciones, compartiendo informacion, contando sus historias y marchando - para proteger a sus seres queridos y los futuros de sus hijos.

Durante el Dia de la Madre y todos los días celebramos la fuerza de mamas como Jeanette, quienes están liderando nuestro movimiento, y luchamos para que Ingrid también pueda regresar a casa. Porque nos mantenemos unidas. #WeBelongTogether.

Gracias por tomar acción con Jeanette,

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I work at the Senate. I could be deported.


Dear Chris Kaihatsu,

My name is Ana Gomez, and I need your help.

When I was 14 years old, I fled violence in my home country of El Salvador to come to the United States, because I believed in the promise of America. And now, I’m a contract worker at the U.S. Capitol, serving food to Senators and their staffers every day.

I’m proud to serve our country and our lawmakers. I’m proud to be a working mom who is raising 3 beautiful girls. And I’m proud to be a DREAMer and a worker leader in the federal fight for $15 and a union.

As a DACA recipient and Good Jobs Nation activist, I am fighting to raise wages, not walls.
But as I told the Huffington Post, I live in fear of deportation by President Trump. [1]

I try to be brave, but activists like me are being targeted for speaking up. I’m the sole breadwinner for my sick husband and our young daughters, who are U.S. citizens. I’m afraid I could be deported, and they could have no one to take care of them.

So I have a request to ask you: Will you sign this petition, and say that you stand with me, and other activists who are speaking up? We should not be threatened because we are standing up and demanding our rights. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/6wA/ni0YAA/t.27c/LFpDDeO-QkuRFTrbl8swHA/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3AWJqAutuZZ0cDf-2BilS5pSOo-2B86ev3FE6ex7IwD9CEqANhJcCUrAoqYpaX-2BIyDFiTEVrH4vYiNtkbSmu23h35hO9MrSlxUY8-2Fv-2FBIzeJ3yZYEhbK2-2BKCUEK0Sm-2FdJmEkCuyUU6vLlFPoDROtFnArqxG-2Fd3jMrjU5TSJyAo7WTmQTWgAp2vhLJ3gaoqz2x6ImN10f8uJM 1jOQ4oxgyXMOqrvZY9iIJebZz6iGdEoJB3K9BrbgdxHofV2AQ3 akg2PyGIA4kkxehU2jSIlTGsaqcryXbn-2BO7oVHX4eBP70T2YcyUCqmvAaYALxQetMSkEzxZG1l6lYfYHr cXotFY7QJawz)

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I hope to never have to use this petition, but activists like me are being rounded-up. If I am threatened with deportation, I want to show that thousands of Americans like you are standing with me. And no matter what happens, I want to be able to tell my three beautiful daughters that they are loved, and valued, and that our family is welcome in America.

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Just two weeks ago, I told my story at a rally outside the US Capitol. I was proud to stand with Bernie Sanders and Keith Ellison as they announced that they will soon introduce legislation to raise the wage to $15 for all workers. Some people tell me I should keep my head down and be silent, but I’m committed to speaking out for immigrant workers.

Why? Because I know that when we fight, we win. Over the past 4 years, we’ve gone on strike over 20 times to help 20 million workers defend themselves from wage theft and win higher pay. And now we’re fighting to make sure working families like mine aren’t torn apart.

I’m frightened for the future, but I know that when we act together, the Good Jobs Nation community can make the American Dream real for every worker.

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Thank you for supporting me, my family, and the millions of other working DREAMers struggling to make America a Good Jobs Nation once again.

Saludos,
Ana

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[ckaihatsu]

Trump needs Caterpillar to build his wall


Trump wants heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar to help build his $21.6-billion symbol of hate, xenophobia and intolerance along the border with Mexico.

Caterpillar: Don't help build Trump's border wall!

SIGN THE PETITION (https://act.sumofus.org/go/352912?t=2&akid=30252.859590.8z1kXc)


Chris,

US President Donald Trump is about to take the next big step to make his 1,600-km (1,000-mile) concrete wall along the US-Mexican border a reality. And he wants Caterpillar Inc, one of the world's biggest construction equipment manufacturers, to help build it.

Most of the world already sees this wall for what it is: a racist waste of resources and an international symbol of hate. With a majority of Americans against Trump's wall, we think Caterpillar ought to reconsider the business opportunity.

Caterpillar CEO Douglas Oberhelman himself has talked about how important immigration is to the company’s own success. And with world leaders and ordinary people in every country that Caterpillar does business outraged at this atrocity, we have the opportunity to show Caterpillar it won’t be alone in making the right choice.

Tell Caterpillar, Deere, Raytheon and other construction companies: Don't help build Trump's wall. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/352912?t=3&akid=30252.859590.8z1kXc)

Any corporation with a shred of a commitment to human rights won’t stand for the Trump administration’s campaign to separate immigrant families, detain and deport children, and stoke the flames of xenophobia.

Caterpillar is seeing a rise in its stocks, which have climbed 16 percent since Trump’s election and his promises for infrastructure investment. It stands to rake in massive profits off the backs of migrant workers, refugees and cross-border families. That’s why it’s going to take all of us coming together to convince Caterpillar that being complicit in Trump’s massive human rights violations isn’t worth the short-term profits.

As the biggest manufacturer of construction equipment in America and one of the biggest anywhere, Caterpillar has the power to make a real statement by refusing to work on the wall. It’s up to us to call on Caterpillar to get on the right side of history and refuse to build a symbol of hate.

Call on Caterpillar and others to stand for human rights and refuse to participate in the construction of Trump's border wall. (https://act.sumofus.org/go/352912?t=4&akid=30252.859590.8z1kXc)

Thanks for all that you do,

Reem, Glen, Angus, and the team at SumOfUs



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[ckaihatsu]

Correction: Immigration agents target a fourth grader


We wrote you an email the other day that misstated a fact. I wish we were wrong about the fact that federal immigration agents attempted to question a fourth grader last week. That is correct. The fourth grader is safe and that event did happen. But it wasn't ICE agents who had attempted to question the fourth grader -- it was an officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. We apologize for misstating this, and a corrected version can be found below.

At United We Dream, we organize to give safety to all people. That means less policing in schools and in communities.

Trump's deportation forces are threatening our communities -- but we are fighting back. That is another fact.

Thank you for your support today

Sincerely,
Cristina Jimenez


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This is out of control, Chris Kaihatsu.

A federal immigration agent tried entering an elementary school to question a fourth grade student last week. A fourth grader. It's clear that Trump and his administration have no limit to the cruelty they will inflict on immigrants. Unjust deportations, illegal searches, and raids are forcing immigrants and people of color to live in fear in this country.

This is why we helped create local Deportation Defense Teams. From Las Cruces, New Mexico to Yonkers, New York, these teams provide rights trainings, legal resources, and support to the undocumented community. Our national group staffs the deportation defense hotline and provides additional resources to these local teams.

With ICE raids and deportations increasing under Trump, our small team has reached our capacity to keep up with the overwhelming demand for help. That’s where you come in.

Your donation today can help us expand our deportation defense teams to protect more of our immigrant community. Will you contribute $27 to United We Dream Action right now? (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1gA/ni0YAA/t.27g/Fg_xHK5UToWfND9pq3LJ5g/h1/aHO21LnX1DH2iKGsTPn3bSMm6il-2BDLmn8RZdtoMQC3-2FPXYxE2P5ORUqaPpc5eFLNZyUjjQ6Cj9dOZw6d0E92q17-2Ba5YYxkGjMMr30e9TwYOvmrhRHCm2xcaMBcBO9rsz6NIiOLW3 CiNQTqcmNP31qWelKtolWZvCDbQ2f93wudS-2FXOcVyC-2FkGvL-2BaPHCtZoqoYrM4tiT10kGXVtoJlH907Olx1-2BNCyHWU1gwJocEgLA8qWM0-2Bi3IhUli-2B1C4B-2FZXNFLAvvs8jAYeDxNzgbpNBBVfy5FXoZ1IUS5vHwp1cNdkLx KEWq7NaJzUWhBzKXwlD3By4zFTx6XfuIZTmPSgq4wS8B1GsnPE 7Jqe1ykBKeydMksywuRpti-2Fu2q9qS8GD)


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Trump and his AG Sessions will stop at nothing to criminalize people of color in this country. We're not ignoring this reality; we're fighting back.

That's why we hold rights trainings and encourage others to organize their own. That's why we help organize the Deportation Defense Teams. Our communities will not be intimidated by Trump and Sessions. We are #HereToStay and our movement will not give in to Trump's fearmongering.

That's why I'm asking you to help us expand our team right now with a donation of $27. We'll use your donation to expand our Deportation Defense Teams and provide more resources to immigrant communities across the country. (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1gA/ni0YAA/t.27g/Fg_xHK5UToWfND9pq3LJ5g/h3/aHO21LnX1DH2iKGsTPn3bSMm6il-2BDLmn8RZdtoMQC3-2FPXYxE2P5ORUqaPpc5eFLNZyUjjQ6Cj9dOZw6d0E92q17-2Ba5YYxkGjMMr30e9TwYOWBEg84e-2BRTVbI2C35U-2BrDhFk5qZdbAQJzfKsYCGp6RxhMKLUH0hZQTVVuYv6LuFmhnn-2FSEjCHcsZRW3eObqNHGx71IdcsBMovcisoEsDg18MFgL-2BRyW7-2Bnj-2FiJHtZZ52jEwedR1HMOmtz6o0viSVcXAJbKR0KcCjI7ttU7CT J9-2F9cS0hrLvS-2B6fqgjTveUfzyLYocw8HOuK3hnUi1x0T7Wi0SdZRFXn46AfzB klA9NbOX6D-2FhHiz-2F6dDz1wjagfO7vIauHoHLUk3nvBLrhtK8)

Without the support of our strong network, none of our work would be possible. Thank you for supporting United We Dream Action.

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Urgent Action Needed to Free Claudia (detained at Chula Vista immigration detention center)!


[URGENT CALL TO ACTION]


Dear sisters and brothers,

Immigrant right activist Claudia Rueda and her family were the targets of a raid conducted by Border Patrol the morning of Thursday, May 18 in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles.

While Claudia was moving her mother's car, agents attempted to gain entry to the residence she shares with her family. Although the agents were denied access to the house for failing to provide a warrant, they spotted Claudia outside the house and detained her without notifying anyone.

After a few hours of searching and confusion, organizers and loved ones located Claudia in Chula Vista, where she is being detained at an immigration detention center.

Claudia had been organizing and fighting her mother's deportation. And the fight was successful. Her mother was released on Thursday, May 11. But now they have detained Claudia!

Please take action and share widely:

1. Join us to demand Claudia's Immediate Release -- Share her story! #FreeClaudia

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2. Make a call and demand her release!

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3. Make a tweet!

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In struggle,

Yadira Sánchez

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Background articles and information:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-immigration-activist-20170518-story.html

http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/claudia-rueda-free-detained-ice-immigration-deportation-protest-vidal-mother/

https://laopinion.com/2017/05/18/patrulla-fronteriza-detiene-a-estudiante-de-cal-state-los-angeles/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1495157309

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Immigrant rights groups occupying MN Governor Dayton’s office, demand veto of anti-immigrant bill (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=15bb3da669&e=d323598fe4)

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By staff

St. Paul, MN - On the evening of May 23, dozens of members of Minnesota immigrant rights groups occupied Governor Mark Dayton’s office in the State Capitol indefinitely to demand that he veto SF 470 - the Public Safety Budget Bill - which was passed by the Republican House and Senate the previous day. The protesters are planning to stay all night or as long as it takes to get the governor to veto the bill.

If Dayton signs the bill, as he initially stated he would, it would strengthen the unjust ban on undocumented immigrants’ obtaining drivers licenses. Currently, immigrants cannot get drivers licenses in Minnesota, but that is only due to an administrative rule put in place by a prior governor. The new bill would put that administrative rule into law, making it harder to change.

The occupation was called to put pressure on Dayton. The special legislative session is set to end Wednesday, May 24.

Protesters chanted “Governor Dayton, meet with us! Don’t throw immigrants under the bus!” and were impossible to ignore in the capitol.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Immigrant rights activists protest Met Council meeting, demand end to immigration enforcement on pub

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Saint Paul, MN - More than 70 immigrant rights activists and concerned community members packed the May 24 Metropolitan Council meeting at a protest called by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC). The Met Council oversees Metro Transit buses and trains as well as the Transit Police. The protesters held signs that read “Fire the cop,” “No more deportations” and “Metro Transit: Don't be Trump's anti-immigrant shock troops.”

The protest was called after an incident on Sunday, May 14 in which a transit cop on the Minneapolis Blue Line light rail train was video recorded by Minneapolis artist and activist Ricardo Levins Morales. In the video the transit cop asks a train passenger about his immigration status (see video here (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=2e4a749438&e=d323598fe4)). The video went viral with more than a million views, spreading outrage about local police acting as immigration agents.

There have also been several reported incidents of groups of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers carrying out operations on the light rail train. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is one of several agencies under DHS.

The protesters demanded that Metro Transit fire the transit cop who asked a rider about his immigration status on May 14; that they stop carrying out immigration enforcement on trains and buses; and that they stop cooperation with ICE and the DHS on the buses and trains.

About a dozen community members spoke out at the meeting, including Ricardo Levins Morales, who had filmed the viral video. Other speakers were with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), Communities United Against Police Brutality and others. After community members finished speaking out, Metro Transit police chief John Harrington began to give his testimony to the Met Council about the May 14 incident. Part way through his testimony, community members began speaking out and challenging him. Community members then retook control of the meeting and began speaking out again until the Met Council members decided to adjourn their meeting. The group left their list of demands with members of the Met Council.

Many of the immigrant rights supporters at the Met Council meeting then left to go to the state capitol building to join in with the ongoing occupation of Governor Dayton’s office that is demanding that he veto an anti-immigrant bill at the legislature. The occupation began May 23 and will continue until Dayton vetoes the anti-immigrant bill that legislators are trying to push through in a special session. The occupation grew into massive protests throughout the day May 24 as many unions and other organizations converged on the capitol expressing solidarity and demanding that Governor Dayton also veto other bills that Republicans had attached anti-union language to. The chant of “Veto everything!” grew throughout the day.

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Why Austin matters to everyone


Fund the SB4 Resistance!

We will make history together on May 29. Help make this resistance a success by contributing today. Be a freedom fighter!

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Chris,

I want to tell you about why our May 29 day of action in Austin, Texas matters to everyone.

Racist laws like SB4 must be challenged. I was just home in Houston, and my mother is feeling afraid. She’s afraid about my father’s day-to-day work, which requires him to be driving around all day. I’m sure she’s wondering if he’ll make it home tonight. This is the uncertainty that immigrants in Texas are feeling knowing that looking brown can lead to deportation.

But I am hopeful. In Houston, communities defeated the country’s largest 287g contract, the policy that allowed collaboration between local police and ICE. The community got the Mayor of Houston to develop recommendations on changes to make Houston a safe city for immigrants.

This May 29th we are loudly and boldly proclaiming that in Texas, immigrants of color are united with freedom fighters. Thousands are ready to fight back against SB4 and Greg Abbott.

This day will be historic. But in order to make it happen, we still need to raise over $20,000 to bring supplies and other critical resources to Austin for the people who are taking action all day and the hundreds of people who are descending into Texas.

We still need to hit our goal with just a few days left to go. This is urgent: Will you contribute $27 to our May 29 day of action right now? (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/4AA/ni0YAA/t.27m/pQGQZ0qyTluthAipRb9n6g/h1/aHO21LnX1DH2iKGsTPn3bYhi39zkK-2F5KLSrcx61KPVFTIrHADnhFGNDzeVCyMvdsMjPVVV05usxpUX 7nZCMqdUC2ymVWwV9-2Fs8etKqOjz04MyaWIhFYz7s58rLOzZ72PsPKoT-2FJ-2FWXAPZ5I-2F0n91m8TZW4ViWffa5H4-2FRG8tDTf8KAgszNmWnjf6ungI-2Fdbh7JRphrdciNaJ6nb05Po6r9nELd-2BbYZgwfa-2BNUrYhQ0nheOEyqVSVTYdrCfoUA6KQlLNZAYCG8V50GfsUHKi ytLawecWtpwDOWvU-2Fv4ZFQ5k-3D)

Thank you for helping us make May 29th historic.

In solidarity,
Adrian Reyna

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Undocumented immigrants are being hunted, one cell phone at a time


Chris Kaihatsu,

In Michigan, deportation officers “tricked” the cellphone of a young undocumented immigrant into thinking a squad car was a cellphone tower -- and now that young man is facing federal charges, on top of deportation.1

His name is Rudy Carcamo-Carranza, and he’s one of who knows how many undocumented people on the wrong end of a cyber manhunt. ADD YOUR NAME: Click here to demand that the Department of Homeland Security stop using counter-terrorism cell phone surveillance equipment to locate undocumented immigrants. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-spying-undocumented-immigrants-cell-phones/?t=1&akid=5821.610737.Kwh7OC)

Deportation officers have started using devices designed for counter-terrorism2 known as Stingrays and Hailstorms.

They’re suitcase-sized military-grade surveillance equipment that mimic cellphone towers, and give deportation officers access to phone records from any cellphone within range.

In Michigan, Homeland Security agents needed a search warrant to hunt down Carcamo-Carranza’s cell phone. But that’s not a requirement in every state.3 Because of that, surveillance watchdog organizations like ours can’t be entirely sure how often deportation officials use Stingrays and Hailstorms to hunt undocumented people.

Tell the DHS to immediately stop using Stingray and Hailstorm devices for deportation cases. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-spying-undocumented-immigrants-cell-phones/?t=2&akid=5821.610737.Kwh7OC)

These cyber man-hunts are made possible because of the increasingly militarized state of our law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security owns about 194 Stingray and Hailstorm devices, and on top of that, they allow police agencies to use DHS terrorism prevention funds to purchase their own.4

Welcome to Trump’s America, where instead of using high-tech high-grade surveillance devices to fight terrorism, government agents use them in our own backyards to hunt down undocumented people.

Tell the DHS to stop using Stringray and Hailstorm devices to deport undocumented people. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/no-spying-undocumented-immigrants-cell-phones/?t=3&akid=5821.610737.Kwh7OC)

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The Detroit News, “Feds Use Anti-terror Tool to Hunt the Undocumented” May 18, 2017
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URGENT: sign the petition to stop Martin Martinez's deportation


Dear Chris,

Last month, it seemed like ICE was ready to deport Martin Martinez, a father of two U.S. citizens who has lived here for more than 30 years. Maria Martinez, his daughter, carried more than 20,000 petition signatures from Presente members into their meeting with ICE. ICE delayed Martinez's deportation, and told him to apply for a stay of removal. It was a great sign that the pressure is working – but we don't know what will happen next.

Martin Martinez has another meeting with ICE this Tuesday, June 6th. Can you help get the number of petition signatures over 25,000 before then, so that the Martinez family can show ICE their support is growing?

Tell ICE not to deport Martin Martinez. (https://act.presente.org/go/2464?t=1&akid=1617.523110.YfCv7J)

You can read the original email we sent (below) for more information.

Thank you for all you do and ¡adelante!

– Matt, Favianna, Erick, Reetu, Oscar, Erica and the Presente.org team.

P.S. Once you've signed, can you also make a phone call to ICE? It just takes a minute – our call tool gives you the number and a short script you can use. (http://act.presente.org/call/mmartinez/?t=2&akid=1617.523110.YfCv7J)

My father has lived here for 30 years, but ICE wants to deport him next week.

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Will you sign our petition calling on ICE not to separate our family?

TAKE ACTION (https://act.presente.org/go/2403?t=4&akid=1617.523110.YfCv7J)


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Dear Chris,

ICE has ordered my father, Martin Martinez, to check in next week on Wednesday, May 3rd and bring a one-way ticket to Mexico.

My father has been living in this country for more than 30 years with my mother, Julia Ochoa. They raised my brother and I here in New York, and they have a new 3-month-old granddaughter, Olivia Grace.

ICE can use its discretion and decide not to separate our family – they did it once before, after members of the community joined my family in speaking out.

Can you sign our petition asking ICE to stop my father’s deportation – and ask your friends and family to do the same?

My parents applied for asylum in 2004, but were denied, despite the fact that my brother and I were still children. The judge determined that we couldn't prove deporting my father would cause "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" for my brother and I, even though we were just 10 and 15 years old at the time. The judge told my parents that they would get a letter providing a date for them to leave the country, but it never came, so they continued to work, pay taxes, and raise my brother and I.

My parents are not a danger to the public. Julia has no criminal record. Martin has two DWI charges from nearly two decades ago but has learned from his mistakes and has not been pulled over since.

My parents were detained in 2013,1 but ICE decided against deporting them after hearing from my family, community members, and leaders.2 Will you join us speaking out again now?

Please join my family in calling on ICE to allow my father to stay with his family in the country he has called home for 30 years.

Sincerely,

Maria Martinez

P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? (https://act.presente.org/go/2404?t=7&akid=1617.523110.YfCv7J) We rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.

Sources:
1. "Teen fights to get parents out of immigration detention." Daily News. April 18, 2013.
2. "Teen wins fight to free parents from detention." Daily News. May 1, 2013.


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Despite Court Losses, Trump Has Found A Backdoor To Continue The Muslim Ban

The administration continues to impose unreasonable administrative hurdles on visa applicants from Muslim-majority countries.

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Trump’s Muslim ban is currently on life support after several court losses. Yet, it remains very much in effect thanks to a backdoor Muslim ban – granting ‘carte blanche’ to unlawfully discriminate against visa applicants from the same six Muslim-majority countries listed in the travel ban, under new “extreme vetting” measures.

Since the overt Muslim ban has largely been defeated in court, the Trump administration has opted for a more piecemeal approach to banning all Muslims which overwhelmingly targets Iranians and has already caused a significant drop in visas issued to Iranians.

Throughout the month of March, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent a series of four internal cables to embassies and consulate offices overseas. On March 10, Tillerson sent a cable entitled “Guidance to Visa-Issuing Posts,” and another cable entitled “Implementing Immediate Heightened Screening and Vetting of Visa Applications“ sent on March 15.

In the March 15 cable, officers were directed to inquire about a subset of visa applicants’ social media identifiers, handles and email addresses, as well as travel history, addresses, and prior occupation(s) and employer(s) over the last 15 years. For many, providing 15 years of boarding passes and itineraries as well as proof of funds for domestic and international travel, could prove to be onerous at best and impossible at worst.

The next day, U.S. District Court judges in Hawaii and Maryland granted nationwide preliminary injunctions freezing implementation of the president’s Muslim ban.

Following near-fatal defeats in court, Tillerson sent another cable the same day entitled “Halt Implementation,” as well as a cable the following day on March 17 entitled “Implementing Immediate Heightened Screening and Vetting of Visa Applications.” Although the cables following the court decisions directed embassies and consular officials to disregard the “extreme vetting” until approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Visa applicants from the six Muslim-majority countries listed in the Muslim ban, however, would still be subject to inter-agency background checks under the Security Advisory Opinion (SAO) process which could significantly delay the visa process by many months. As a result, this hurdle is already being implemented, and appears to be having a deleterious impact on visa applicants from Muslim ban countries like Iran.

About a month later, the Department of State finally followed the chaotic flurry of cables with an emergency request to OMB for approval of the “extreme vetting” questions that were outlined in the March 15 cable.

Unsupported by any factual or legal basis justifying emergency review and after a delay of about a month, the expedited emergency review process significantly shortened the time for public review of the proposal and deprived the public of the opportunity to submit fully-informed comments. Comments were due to be submitted just two weeks after the OMB emergency request.

Almost immediately after public comments were submitted from NIAC, ACLU, and others, it took OMB just five days to approve the emergency request on May 23. Notably, OMB approvals are not subject to judicial review under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

The result is a subset of visa applicants – likely overwhelmingly Iranian – will be subjected to this disparate treatment and additional layer of scrutiny for at least the next 90 days.

The courts have temporarily removed the unconstitutional March 6 executive order hurdle – for now. Iranians and Muslims will next have to provide social media handles and 15 years worth of travel history, employment history and other personal information. If they are able to get over the near-impossible “extreme vetting,” they still face yet another obstacle – the SAO hurdle. Iranian visa applicants would be subjected to a background check conducted by virtually every American intelligence and security agency, which could cause several more months of delays.

Despite nationwide injunctions, the multi-layered Muslim ban is already being implemented – and working. According to a Politico report, visas issued to Iranians dropped by 52 percent in April compared to the average monthly rate last year. Similarly, Somali applicants saw a 68 percent drop, and visa issuance to nationals of all Muslim-majority countries dropped by about 20 percent across the board.

The University of California saw a drop in international applications for the first time in 12 years, with applications from countries with large Muslim populations falling 10 percent.

In addition to the requirements, there is almost certainly a chilling effect caused by such barriers to entry that discourage visa applications to the United States. The best and brightest students and researchers throughout the world who present no national security risk may avoid traveling to the United States to avoid being subjected to such intrusive scrutiny.

Further, if it is found that the administrative Muslim ban is resulting in racial profiling or impermissible discrimination on the basis of nationality and religion rather than well-founded national security threats, the “extreme vetting” backdoor to the Muslim ban is likely to raise serious legal concerns and challenges.

The Department of Justice has already filed papers requesting the Supreme Court to hear the Fourth Circuit challenge to the Muslim ban which upheld the lower court’s nationwide injunction. They also asked the Supreme Court to fast track the case and hear it before the summer recess, in addition to requesting that the Hawaii and Maryland injunctions be lifted pending the decision of the court.

But it appears that the desired outcome of the Muslim ban is already being achieved, irrespective of the fate of the embattled executive order. The National Iranian American Council and Iranians across the globe are watching very closely and stand ready to act immediately if Iranians and Muslims continue to be targeted by this administration.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Residents of at least one Washington D.C. neighborhood woke up on Thursday to find the area plastered with posters urging them to turn in illegal immigrants, but federal authorities denied putting up the signs and denounced them as inciting fear.

The bogus posters bearing the seal of the Department of Homeland Security warned about criminal offenses related to harboring or helping people in the country illegally, and gave phone numbers to report information about them to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"If you see something, say something," said the flyer, titled "Sanctuary City Neighborhood Public Notice" and written on the ICE letterhead.

Washington is among dozens of so-called sanctuary cities that offer safe haven to illegal immigrants, and local police are under orders not to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to deport residents. An attempt by the administration of President Donald Trump to cut off federal funds to sanctuary cities has been blocked by a court.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Twitter that the posters were aimed at scaring residents of the heavily Democratic city and that she had ordered police and the Public Works Department to remove them.

"Tear it down! DC is a sanctuary city," she said.

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Carissa Cutrell, an ICE spokeswoman, said the agency had not put up the posters and called them dangerous and irresponsible.

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"Any person who actively incites panic or fear of law enforcement is doing a disservice to the community, endangering public safety and the very people they claim to support and represent," she said in an email.

Cutrell said she had no information about who might have put up the posters or whether the number of telephone calls to her agency had increased.

(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington and by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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"Breaking through the rhetoric in this moment of polarization and "fake news" requires making connections with people and creating a shared conversation. Alianza Americas is organizing tours and delegations that bring the stories and experiences of groups in Mexico and Central America directly to people in the United States, and vice versa. Alianza Americas brings its unique transnational perspective to fighting for economic justice, as we advocate for equitable budgets and decent jobs. At the same time, the issue of migrant protections remains a priority-with a renewed focus on people currently holding Temporary Protected Status.

Alianza Americas is uniquely positioned to make these people-to-people connections across borders. We invite you to learn more about this work, and support our HIP Give campaign (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iYCAaoWqJd2EO8qZaMyvsj7jlSsLt8E5XtU-hBM5v6GlIABL2hTyNKIsGsclImMzMjtm0IEAOimhWKTUZI7noX ab-TG8dEYC99xCSZQe1F5-0aXIA0ooWWxb_Wsdta68fFozxpLVp4OlzwkH_GbMjXtPHvjOH1 Z05Cp38qm9k-IaONqzu_bBM9DnUbZUMHD_LnhEDKEdc_HB438F-9fm2pIq_6OW5BnfQYEzmLZxPkuKMbHb2z5-R0pd8Z-ZkwPMH9A2-kMn1RJmJuFJnGFoomEexDtKFV5i23ztQmyr-xrmM7c0QgvxdmwTGfTJdWQ2FFvXpznG4Rk=&c=cTM2wd6Pk16Z9J5YRUjsojjLmi9-lIY88waAFP4eNQPvV30z8efoxA==&ch=m7DNeAtWeEcY0EpdgdmDL4cf-Lu07diavnhANxXkzBeA3NrrAPOnnw==) to keep up the momentum across the country."

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Alianza Americas organized two US Speaking Tours focused on education and advocacy this Spring. In April, Neesa Medina, a defender of women's rights in Honduras brought her story to audiences in Boston,New York, and Washington, DC. In May, the tour turned to the South. Maya Casillas, who works with families and young people seeking asylum in Mexico, joined staff members Cristina Garcia and Yanira Arias for visits in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. The tours were a resounding success, with many new invitations resulting from each visit. Even some folks who work on immigration or immigrant-rights issues found themselves surprised by the realities on the ground in Central America and Mexico. Opening up a direct channel for dialogue helped situate their local challenges into a transnational context.

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Just this past week, a mini-delegation of Alianza Americas board, staff and members headed to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras calling on governments to step up to the urgent need for protections for their nationals residing in the United States. In the face of rising arrests and deportations, immigrants desperately need consular services of all sorts. Sadly, they are most lacking in the areas where most needed, including the US South.Countries are also woefully un-prepared to take on returned migrants.

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Alianza Americas is happy to announce the launch of our mid-year HIP GIVE - SOMOS/WE ARE Campaign. Funds raised for this campaign will go towards the programming for our SOMOS/We are Youth programming and our ongoing educational speaking tours. Become a donor or individual member today! (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iYCAaoWqJd2EO8qZaMyvsj7jlSsLt8E5XtU-hBM5v6GlIABL2hTyNJlMTerfxAkssD8-Tk2RLHRJydt7mMbSzdjbH2QmmvzJFDHmv3acCZJXqKSd_vOc7F lkN0NBWTHbmSPenYxguKB2d1gYW19-XpnKGbWXSEMJthdAXnxrye3PFUSmTLAuHR6QccqWPYdjjTYAYb PG_Ge3eCKQkG4Li3allGjeRV-gHxxSSr059-gYX-GMyJ_5MH_0V2a_ZYQ6Yp4z-BPB2LQfvvxV29AzfD9yirIcuQqOvZ-fa30lxGFxNE-vE2TFCIWx1ILBemqY4kYQNNOXZiBbqUb2Ue6f2TV-JjhYrqCeeVv3SDoPTi2HfjiHSVkTGjJdOIVYJTE9W5yVqz-WodLuQT8rtUlocoZ5MbfIHaCRDDeAINx0kYovqYgpghB3v0ijP CNFv-JAjw4-h_v4JNIXvk7PNabASQ==&c=cTM2wd6Pk16Z9J5YRUjsojjLmi9-lIY88waAFP4eNQPvV30z8efoxA==&ch=m7DNeAtWeEcY0EpdgdmDL4cf-Lu07diavnhANxXkzBeA3NrrAPOnnw==) Support an educational tour near you and programming that promotes healthy self-identities in Latin American Youth while combatting xenophobia and recognizing the many positive contributions that migrants make to the United States and to their countries of origin. Help us reach our goal of $5,000 and Donate Now! (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iYCAaoWqJd2EO8qZaMyvsj7jlSsLt8E5XtU-hBM5v6GlIABL2hTyNKIsGsclImMzMjtm0IEAOimhWKTUZI7noX ab-TG8dEYC99xCSZQe1F5-0aXIA0ooWWxb_Wsdta68fFozxpLVp4OlzwkH_GbMjXtPHvjOH1 Z05Cp38qm9k-IaONqzu_bBM9DnUbZUMHD_LnhEDKEdc_HB438F-9fm2pIq_6OW5BnfQYEzmLZxPkuKMbHb2z5-R0pd8Z-ZkwPMH9A2-kMn1RJmJuFJnGFoomEexDtKFV5i23ztQmyr-xrmM7c0QgvxdmwTGfTJdWQ2FFvXpznG4Rk=&c=cTM2wd6Pk16Z9J5YRUjsojjLmi9-lIY88waAFP4eNQPvV30z8efoxA==&ch=m7DNeAtWeEcY0EpdgdmDL4cf-Lu07diavnhANxXkzBeA3NrrAPOnnw==)

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Congressional Research Committee Report: Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues (released Jan 17, 2017) (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iYCAaoWqJd2EO8qZaMyvsj7jlSsLt8E5XtU-hBM5v6GlIABL2hTyNJlMTerfxAksBvGT6SJg3NUa6CWzir5oAd J3CMyD9GsNOFCW86x9LKLZ9hILvEB8yYjlbQCO7LSSIiReWtwh vqbJEU6hyMvicaU5ilds258f2O1Rs3xyWIqUgVQwJ2KuAxbq0S lEjnJBUi3hUCvVU-EEzIWowbLzZA0FcuDVoR33w7e_63Aa0hZCcTjJmloblUaxPfO4 1fjosQ_Qvy_wxSJciAxhpzsrz2jZI6yF3ch95iNm0kbFTnqZ1q iez4tUcOUSHf0TsIT-AWPPx_dr3xiPTFn8k9GE6g==&c=cTM2wd6Pk16Z9J5YRUjsojjLmi9-lIY88waAFP4eNQPvV30z8efoxA==&ch=m7DNeAtWeEcY0EpdgdmDL4cf-Lu07diavnhANxXkzBeA3NrrAPOnnw==)

When civil unrest, violence, or natural disasters erupt in spots around the world, concerns arise over the safety of foreign nationals from these troubled places who are in the United States. Provisions exist in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to offer temporary protected status (TPS) and other blanket forms of relief from removal under specified circumstances.
The United States currently provides TPS to over 300,000 foreign nationals from a total of 13 countries: El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

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Economic Contributions by Salvadoran, Honduran, and Haitian TPS Holders

Report by the ILRC that calculates the economic losses of ending TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti. Losses include cost to taxpayers, GDP reduction, decrease in Social Security and Medicare contributions, and turnover costs for businesses.

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ALABAMA

Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice: Youth Summit
JULY 14, All Day
Youth Summit-Summit-This summit is for people under the age of 30 who are interested in fighting for immigrant justice. 1860 6th Ave S-Irondale-AL-Migratation | Migracion
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CALIFORNIA

Carecen LA: Taller de Ciudadania/ Citizenship Workshop
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Download this Guide on Organizing as Defense Against Federal Investigations and Prosecution


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Chris --

Today, we’re releasing a new tool to push back against the Trump regime and protect and defend each other.

Click here to see the “In Defense of Organizing” Guide published today. (http://members.mijente.net/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmijente.net%2F2017%2F06%2F05%2Fg uide-organizing-defense-federal-investigations-prosecutions%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmijente.net%2F2017%2F 06%2F05%2Fguide-organizing-defense-federal-investigations-prosecutions%2F&e=4687d6b13850decb1c78acb1b280a9c9&utm_source=mijente&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=indefense_genrl&n=2)

Under Trump’s Administration, there is an increased likelihood that federal law enforcement agencies such as DOJ, ICE or FBI retaliate against organizers and advocates in an effort to prevent our people’s democratic participation in political dissent and protests. There are new threats in our communities and we must be prepared to fight back.

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Jessica’s DACA has been revoked.


Chris,

When one of us is under attack, we must all come together to fight back. Since Trump came to power, a growing number of DACA recipients have been harassed, detained, deported, or denied their DACA status without justification. Now, US immigration agencies have revoked Jessica Colotls’ DACA status, putting her in deportation proceedings.

Jessica is undocumented. In 2010, she was arrested for parking a car without a license and spent 37 days in immigration detention. She was told she’d be deported, but public outcry led to her release. Jessica's story became part of the movement led by immigrant youth to win DACA in 2012.

Just like in the cases of Daniel Ramirez, Daniela Vargas and Juan Manuel Montes, the reason for Jessica’s DACA revocation is a flimsy one. When Jessica was arrested, officials wrote down her address. Shortly after, her parents moved. But officials later claimed that Jessica willfully gave false information – and charged her with a felony. This is wrong! We need to fight for Jessica right now. Will you join us?

Take action: Add your name to demand Jessica's release and reinstatement of DACA right now.

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Thank you for fighting for and with Jessica today.

In solidarity,

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No Hate, No Fear


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Chris,

When the moment called on May 1st, you and thousands of others across the country answered the call to rise up for immigrants. Yet, while we continue to resist Donald Trump and his administration's hateful policies, some of America's biggest companies are doing the opposite -- they're falling in line behind him.

Meet the Corporate Backers of Hate -- nine corporations that stand to profit from Trump's racist, xenophobic agenda. In the pursuit of profit, the actions of these companies diminish the dignity of our families. Find out more about the Corporate Backers of Hate! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2853/167a7536/1f4eac08/4db1e6bf/3542010764/VEsF/)

JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo are major financiers of the country's two largest private prison and immigrant detention companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. These two corporations, among seven others, either have direct ties to the Trump administration or will profit from plans to ramp up Trump's deportation machine and they must be held accountable. Hold the nine Corporate Backers of Hate accountable and send emails to their CEOs demanding that they denounce Donald Trump! (http://we.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/page/m/2ebc2853/167a7536/1f4eac08/4db1e6bf/3542010764/VEsC/) Once you've chosen the Backer of Hate you'd like to email, click on the "give 'em hell" button and scroll to the bottom of the page to send your message.

We have a duty to speak out against the Trump administration as it continues to target our communities. If corporations want our communities to continue to give them our business, they need to speak out against Trump as well.

In Solidarity,

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Did you see what happened this weekend?


Dear Chris,

If Donald Trump has his way this week, I may never get to bring my husband home.

My husband Basheer and I married over a year ago. I’m American, he’s Yemeni. After our wedding I flew back to New York to start the process of getting him an immigrant visa. But before that could happen, Trump put his hateful campaign rhetoric into effect and imposed the Muslim ban. Even now, with the ban on hold, immigration authorities keep delaying us.

Now, the Trump administration is petitioning the Supreme Court to lift the temporary block on the Muslim ban. It could go back into effect as early as tomorrow.

If that happens I may never be reunited with my husband again.

Tell Congress: Stop the Muslim Ban, Once and For All. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=952465&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Last week, Basheer told me that three of his friends had been killed in Yemen. “I can’t do this anymore,” he told me. He fled Yemen because his work as a journalist and his activism made him a target, and threatened his life. He can’t go back, but he also can’t come here.

This ban affects all of us. Last weekend, anti-Muslim protests were organized in cities across the country. I was afraid of what might happen but it was inspiring to see so many people take to the streets to fight back and hold counter protests to say No Ban No Wall.

Even so it was a chilling reminder of what’s at stake: This fight is not just about the Muslim ban, but about whether the white supremacists are going to have their hey-day. We can’t let their hate become the new normal.

That’s why I’m asking you to join Amnesty International in fighting hate and bigotry and demanding that members of Congress stand with us.

Tell Congress: Stop the Muslim Ban, Once and For All. (https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=952466&ea.campaigner.email=boBFmXJG0Szuya%2FTZFVW597cBTh3 KwkR&ea.campaigner.id=taC3hZjkDyGZkArzVWMSmA==&ea_broadcast_target_id=0)

Thank you for your support.

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Immigration raids strike Detroit: Dozens rounded up for deportation to Iraq war zone

By Eric London and Niles Niemuth

13 June 2017

In a series of raids Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested as many as 100 Iraqi immigrants in the Detroit metro area, including Muslims and many Chaldean Catholics, some of whom were reportedly captured while leaving church services.

Family members of the arrestees told the World Socialist Web Site that the detainees were sent to a for-profit prison four hours away near Youngstown, Ohio, from where they face immediate risk of deportation to Iraq.

Protesters held a demonstration at the Mother of God Catholic Church in Southfield yesterday, where friends and family of the arrestees wept and screamed denunciations of Trump and immigration officials.

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Iraqi woman denounces immigration raids

Relatives say that deportation will be a “death sentence” due to the ongoing war and sectarian strife that has enveloped Iraq since the US invasion of 2003. While ICE claims they are only deporting dangerous criminals, relatives say some of the arrestees were convicted for crimes as minor as marijuana possession and that many of the convictions are decades old.

The decision by the Trump administration to deport refugees to Iraq explodes the claims that the US wars in Iraq and Syria are “humanitarian” interventions aimed at protecting the population. In violation of international law, the US government is sending the arrestees into an active warzone in a region that it continues to bomb. Iraq has been laid to waste by 25 years of permanent US-led war. The death toll is in the millions.

As the ICE raids were taking place Sunday, the Department of Defense issued a press release announcing that the US military launched seven air strikes in Iraq, hitting Bayji, Kisik, Mosul, and Tal Afar in recent days.

Family members were informed that their relatives could be sent to the Iraqi city of Erbil, located less than two hours by car from Mosul, a city under active siege where the US has killed thousands of civilians and where the US-backed invasion force has been accused of using the chemical white phosphorous against the population.

Mosul, which has been largely demolished by the US siege, is the seat of a leading Chaldean Catholic Church diocese and the home of ethnic Chaldeans, an Assyrian population whose roots in Iraq date back over 5,500 years.

Although the Chaldean minority in Iraq was not targeted by the secular regime of Saddam Hussein, persecution grew after the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91 as the US stoked sectarian conflict in the country’s northern Kurdish region in an effort to destabilize the Ba’athist government.

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A portion of the protest at Mother of God church in Southfield, Michigan

Conditions drastically worsened after the US invasion, which fueled sectarian warfare as the US military mobilized Shi’ite forces against insurgents in the majority Sunni areas, and both Islamic factions persecuted religious minorities like Yazidis and Chaldeans. Over 80 Chaldean churches have been bombed since the US occupation began.

Since the 2003 US invasion, Iraq’s total Christian population has fallen from 1.5 million to 400,000 due to death and emigration. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to Syria after the US invasion, only to now find themselves trapped in the conflict raging there.

In order to stoke civil war and force the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in neighboring Syria, the US has backed an opposition dominated by Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate, the Al Nusra Front, which has also carried out atrocities against Chaldeans in both Syria and Iraq. Al Qaeda is believed to be responsible for the 2008 assassination of Mosul’s Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahno.

In the last three years, ISIS has routinely destroyed Chaldean churches, killed religious officials, and desecrated ancient ruins. The Islamist group developed in Iraq and emerged in Syria under conditions where the US’s deliberate policy was to fuel violent religious conflict. In Iraq, the purpose is to keep the population divided and more easily dominated by Washington. In Syria, the aim is to bring down Assad.

Sunday’s round-up is the product of a deal made in March by the Trump administration with the Iraqi government that removed the country from the administration’s revised executive order barring travel from seven predominantly-Muslim nations. Under the terms of the deal, Iraq agreed to take deportees from the US, something the country has not done for years.

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Steve said, "If they took your brother, father, sister, or mother, how would you feel? What would you do?"

Many Chaldeans at Monday’s demonstration told the WSWS they voted for Trump because he claimed he would protect Christians in Iraq and Syria. An older Chaldean man whose brother was arrested said, “I voted for Trump, it’s not fair. This is our home, where are we to go in Iraq? We have no country, that’s why we came to America!”

Steve, another Chaldean protester whose brother was arrested, said, “Trump lied, he said he would go after people without legal papers, but everyone they arrested had papers. My brother went in for a regular check-up with immigration authorities, and he got picked up at home one week later. If they took your brother, father, sister, or mother, how would you feel? What would you do?”

Scenes like the one that played out in a church parking lot in Michigan on Monday afternoon are becoming increasingly common in the US. In the first three months following his inauguration, Trump’s administration arrested over 40,000 immigrants, an escalation from the already high numbers deported under Barack Obama.

Across the country, parents of all backgrounds are being torn from their children and from one another. Many, including those from the Middle East, Central America and Southeast Asia, will be sent back to impoverished disaster zones suffering from the impact of US imperialist intervention.

The number of lives shattered by these policies is in the tens of millions, and yet there is near total silence from the Democratic Party on Trump’s mass deportation program.

Instead, the Democratic Party is throwing its entire political energy behind advancing unsubstantiated neo-McCarthyite claims that Trump is an agent of Russia, amplified by highly publicized Senate hearings.

But the Democrats’ attempt to whip up public hysteria over “foreign meddling” may exacerbate xenophobic confusion, further poisoning the political climate and creating conditions in which “foreigners” and immigrants may find themselves the victims of physical attacks. The Democrats’ anti-Russian campaign is providing right-wing paramilitary groups and the Bannon-Miller faction of the Trump White House with a springboard to direct social anger against immigrants.

If public hearings were held on Trump’s deportation program, facts would emerge that would shock tens of millions and educate them on the horrific conditions immigrants face.

For example, the government is setting up a network of camps to house hundreds of thousands of immigrants, including those who have committed no crimes. The government has considered mobilizing 100,000 National Guard troops across 11 western and southwestern states to incarcerate millions of immigrants. ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are filled with thousands of fascistic officers who describe beating and arresting immigrants as “fun.” Violations of immigrants’ due process rights are so routine they are treated as par for the course by immigration attorneys and judges.

The Democrats have not and will not demand hearings to investigate these widespread violations of democratic rights, in part because Barack Obama’s administration carried out similar crimes and deported 2.7 million immigrants. The task of bringing the Trump administration to justice for the attacks on immigrants therefore falls to the working class.

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Did you hear what ICE’s Director said yesterday? (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed99b6/14552b18/45e8cfbf/2b74d0ed/2299599722/VEsE/)

Thank you for e-mailing your US Senators and Congressional Representative and asking them to support the Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2017 (AWPA), the UFW’s new immigration bill for farm workers.

We need to ask you for more help. We're hearing stories of farm workers being afraid to leave their houses except to go to and from work.

And their fear was confirmed yesterday by ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan. In testimony before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, Homan defended the Trump Administration’s targeting of formerly ‘low priority,’ non-criminal undocumented immigrants using the justification, “We shouldn't wait for them to become a criminal.”

What happened to America’s innocent until proven guilty philosophy? Homan’s insulting and inaccurate statement assumes that all undocumented laborers are dormant criminals who are going to commit a crime. In fact the truth is the exact opposite. Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.

A solution to this fear is critically important to the UFW and the community we serve. According to researchers at University of California, Davis, approximately 70% of all the farm workers here who put food on America’s tables are undocumented. And these hard-working people who are a vital part of our economy are scared.

The AWPA takes care of a real need in the farm worker community. It will protect farm workers from deportation and put them on a pathway to legalization and citizenship -- if they have worked 100 days or more in agriculture the past two years and continue to work in agriculture for at least 100 days/year for 5 years or 150 days/year for 3 years and meet other conditions. The AWPA would help ensure a stable, legal workforce in agriculture to the benefit of farm workers, employers and consumers.

Can you please forward this email to friends and family and ask them to e-mail their US Senators and Congressional Representative as well and request their elected officials support the Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2017 (AWPA)?

This bill is critically important in the current atmosphere of Trump’s America and statements like yesterday's. Please take this extra step for farm workers. Thank you.

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The first steps towards a solution began last month. On May 3th Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA-D) introduced the Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2017 (AWPA) alongside 4 original co-sponsors. On May 25 Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez introduced this bill into Congress with 30 original co-sponsors. This bill is critically important in the current atmosphere of Trump’s America.

According to researchers at University of California, Davis, approximately 70% of all the farm workers here who put food on America’s table are undocumented. And these hard working people who are a vital part of our economy are scared. The threat of deportations has caused disruptions to agricultural production.

The AWPA of 2017 takes care of a real need in the farm worker community. It will protect farm workers from deportation and put them on a pathway to legalization and citizenship -- if they show consistent employment in US agriculture and meet other criteria.

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Huffington Post Politics (6/13/17): (http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed99b6/14552b18/45e8cfbf/2b74d0ea/2299599722/VEsO/) ICE Director To All Undocumented Immigrants: ‘You Need To Be Worried’

Non-criminals won’t be spared from deportation, Thomas Homan said.
By Elise Foley

WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration will continue arresting undocumented immigrants who haven’t been convicted of crimes and won’t apologize for it, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday.

“If you’re in this country illegally and you committed a crime by entering this country, you should be uncomfortable,” Acting Director Thomas Homan told the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee. “You should look over your shoulder, and you need to be worried.”

Following up on Trump’s campaign promise to drive out more undocumented immigrants, ICE arrests rose significantly during the president’s first 100 days in office, compared with the same period the year before. About one-quarter of those arrested ― more than 10,800 people ― were non-criminals, meaning they did not have authorization to be in the U.S., but had not been convicted of a crime. (Being in the U.S. without legal status is a civil offense, although it is a crime to cross the border illegally.)

The Trump administration has come under fire from activists and Democratic lawmakers for its deportation practices. Homan, testifying before the subcommittee to explain the agency’s request for additional funding, devoted much of his prepared remarks to arguing those criticisms are unfair. He echoed Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who has said ICE is enforcing laws passed by Congress.

ICE requested a $1.2 billion increase in funding for next fiscal year. Nearly $4.9 billion would expand immigrant detention to more than 51,000 beds from about 34,000 beds ― the number Congress requires ICE to maintain. The budget request also would allow the agency to hire an additional 1,000 enforcement officers and about 600 support staff to increase the rate of removing people.

"If we wait for [non-criminal undocumented immigrants] to violate yet another law against a citizen of this country, then it’s too late. We shouldn’t wait for them to become a criminal." ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan

Even with additional funding, officials have said there is a need to prioritize enforcement, since ICE doesn’t have the funds to deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

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My father was detained, please help stop his deportation!


Dear Chris,

ICE detained my father yesterday, on a ridiculous and callous technicality. Every time we've met with ICE, they've told us to bring a one-way ticket to Mexico for my father, which we've done. Yesterday, we went into the ICE office with a one-way ticket, but the flight had a layover in Orlando—which ICE used as an excuse to lock him up. It's outrageous.

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Urgent Action needed for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)


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On June 1, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly declared his intention to end a program known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that allows people in the wake of an environmental or political crisis in their home country to seek shelter and live in the United States. If this program is ended, it will affect individuals and families from Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua who have lived and worked in the United States for many years, many of whom have put down roots in their communities.

Alianza Americas and its members are taking action to let DHS, Congress, Senate and the White House know that:

Ending these temporary protection programs would be a grave error. It would rip families apart, put people in harm's way, and take hundreds of thousands of productive workers off of our tax rolls, costing the US millions in tax revenues.

Rather than ending the programs, the Trump administration should support a legislative solution to allow current TPS beneficiaries to request permanent residency visas. Our investments in the region should focus on addressing economic, social and political factors that cause people to leave their homes and seek safety in the United States.

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Fight is on to stop his deportation

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New Hope, MN - Protesters packed the June 12 city council work session in New Hope, a suburb of Minneapolis, to demand that the city fire police officer Andy Lamers. Until recently, in addition to his job in New Hope, Lamers also had a part-time job as a police officer with Metro Transit, which operates public transit in the Twin Cities area.

However, Lamers was forced to resign from Metro Transit Police when a video of him surfaced in which he questioned a light rail passenger about his immigration status asking, "Are you here illegally?" The action in New Hope, called for by Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB), asserted Lamers’ resignation from Metro Transit Police was not enough, that officers who blatantly racially profile people shouldn’t be police officers anywhere.

The incident prompting the protest occurred on May 14 and gained national attention after a video posted to Facebook went viral. In the video, officer Lamers can be seen asking a light rail passenger, later identified as Ariel Vences-Lopez, “Are you here illegally?” during what appears to be a routine fare check.

After protesters spoke out forcefully at the May 24 Met Council meeting and forced the authorities to come clean with the whole story, it became clear that after the video snippet showing officer Lamers questioning Vences-Lopez ended, he was then removed from the train, tased and arrested under suspicion of committing fare evasion and obstructing an officer. When Vences-Lopez was in custody at the Hennepin County Jail, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put a hold on him, after which he was transferred to ICE for deportation. Since finding out ICE had Vences-Lopez, immigrant rights activists and lawyers have scrambled to try to stop his deportation while also campaigning to end Metro Transit police’s relationship with immigration enforcement and holding the officer in question accountable.

Organizers next plan to attend and speak at the June 14 meeting of the Metropolitan Council. The speak-out, called by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) will demand that Metro Transit police officers stop carrying out immigration enforcement on trains and buses, and that they stop cooperation with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security on trains and buses.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Reclaim DACA, Fight Trump.


Chris--

For the last five years, the DACA program has successfully protected 800,000 young people from deportation and has enabled us to work and live here with peace of mind. This was huge victory won by Immigrant youth who came out, joined together and took action. But instead of building upon this success, the Trump team is separating our families.

Trump administration officials are working to erode and weaken DACA, from revoking work permits to appointing anti-immigrant officials to oversee the DACA program. We’ve even seen cases of DACA recipients being framed, stalked, detained and deported.

That's why we are committed to continuing the fight for ALL 11 million undocumented immigrants., We are demanding that our policymakers do more than pay lip service to our safety and security. We want action. Right now, we are calling for justice for the wrongly deported. We demand that our brother and DACA recipient Juan Manuel be brought home. Will you join the call?

Tell Secretary Kelly: Bring DACA-Recipient Juan Back from Mexico! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1QA/ni0YAA/t.287/SlcdqZpFQ9myfIHhyBZR7g/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3C4U3QucyAVfDmr4cr5BeH5RRf-2B3sfnuL6Ejhufw774ssqeM3-2BhB5PxndZfwq40OZqIf8eH5nCG7e8QO-2FLHef7a-2F436nSNC0W10mA5A0yT7vYta4-2BYvJrjQPf3ui7T34ga3q6f7TY90o6OZwPkimrqBgU9pXpWIXy FmoPagcw4Z7BpWja4BCczMNUI-2BJnuL-2BoOJPS8eK0O9SWATP2bUZmogYk9sKM1rzXLuiuGgpoUZrdoDP ld2B-2BHlrdW2nHPjmCJktBwpIhZ9FQAGbPr06njhQcgTCpIxLIkNnE ny9tHfHw-3D-3D)

Our policymakers in Washington need to hold DHS accountable for their out-of-control enforcement -- and ensure that DACA is a strong and reliable protection for immigrant youth. Our elected officials also must work to stop Donald Trump’s racist, mass deportation agenda. This is part of a larger and more, permanent policy effort to protect immigrant youth and our families. We want to be able to build our lives freely, without fear of detention or deportation or harassment from ICE agents. That is what we fight for.

We’re ready to put our bodies on the line for this fight. Now, we need YOU to join and fight with us!

Join this action. Urge Secretary Kelly to bring back Juan Manuel! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/1QA/ni0YAA/t.287/SlcdqZpFQ9myfIHhyBZR7g/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3C4U3QucyAVfDmr4cr5BeH5RRf-2B3sfnuL6Ejhufw774ssqeM3-2BhB5PxndZfwq40OZqIf8eH5nCG7e8QO-2FLHef7a-2F436nSNC0W10mA5A0yT7vYta4-2BYvJrjQPf3ui7T34gb6kww3a2vnun3q-2F7x45j82cpb9E6qdVOeJsq1FBLYvkBVrHIv1gf-2BrV3STfz8G94qy0ECkrgpBjvlR4fFaLEfL-2FTSEnO-2BIrUdOrpQjxhcYYfuekAeZBUsISagZjsIpWwgUlR740tBTb95-2BdjUq4Zzlx5NQPwQtNrfpoNEQB8xGJw-3D-3D)

Here at United We Dream, we’re doing everything we can to organize against the Trump administration and fight back to defend and strengthen DACA. And we won’t stop until we achieve permanent protection for undocumented young people and our loved ones . We all deserve the chance to pursue our dreams, build our lives and thrive. We believe that we will win.

Thank you for taking action today.

In solidarity,

Greisa and the rest of the team at United We Dream


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Claudia is Free! 1st ICE Check-In Today: TAKE ACTION!


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Dear Chris,

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT YOU GAVE CLAUDIA!
CLAUDIA IS FREE!

Claudia's THANK YOU VIDEO (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OTJc6J7GobaumV7Xz%2BspofXAIoUb%2B5tj)

http://action.ndlon.org/c/1509/images/Free%20Claudia%20R%20/Claudia%20Release%20Pic%20.jpg

AS A HUMAN BEING FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, HER EXPERIENCE REPRESENTS THE CONTINUOUS ABUSE AND REPRESSION OF THIS GOVERNMENT.

THIS WIN ALSO REPRESENTS THE POWER OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!

She was released on her own recognizes! Meaning she didn't have to pay the system that continues to deport and incarcerate our communities to get her freedom.
HOWEVER, SHE IS STILL IN DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS!

TODAY, FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH SHE HAS HER FIRST ICE CHECK-IN @10 AM

TAKE ACTION!

CALL, TWEET & SIGN THE PETITION PRESSURING THE NATIONAL ICE OFFICE & SAN DIEGO OFFICE TO APPROVE HER PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION.

Words from Claudia: “Thanks to your support I am free and with my family. I am so grateful for your support, this whole experience has been traumatic and it does not end. I still face possible deportation. Please help me make calls to urge the ICE Director to approve prosecutorial discretion, so my family can stay together”

Call

Call Matthew T. Albence, Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, (ICE) & Tracy Short Principal Legal Advisor

(202) 732-5513

“I am a community member (friend, religious leader, from this organization) calling to urge you (Director Albence) and Tracy Short to approve Claudia Rueda’s (A#213-081-680) Prosecutorial Discretion package. She is a student at Cal State LA, DACA eligible youth and beloved member of her community, allow her to continue her education, life with her family here in the United States”

Call ICE San Diego Field Office
Phone: (619) 557-6117 (ask to speak to operator) or 619-338-3707
Call Script
“Hi, my name is ________________, and I am a concerned community member calling in support of Claudia Sarahi Rueda Vidal, (A# 213-081-680), a DACA eligible youth, college student and beloved community member from Boyle Heights. Claudia has been a mentor in the community. I call to urge Director Greg Archambault to grant Claudia prosecutorial discretion and release her immediately to her family and community” *Note- you don’t need to give your full name or phone number*


Tweet

[email protected] I urge Director Albence & Legal Advisor Tracy to approve Claudia Rueda’s Prosecutorial Discretion Request (A#213-081-680) #Justice4Claudia

Sign Petition

http://bit.ly/FreeClaudiaPetition

SAVE THE DATE: MONDAY, JUNE 18TH- PRESS CONFERENCE:JUSTICE FOR CLAUDIA @ 4PM IN LOS ANGELES
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Claudia Rueda Released from Immigration Custody

All eyes on ICE to grant request for prosecutorial discretion

Los Angeles – Claudia was released on June 9, 2017 early afternoon, following over three weeks of detention. On Friday morning, an Immigration Court judge ordered beloved activist and Cal State LA student Claudia Rueda (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jxU3dGDCuTZnOg1GK8OgNfXAIoUb%2B5tj) released on her own recognizance from ICE custody in the for-profit CCA Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego California.

The judge indicated ICE's decision to hold Claudia without bond was "unduly severe" and ordered her released immediately.
Thank you for your support,
--
Marcela Hernandez
Deportation Defense Coordinator
Immigrant Youth Coalition
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CALL TO ACTION: SUPPORT ADELANTO HUNGER STRIKERS being ABUSED BY ICE & GEO


Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)

Dear Chris,

Support HUNGER STRIKERS in ADELANTO FACING ABUSE BY ICE & GEO!

http://action.ndlon.org/c/1509/images/june%202017%20adelanto%20hunger%20strike%20/Adelanto9%20Graphic%20.jpg

TODAY the Immigrant Youth Coalition along with he Human Rights Alliance for Child Refugees and Families, CIYJA, Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles (CARECEN-LA), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Pueblo Sin Fronteras is having a rally and Press conference/ #Adelanto9, 9 central American Asylum Seekers in Adelanto who started a Hunger Strike Monday and the 30 women who started a hunger strike, yesterday, June 14th.

Join on Live facebook stream: www.facebook.com/Immigrant.Youth.Coalition

At 5:30am on Monday, June 12th, a group of nine detained Central American asylum seekers launched a hunger strike in the Adelanto Detention Center in Victorville, California, an immigration detention center run by the private prison corporation GEO Group. That same day they were attacked by guards, handcuffed, pepper sprayed, beaten, and put in isolation! They said that the other prisoners shouted for the guards to stop, but they did not. They were taken to the nurse, but were denied medical care. One of the hunger strikers was thrown to the wall so hard his crowns and dentures came off.

The protesters say that they will remain on hunger strike until their demands, listed below, are met:

1. Release on recognizance as quickly as possible without inflated bond amounts
2. Bail set fairly for all prisoners
3. Due process for all refugee seeking political asylum
4. New and clean uniforms and undergarments for all incoming detainees
5. More time for religious services
6. No throwing away of detainees’ belongings
7. Translation of all paperwork in native languages
8. Clean water 24 hours a day
9. Better food for detainees

Before entering Adelanto, the hunger strikers were participants in a Viacrucis (caravan) of several hundred Central American refugees. They spent five weeks traveling through Mexico, organizing other refugees along the migrant trails and train lines during Holy Week, and denouncing the exclusion and mistreatment of migrants by both the Mexican and US governments.

In Wednesday June, 14, 2017, a group of nearly 30 women detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also started a hunger strike at Adelanto Detention Facility to protest conditions and their poor treatment at the largest for‐profit immigration detention facility in the country.

These are their demands:
1) The women want better medical care.
2) The women are protesting unreasonably high bond amounts set by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with no regard for a person’s ability to pay.
3) The women demand basic respect from the facility guards and ICE
4) The women, many of them mothers, want to be reunited with their children and families.

TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THE HUNGER STRIKERS!

MAKE A CALL

Los Angeles Field Office
Field Office Director: David Jennings
Assistant Field Office Director (Detention): Gabriel Valdez
Phone: (213) 830-7911
ICE @ Adelanto Detention Facility
Facility Main Telephone Line: (760) 561-6100
Field Office Main Telephone Line: (760) 561-6100
"My name is ________ (or I am a concerned community member from....), calling in support of the Adelanto 9, Central American Asylum seekers currently on a hunger strike. I call to denounce the abuse by ICE & GEO, demand this ABUSE STOP and that they released on their own recognizances immediately. Furthermore, I support all their other demands and urge you to meet them!"

SEND A TWEET

[email protected] STOP ABUSING #ADELANTO9 and 30+WOMEN on HUNGER STRIKE in Adelanto Detention Center! Release them on their own recognizes TODAY!
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In Solidarity,
--
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Deportation Defense Coordinator
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Chicago v. Trump


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Tell the Chicago City Council: Protect all immigrants from Trump’s hate (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/chicago_immigrants?t=2&akid=23620.247355.8Agyvb)

The petition to the Chicago City Council reads:

“Protect all of Chicago’s immigrants from Trump’s hate by strengthening the Welcoming City Ordinance so that Chicago police stop enabling deportations.”

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Dear Chris,

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Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is targeting nearly every undocumented immigrant for immediate deportation. Now is the time for Chicago to step up and fight back.

Chicago’s current Welcoming City Ordinance limits collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but it does not protect all immigrants from Trump’s hate. It leaves immigrants of color who have been targeted and criminalized by the racist Chicago Police Department (CPD) at extreme risk.

Chicago’s aldermen have the power to fix these dangerous loopholes and as city residents, we have the power to make sure they do. The city council could vote on whether to strengthen and expand Chicago’s immigrant protections as early as Wednesday. Will you add your support now to help keep the pressure on?

Tell the Chicago City Council: Protect all immigrants from Trump’s hate. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/chicago_immigrants?t=5&akid=23620.247355.8Agyvb)

The CPD has an appalling history of racism. A mayoral task force that investigated the department after the 2015 cover-up of the police murder of Laquan McDonald released a scathing report claiming that CPD’s own data gives validity to the widely held belief that the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color.1 A Department of Justice investigation at around the same time found that CPD’s use of "deadly force" was "unreasonable.”2

Right now, the Welcoming City Ordinance allows CPD officers to help ICE deport immigrants whom CPD has racially profiled and criminalized. CPD can collaborate with ICE in cases where immigrants have an open warrant, have been charged with a felony (even if they have not been convicted), have been convicted of a felony (regardless of how long ago it was), or who are in the CPD’s gang database.3

This is a recipe for disaster. People of color often have open warrants because they do not have the resources to resolve minor offenses, like traffic tickets, in complicated, rigged court systems.4 CPD targeting immigrants who were charged but never convicted of a crime is cruel and unacceptable. Prosecutors’ overuse of plea bargains, the pressures of the money bail system and decades of mandatory minimum sentencing have forced tens of thousands of people of color to plead guilty to felonies rather than face trial.5,6 And gang databases are notorious tools of racial profiling.7,8 These loopholes allow ICE and CPD to go after people who have essentially been targeted by police for “living in Chicago while black or brown.” The city council must close these loopholes now.

Last week, immigrants, allies, our friends at Mijente and others rallied in front of City Hall to demand that Chicago lawmakers strengthen immigrant protections. Help us keep up the pressure. Chicago’s aldermen have a choice: Plug loopholes in the Welcoming City Ordinance and protect all of Chicago’s immigrants from Trump’s hate or continue to help Trump’s rogue deportation force rip families apart and terrorize communities of color. Speak out now to make sure they do the right thing.

Tell the Chicago City Council: Protect all immigrants from Trump’s hate. Click the link below to sign the petition.

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/chicago_immigrants?t=7&akid=23620.247355.8Agyvb

Thank you for standing with Chicago’s immigrants,

Nicole Regalado, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets (http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=8&akid=23620.247355.8Agyvb)

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References:

Monica Davey and Mitch Smith, “Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds,” The New York Times, April 13, 2016.
Jason Hanna and Madison Park, “Chicago police use excessive force, DOJ finds,” CNN, Jan. 13, 2017.
Fran Spielman, “Immigrant groups want Welcoming City ordinance strengthened,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 26, 2017.
Nathan Robinson, “The Shocking Finding From the DOJ’s Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticed,” HuffPost, May 13, 2015.
Gretchen Gavett, “The Problem With Pleas,” PBS, Oct. 31, 2011.
Bill Quigley, “Fourteen Examples of Racism in Criminal Justice System,” HuffPost, May 25, 2011.
Jennifer Medina, “Gang Database Criticized for Denying Due Process May Be Used for Deportations,” The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2017.
Tony Briscoe, “Immigrant says he was wrongly placed in gang database, sues over arrest,” Chicago Tribune, May 2, 2017.


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‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Long-Term Fate Is Unclear

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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and VIVIAN YEEJUNE 16, 2017

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WASHINGTON — President Trump will not immediately eliminate protections for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as small children, according to new memorandums issued by the administration on Thursday night.

But White House officials said on Friday morning that Mr. Trump had not made a decision about the long-term fate of the program and might yet follow through on a campaign pledge to take away work permits from the immigrants or deport them.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that it would continue the Obama-era program intended to protect those immigrants from deportation and provide them with work permits so they can find legal employment.

A fact sheet posted on the department’s website says that immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “will continue to be eligible” to renew every two years, and notes that “no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.”

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A news release from the department said flatly that “the June 15, 2012, memorandum that created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will remain in effect.”

But officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday morning that those statements were intended only to clarify that immigrants enrolled in the DACA program would not immediately be affected by a separate action officially ending a similar program for undocumented immigrants whose children are citizens or legal permanent residents.

“There has been no final determination made about the DACA program, which the president has stressed needs to be handled with compassion and with heart,” said Jonathan Hoffman, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the department. He added that John F. Kelly, the secretary of Homeland Security, “has noted that Congress is the only entity that can provide a long-term solution to this issue.”

Immigration rights activists, who have fiercely battled Mr. Trump’s travel ban and increased enforcement of other immigration laws, initially hailed the announcement, calling it a surprising turn of events from Mr. Trump.

“This is a big victory for Dreamers amid months of draconian and meanspirited immigration enforcement policy,” said David Leopold, an immigration lawyer. “The preservation of DACA is a tribute to the strength of the Dreamer movement.”

But after the White House clarified its intent, activists expressed regret. Mr. Leopold said in a second statement that “it’s no surprise that Trump would quickly walk back the preservation of DACA.” He added that the administration was trying to “cynically pit 800,000 Dreamers against the rest of the 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

Cecilia Muñoz, who led President Barack Obama’s domestic policy council and oversaw immigration policy for the White House, said, “It is unfortunate that their status is still temporary, and their peace of mind not complete.”

A decision to maintain the DACA program would be a reversal from Mr. Trump’s anti-immigrant language during the campaign and would disappoint some of the president’s most ardent supporters, who view the program started by Mr. Obama as an illegal grant of amnesty.


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During the campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly agreed with that sentiment. At one rally last summer, Mr. Trump vowed to “immediately terminate” the program, saying that Mr. Obama had “defied federal law and the Constitution.”

But once in office, Mr. Trump faced a new reality: the political risks of targeting for deportation a group of people who are viewed sympathetically by many Americans. In some cases, the immigrants did not know they were in the country illegally. Many attended American schools from the time they were in kindergarten.

Asked repeatedly about his intentions for the program since he took office, the president has hinted that he would not try to deport the Dreamers. But immigration activists had remained worried that the administration might still eliminate the program.

On Friday, young immigrants who have gained legal status through the program were eager for clarity.

“My initial reaction was, ‘Well, what’s the catch?’” said Carlos Robles-Shanahan, 27, a business consultant in Chicago who is waiting for his deferred action status to be renewed. “It felt like it sounds too good to be true. If they gave us that, what did they take away?”

Born in Mexico, Mr. Robles-Shanahan and his two siblings followed their parents to the Chicago area in 2004, when they were children. He and his brother were arrested and detained by immigration officials while traveling to Boston by train in 2010, but were given a temporary reprieve from deportation. Joining the deferred action program two years later, he said, allowed him to obtain financial aid from his college, teach for a year through a fellowship, earn a master’s degree in public policy, get a white-collar job and buy a house for his mother.

“DACA changed a ton of stuff for me and my brother, exponentially,” he said. “It was like a switch.”

Mr. Robles-Shanahan recently married a United States citizen and has begun the process of applying for a green card, but fears that his ability to work and live in the country will be jeopardized if his deferred action status is not renewed.

Confirmation that the Trump administration planned to preserve the program would have given young immigrants some certainty that they could apply for deferred action or renew their status, said Rigo Rivera, 27, who crossed the Mexican border when he was 9 to join his parents in Alpharetta, Ga. Many have been afraid to apply for fear of putting their information in the hands of federal authorities.

“With Trump, we can expect anything. Tomorrow he can say that he wants to deport us,” he said. “I don’t know what to make of this, or what to believe.”

Mr. Rivera, a prep worker in a restaurant kitchen who also leads a group of young undocumented activists, received protected status in 2013, allowing him to obtain a driver’s license, a Social Security number and permission to work legally.

But he said he worried that he and other young immigrants in the program would not be protected from deportation even if Mr. Trump does not formally end DACA, because of several recent episodes in which people like him have been detained despite their participation in the program.

The announcement that the DACA program will continue for the time being, a decision that affects about 800,000 people in the United States, came as the administration formally ended Mr. Obama’s attempt to expand it to also cover the parents of Dreamers.

In 2015, Mr. Obama proposed an expansion of the program, called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which could have shielded as many as five million people from deportation and provided work permits to them as well.

That program was never put in place because a Texas court blocked it at the request of a coalition of 26 state attorneys general. The Supreme Court deadlocked, 4 to 4, on a challenge to that ruling, but the decision by the Trump administration officially ends the litigation.

Correction: June 17, 2017
An earlier version of this article, using information from a Department of Homeland Security news release and a separate fact sheet, referred incorrectly to the status of the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program is continuing for now; President Trump has not decided to keep it permanently, according to a clarification released by the administration. The headline repeated the error.

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Justice for Claudia Press Conference and Day of Action



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Dear Chris,

Join on Justice for Claudia Day of Action!

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Claudia went to her check-in appointment on Friday just to find out the office was actually closed and she had to come back Monday. ICE San Diego Field Office and ICE DC office can decide as early as TODAY if they will deport her!
Today, Monday, June 19th community, faith leaders, her attorney and community organization will stand with her at a press conference to accompany her to her first ICE Check-In, support the filing of her DACA application and DEMAND ICE STOP DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS!

TAKE ACTION! CALL, TWEET & SIGN THE PETITION AGAIN TODAY

Words from Claudia: “Thanks to your support I am free and with my family. I am so grateful for your support, this whole experience has been traumatic and it does not end. I still face possible deportation. Please help me make calls to urge the ICE Director to approve prosecutorial discretion, so my family can stay together”

Call


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Call Matthew T. Albence, Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, (ICE) & Tracy Short Principal Legal Advisor

(202) 732-5513

“I am a community member (friend, religious leader, from this organization) calling to urge you (Director Albence) and Tracy Short to approve Claudia Rueda’s (A#213-081-680) Prosecutorial Discretion package. She is a student at Cal State LA, DACA eligible youth and beloved member of her community, allow her to continue her education, life with her family here in the United States”

Call ICE San Diego Field Office
Phone: (619) 557-6117 (ask to speak to operator) or 619-338-3707
Call Script
“Hi, my name is ________________, and I am a concerned community member calling in support of Claudia Sarahi Rueda Vidal, (A# 213-081-680), a DACA eligible youth, college student and beloved community member from Boyle Heights. Claudia has been a mentor in the community. I call to urge Director Greg Archambault to grant Claudia prosecutorial discretion and release her immediately to her family and community” *Note- you don’t need to give your full name or phone number*


Tweet

[email protected] I urge Director Albence & Legal Advisor Tracy approve Claudia Rueda’s (A#213-081-680) Prosecutorial Discretion Request #Justice4Claudia


Sign Petition

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Thank you for your continous support!
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The number of people forced to flee their homes by war and persecution has risen to record levels for the third year running, with 65.6 million people displaced around the world – more than the population of Britain.


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Los Angeles, CA - Public school teachers at Roosevelt High School (RHS), joined by professors from Cal-State LA and students from RHS Magnet joined together to demand that authorities free 22-year-old Claudia Rueda.
Only a week after Rueda helped organize the successful fight to free her own mother, Teresa de Vidal Jaime, from custody, Rueda was taken from her home by ICE.
On June 8, Rueda’s mother Teresa, Rueda’s sister, her aunt, students, teacher, professors and community members all lined up to give testimony about Rueda being influential and inspiring. Organized by M.E.Ch.A de RHS, the United Teachers of LA union, ICE out of LA, and the Immigrant Youth Coalition, the event had a strong and energized turnout.
“I see myself when I look at Claudia,” said Edna Galvis, president of M.E.Ch.A de RHS. “Fighting for her mother, fighting for a better education, and helping lead her classmates against discrimination and attacks of ICE.”
RHS’s Marianna Ramirez, who was Rueda’s teacher said, “We must join when Claudia needs us more than ever!”
Teacher Arlene Inouye spoke of the Japanese concentration camps and about how her grandmother was taken from her home and put in the camps. Inouye insisted that organized efforts are the key to succeeding against ICE and deportations.
Rueda was in the middle of moving when sheriffs showed up at her door to detain her. Rueda was then transferred to the Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego. Efforts in LA, San Diego, as well as public outcry ultimately led to the freeing of Rueda on June 9. Rueda’s next steps are to have her case reviewed, and to be eligible for DACA.
The people united, will never be defeated.


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Minneapolis, MN - On June 23, the charges against Ariel Vences Lopez of ‘fare evasion,’ ‘obstruction of process’ and ‘providing a false name to police’ were dropped. This legal victory is one step in the campaign that immigrant rights and anti-police brutality activists are waging to stop the deportation of Vences Lopez and stop police harassment and brutality on Twin Cities public transit.
Vences Lopez was riding the blue line light rail train in Minneapolis on May 14 and gained national attention after a video posted to Facebook went viral. In the video, Metro Transit police officer Andy Lamers can be seen asking Vences-Lopez, “Are you here illegally?” during what appears to be a routine fare check. Minneapolis is supposed to be a ‘sanctuary city’ where police do not ask people about immigration status. Metro Transit, which has its own police force, claims to not ask about immigration status either, despite the viral video showing Lamers doing exactly that.
After protesting at the Met Council and pressing authorities about what happened, it became clear that after the video snippet showing officer Lamers questioning Vences-Lopez ended, he was then removed from the train, tased and then arrested. The charges from that arrest are the charges that were dropped today.
When Vences-Lopez was in custody at the Hennepin County Jail for these charges, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put a hold on him, after which he was transferred to ICE for deportation. He is still held by ICE pending deportation, with activists and lawyers working to stop his deportation. Getting the charges against Vences Lopez dropped is one step in that process.


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The deportation of roughly 200 Iraqi nationals was halted Monday by the Eastern Michigan District Court but, without a further decision, deportations will resume on July 6.

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6/28-CALL TO ACTION: #ADELANTO8 CONTINUE TO FACE TORTURE!


Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)


Dear Chris,

6/28-CALL TO ACTION:
#ADELANTO8 CONTINUE TO FACE TORTURE!

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One of the Adelanto 9 hunger strikers, Julio Valladares Jimenez, who was beaten, pepper-sprayed by guards, placed in solidarity and tortured with hot water has been deported! We honor his fight and continue standing with the Adelanto 8 Hunger Strikers.

#Adelanto8- Isaac Lopez Castillo, Marvin Grande Rodriguez, Alexander Burgos Mejia, Jose Cortez Diaz, Omar Rivera Martinez, Luis Pena Garcia, Julio Barahona Cornejo, Josue Lemus Campus continue their hunger strike and to face torture inside of Adelanto! Today we joined other community organizations in a press conference to demand FREE #ADELANTO8.

The Hunger Strikers’ central demands include:

• Immediate release from detention so they can continue their asylum cases in freedom

• Justice and dignity - accountability for the mistreatment they have suffered and a change in laws so that immigrants will no longer be discriminated against

• Reparation of damages - they are demanding that ICE & GEO repay them for the damage incurred when assaulted by guards on June 12

• We have been working with a coalition of organizations and we have the following updates:

• A complaint has been filed with the federal government about the attack committed by GEO Private Prison guards at the Adelanto Detention Center on hunger strikers.

• The hunger strikers and their attorneys are demanding a federal investigation

• There is a video of the attack, and the hunger strikers have been demanding the release of the video since the day of the attack

• ICE can release any of these immigrants at any time, and ICE is abusing its authority by using discretion to lock people up, separate families, promote violence and terrorize communities


WE MUST STAND WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T CONTINUE FACING TORTURED! Today a CARAVAN of faith leaders is at Adelanto attempting to visit them, you can also support in the following ways:

TAKE ACTION!


CALL:
ICE LA Field Office: (213) 830-7911

Sample Script:

"I am a calling in support of the Adelanto Hunger Strikers who continue to face torture at Adelanto Detention Center. We and urge ICE to The Hunger Strikers’ central demands include:

-Immediately release them our own recognizances

- Accountability for the mistreatment they have suffered

- Reparation of damages after the abuse they faced by guards on June 22nd”


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MORE ABOUT ADELANTO 9 HUNGER STRIKERS:

Adelanto9 began a hunger strike last Monday, have announced that they are re-launching their hunger strike on Thursday, June 22nd morning in the GEO Group-managed private prison Adelanto Detention Center. The asylum-seekers decided to resume the hunger strike after negotiations with ICE officials last week, in which the ICE negotiators lied about their agency’s role in keeping migrants detained with unreasonably high bonds. The hunger strike at Adelanto Detention Center resumes just three days after 35 women at the Northwest Detention Center began a hunger strike in a private immigration detention center also managed by GEO Group in Tacoma, Washington.

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The two bills slash federal funding for sanctuary cities and drastically expand sentences for immigrants with criminal records who are deported and attempt to reenter the US.

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BREAKING: DACA under attack


Chris Kaihatsu,

We just learned that Texas, along with 9 other Republican states, are threatening to sue if the Trump administration does not end DACA.

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I want to make one thing clear: DACA is still in effect. This news does not change that. We need to respond -- quickly. As a DACA recipient myself, I believe in our power. We will not let racist Republicans take away DACA. You and I have the power to defeat this. We are mobilizing as we speak to get you more details of how we are going to fight back. We need you, our community and our allies to fight for me and for the thousands like me. Can we count on you?

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Conservatives may want to take away our dignity and respect, but I am hopeful that our community and our allies will have our back.

We are fighting this. In the streets, in our communities -- in each and every state.

In strength,

Greisa, Director of Advocacy and Policy at United We Dream


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Minneapolis, MN - About 50 people gathered at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, June 29, to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reinstate Trump’s Muslim ban.
The Supreme Court’s ruling allows the ban on non-U.S. citizens for 90 days and refugees for 120 days if they come from the Muslim-majority countries of Libya, Syria, Iran, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan, unless they can establish a close relationship to someone living in the U.S.
The call for action was made by the Anti-War Committee, which also organized a protest that brought out 15,000 Minnesotans on Jan. 31, in response to Trump’s Muslim ban executive order.
Meredith Aby-Keirstad of the Anti-War Committee gave the opening speech, saying, "We are here today to say no not only to Trump’s racist Muslim ban but also to send a message to the U.S. Supreme Court. There is a real danger the court will uphold all or part of the ban as a legitimate use of the president’s powers. Only protests can prevent that from happening, or undo it if it does happen. Remember it was protests, not legal argument, that stopped the administration from implementing its discriminatory travel ban this year."
Maggie Kilgo, representing the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), stated, "Today immigrants, refugees and Muslims are under a vicious, mean-spirited attack. We in MIRAC are here to stand up to Trump’s attacks! The No More Deportations campaign has been fighting for years to stop deportations of thousands of our neighbors to Mexico, Central and South America, and we say no to attacks on Muslims, on immigrants and refugees. We are here today to say enough is enough. It is only by standing together and taking collective action that we can stop these attacks."
Skyler Dorr of Students Democratic Society spoke about the recent counter-protest to an anti-Muslim rally on June 10 at the Minnesota State Capitol. "Our country is more at risk of being taken over by ultra-conservative Christian law than anything else. It's almost as if there is an underlying racist reason of why we think of one code of law one way and another the other way. It's almost as if there are acts being put out by our president that are encouraging people to think this way, that are encouraging people to have racist protests. This ban gives fuel to the fire of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia."
Some chants from the crowd denouncing the ban were, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, the Muslim ban has got to go!" and "No Donald Trump, no KKK, no Muslim ban today!"
One common sentiment expressed was that we need to continue organizing to build a campaign for when the Supreme Court meets to hear arguments on the Muslim ban this October.


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Minneapolis, MN - On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court deviated from previous lower court rulings to allow portions of the Trump Muslim ban to go into effect. This new interim policy will allow the Trump administration to prevent travel for people from six Muslim majority countries - Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen - who lack a “bona fide relationship” with an American person or entity. The court also ruled that during this time, national security concerns related to these countries can take precedence over other obligations to accept refugees. The U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments on the travel ban in October.
The Minnesota Anti-War Committee will hold an Emergency Response Protest at 4:30 p.m. at the U.S. Federal Courts Building (300 .S 4th Street, Minneapolis) on Thursday, June 29, which is the day the order is to take effect.
Jennie Eisert of the Anti-War Committee explains the purpose of the protest, “Across the U.S., people protested every time the Trump administration tried their hand at pushing their racist and Islamophobic travel ban through, but multiple federal courts sided with the people. We need to make the Supreme Court strike down Trump’s racist Muslim ban. The court felt the public support for gay marriage and sided with the people. We need them to see the support for the Muslim community here in the U.S.”
Eisert continues, “Trump’s Muslim ban is racist and Islamophobic. The six majority-Muslim countries are being targeted because of U.S. foreign policy. These are all countries that the U.S. government is involved in militarily via third party or boots on the ground. These countries are majority Muslim and the Trump administration has painted Muslims as ‘terrorists’ since the presidential campaign. It is inhumane to deny Syrians and other refugees from war entry in the U.S. while the Trump administration escalates the conflict in their country.”
The MN Anti-War Committee has held multiple protests against the Trump Muslim ban, including a protest of 15,000 people in Downtown Minneapolis on Jan. 31.


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Labour’s proposals, which blame foreigners for the worsening social crisis, are a sign of the right-wing agenda being advanced in the coming election campaign.

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Several recent articles call for the Democratic Party to respond to the election of Trump by shifting further to the right on issues of immigration and “national identity.”

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The WSWS spoke with a recently deported Mexican immigrant about his experiences in detention facilities and life in Mexico after growing up in the US.

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More than 30 inmates awaiting deportation have gone on hunger strike protesting poor medical care and indefinite detention.

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TOMORROW: Press Conference & Rally to Support Adelanto Hunger Strikers


Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)


Dear Chris,

Press Conference & Rally to Support Adelanto Hunger Strikers
Friday, July 7th
10am
655 W Rialto Ave, San Bernardino

Biggest Adelanto Hunger Strike of 2017 Begins on 4th of July After Detainees Expose Cover-Up
Over 30 Detainees Refuse Meals, Demanding Lower Bonds and Medical Care

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Join a delegation of women representing the struggle of the Tacoma Hunger Strikers and various local organizations to raise our voices in solidarity of:

Victorville, CA- After several weeks of intermittent hunger strikes at the Adelanto Detention Center, the largest hunger strike yet began on the evening of July 4, when dozens of detainees launched a 72-hour hunger strike to protest high bonds, inadequate medical care, and political asylum. While previous hunger strikes by the #Adelanto9 primarily involved Salvadoran asylum-seekers, the current strike has spread to detainees from various nationalities, including a contingent of detained Haitians.
This letter is to inform you that on July 5th we will be beginning a 3-day hunger strike. The reasons that have brought us to organize this strike are as follows:

• “We believe that bonds are being set too high.”

• We are not demanding this on a whim, but rather asking that you understand our unique needs. Many of us have come fleeing from our countries due to different problems. We have had to cross 3 and in some cases 9 different national borders. We have been the victims of theft by different criminal groups that stole the little money we were able to bring with us.

• We need reasonable bond levels that allow us to leave prison and continue our legal cases outside.

• We believe that a reasonable bond might be between $1500 and $7500 and in many cases we should be able to be released on parole without any bond at all.

• We feel that we are being criminalized unfairly. Bond has been set at $15,000, $20,000, $35,000, even $50,000, in order to break our spirit so that we give up our rights to due process, or even worse to get us to accept voluntary deportation.


Among other important needs we have are:

• Tools that allow us to translate our documents to English so that our evidence is considered valid.

• More efficient medical care. At times we make our medical needs known by means of a kite [note to staff] and they don’t give them the attention they deserve.

• Lowering the bonds (currently $15,000, $20,000, $35,000, and $50,000) at least down to between $1500 and $7500.

• More consideration of our asylum cases. We are aware of cases where our Haitian brothers were deported and when they arrived in their country they were murdered. Some end up deported because they can’t pay the high bonds and others for not having enough evidence to present. But it is impossible for us to collect the necessary evidence for a successful case from behind bars.

The Southern California ACLU sent a letter to ICE over the weekend, expressing “serious concerns” regarding a “troubling pattern of retaliation against the detainees for exercising their constitutional right to free speech under the First Amendment.”

Join in solidarity with Adelanto Hunger Strikers!

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Marcela Hernandez
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St. Paul, MN - More than 30 people rallied outside the Whipple Federal Building and packed the immigration court hearing today, July 10, for Ariel Vences-Lopez. They were there to oppose his deportation and support his efforts to be released from immigration detention. Vences-Lopez was the subject of a viral video showing him being improperly questioned about his immigration status during light rail transit fare check.
Outside of the federal building, before and during the hearing, members of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB) and others held banners and signs reading “No more deportations.” They talked about the importance of supporting Ariel Vences-Lopez and about how his case is not an isolated incident, but just one example of the unjust immigration system that is deporting people and separating families every day.
At the hearing, the judge did not make a decision on setting Vences-Lopez’s bond, setting the next hearing for July 13 at 9 a.m. If the judge sets bond, then Vences-Lopez can get out of immigration detention while pursuing his efforts to avoid deportation and stay in the U.S.
Vences Lopez was riding the Blue Line light rail train in Minneapolis on May 14 and gained national attention after a video posted to Facebook went viral. In the video, Metro Transit police officer Andy Lamers can be seen asking Vences-Lopez, “Are you here illegally?” during what appears to be a routine fare check.
Minneapolis is supposed to be a ‘sanctuary city’ where police do not ask people about immigration status. Metro Transit, which has its own police force, claims to not ask about immigration status either, despite the viral video showing Lamers doing exactly that. In that incident, Vences-Lopez was tased three times, arrested, and then handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he was booked into Hennepin County Jail.
After Vences-Lopez’s hearing ended, Bruce Nestor, one of the lawyers on Ariel Vences-Lopez’s legal team, addressed supporters outside to explain what happened in the hearing. Nestor said, “The judge today would not take up the issue of bond separate from trying to determine what relief he might be eligible for before the immigration judge...the long and the short of it is that we’re going to come back on Thursday for a continued bond hearing and a continued master calendar hearing.”
Members of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) then announced another rally to support Vences-Lopez outside the Whipple Federal Building at 8:30 a.m. this Thursday, July 13.


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Albert Lea, MN - On July 9, activists with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee and the Unlawful Assembly marching band traveled in a caravan from Minneapolis to the Freeborn County Jail in Albert Lea an hour and a half south of the Twin Cities. They assembled with banners, chants and music to protest the county’s contract with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and offer moral support and uplifting music to ICE detainees and other inmates inside the detention center.
Freeborn County first signed a five-year contract with ICE in 2009, receiving $77 per day per inmate. The contract is lucrative - in some years generating as much as $2.5 million for the county’s social services, road maintenance and infrastructure. Freeborn County is one of four counties in Minnesota profiting from holding ICE detainees. Sherburne, Ramsey and Carver counties also have ICE contracts.
The rally demanded that Minnesota counties stop profiting off of contracts with ICE and that they stop deporting members of our communities. Stories were shared that denounced ICE for its practices of breaking up families, brutalizing those it detains, and forcibly removing people to life-threatening situations in their countries of origin. Local law enforcement was critiqued for using racist policing tactics to profile, detain and deport immigrants and for producing profit by trafficking in human lives.
The protesters challenged local government and residents to end the silence and begin a conversation about the moral foundations of their local economy. The demonstration offered music and moral support to inmates, and raised local awareness regarding the rural nature of racialized border enforcement and the collusion between Minnesota counties and ICE.
Demands included:


No More Deportations: We will not continue in silence while community members are held for profit in jails funded by Minnesota residents.
Break the Contract: Freeborn County is currently renewing contracts with ICE on a yearly basis. We demand they not renew this contract.
Sanctuary State: It has become clear that Sanctuary City statuses in Minnesota have a limited effect as immigrants without citizenship status continue being detained in the Twin Cities area and other parts of the state and held in these four county jails. Counties around the state, including Hennepin County, continue notifying ICE when immigrants enter their jails. We demand an end to county cooperation with ICE statewide.

See video from the protest here:




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“My mother and father are in the US, and all of my friends. I feel like a foreigner in ‘my own’ country.”

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Grandparents, other extended relatives exempt from Trump travel ban, federal judge rules

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Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin speaks at a news conference in Hono*lulu about President Trump's travel ban. (Caleb Jones/AP)

By Matt Zapotosky July 14 at 11:24 AM

Grandparents and other extended relatives are exempt from President Trump’s travel ban, a federal judge in Hawaii declared late Thursday, again stopping the administration from implementing the president’s controversial executive order in the way that it wants.

U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson wrote that the government’s “narrowly defined list” of who might be exempt was not supported by either the Supreme Court decision partially unfreezing the ban or by the law.

“Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents,” Watson wrote. “Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members. The Government’s definition excludes them. That simply cannot be.”

Watson wrote that refugees with an assurance from a resettlement agency could also be exempt from the ban.

[Travel ban takes effect as State Department defines ‘close family’]

Which family members could visit under the travel ban VIEW GRAPHIC
A Justice Department spokeswoman said the department would likely have a statement on the ruling later Friday and referred other questions to the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, which she said had issued communications to their field offices.

Department of Homeland Security and State Department spokespeople said their agencies were reviewing the decision with the Department of Justice to work on implementation.

At issue is how far the administration can go in keeping relatives of U.S. residents out under the president’s travel ban, which temporarily bars entry for all refugees and the issuance of new visas to residents of six Muslim-majority countries.

The Supreme Court ruled late last month that the government could begin enforcing the measure, but not against those with “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship” with a person or entity in the United States.

The court offered only limited guidance on what type of relationship would qualify. “Close familial” relationships would count, the court said, as would ties such as a job offer or school acceptance letter that were “formal, documented, and formed in the ordinary course.”

The administration said it would let into the United States from the six affected countries parents, parents-in-law, siblings, spouses, children, sons and daughters, fiances, and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law of those already here.

Still banned, however, were grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. And the administration also said it would keep out refugees who had a formal assurance from a resettlement agency.

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The state of Hawaii, which has been suing over the travel ban, soon asked Watson to intervene.

The district judge had initially ruled against Hawaii in the case, telling it to go straight to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit also rebuffed the state’s request, although it offered a way forward: Watson, the appeals court said, would have jurisdiction over a reframed request. Hawaii then filed such a request, setting up Watson’s ruling Thursday — which allows those the government had wanted to keep out to come in.

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas S. Chin said in a statement, “The federal court today makes clear that the U.S. Government may not ignore the scope of the partial travel ban as it sees fit. Family members have been separated and real people have suffered enough. Courts have found that this Executive Order has no basis in stopping terrorism and is just a pretext for illegal and unconstitutional discrimination. We will continue preparing for arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in October.”

The government had argued that it drew its definition of who counted as a close family member from immigration law. The ruling is a blow to the administration, although it almost certainly won’t be the last word on the case. Both those suing over the ban and the government lawyers defending it indicated earlier they thought the question of who could properly be kept out after the Supreme Court unfroze the ban was a matter destined for appellate courts.

And while the Supreme Court partially unfroze Trump’s travel ban, it did so only temporarily, indicating it would truly take up the case in the fall. By that time, the bans might have expired. The barring of new visas to those from six countries is supposed to last 90 days, and the barring of refugees is supposed to last 120 days.

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All of the personal information needed to carry out deportations of those who applied under the DACA program is now in the hands of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Albert Lea, MN - On July 9, activists with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee and the Unlawful Assembly marching band traveled in a caravan from Minneapolis to the Freeborn County Jail in Albert Lea an hour and a half south of the Twin Cities. They assembled with banners, chants and music to protest the county’s contract with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and offer moral support and uplifting music to ICE detainees and other inmates inside the detention center.
Freeborn County first signed a five-year contract with ICE in 2009, receiving $77 per day per inmate. The contract is lucrative - in some years generating as much as $2.5 million for the county’s social services, road maintenance and infrastructure. Freeborn County is one of four counties in Minnesota profiting from holding ICE detainees. Sherburne, Ramsey and Carver counties also have ICE contracts.
The rally demanded that Minnesota counties stop profiting off of contracts with ICE and that they stop deporting members of our communities. Stories were shared that denounced ICE for its practices of breaking up families, brutalizing those it detains, and forcibly removing people to life-threatening situations in their countries of origin. Local law enforcement was critiqued for using racist policing tactics to profile, detain and deport immigrants and for producing profit by trafficking in human lives.
The protesters challenged local government and residents to end the silence and begin a conversation about the moral foundations of their local economy. The demonstration offered music and moral support to inmates, and raised local awareness regarding the rural nature of racialized border enforcement and the collusion between Minnesota counties and ICE.
Demands included:


No More Deportations: We will not continue in silence while community members are held for profit in jails funded by Minnesota residents.
Break the Contract: Freeborn County is currently renewing contracts with ICE on a yearly basis. We demand they not renew this contract.
Sanctuary State: It has become clear that Sanctuary City statuses in Minnesota have a limited effect as immigrants without citizenship status continue being detained in the Twin Cities area and other parts of the state and held in these four county jails. Counties around the state, including Hennepin County, continue notifying ICE when immigrants enter their jails. We demand an end to county cooperation with ICE statewide.

See video from the protest here:




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St. Paul, MN - More than 30 people rallied outside the Whipple Federal Building and packed the immigration court hearing today, July 10, for Ariel Vences-Lopez. They were there to oppose his deportation and support his efforts to be released from immigration detention. Vences-Lopez was the subject of a viral video showing him being improperly questioned about his immigration status during light rail transit fare check.
Outside of the federal building, before and during the hearing, members of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB) and others held banners and signs reading “No more deportations.” They talked about the importance of supporting Ariel Vences-Lopez and about how his case is not an isolated incident, but just one example of the unjust immigration system that is deporting people and separating families every day.
At the hearing, the judge did not make a decision on setting Vences-Lopez’s bond, setting the next hearing for July 13 at 9 a.m. If the judge sets bond, then Vences-Lopez can get out of immigration detention while pursuing his efforts to avoid deportation and stay in the U.S.
Vences Lopez was riding the Blue Line light rail train in Minneapolis on May 14 and gained national attention after a video posted to Facebook went viral. In the video, Metro Transit police officer Andy Lamers can be seen asking Vences-Lopez, “Are you here illegally?” during what appears to be a routine fare check.
Minneapolis is supposed to be a ‘sanctuary city’ where police do not ask people about immigration status. Metro Transit, which has its own police force, claims to not ask about immigration status either, despite the viral video showing Lamers doing exactly that. In that incident, Vences-Lopez was tased three times, arrested, and then handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he was booked into Hennepin County Jail.
After Vences-Lopez’s hearing ended, Bruce Nestor, one of the lawyers on Ariel Vences-Lopez’s legal team, addressed supporters outside to explain what happened in the hearing. Nestor said, “The judge today would not take up the issue of bond separate from trying to determine what relief he might be eligible for before the immigration judge...the long and the short of it is that we’re going to come back on Thursday for a continued bond hearing and a continued master calendar hearing.”
Members of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) then announced another rally to support Vences-Lopez outside the Whipple Federal Building at 8:30 a.m. this Thursday, July 13.


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Any immigrant, picked up anywhere in the country, who is unable to prove residence in the US for the past 90 days, could be summarily deported.

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New studies show a link between severe health problems among immigrants, and anxieties caused by the US anti-immigrant policies under the Bush, Obama and now Trump administrations.

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Parts of the camp have been demolished and the Internet facility was taken away, leaving mobile phones as the only connection for detainees to the outside world.

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Workers under the H-2 program are subjected to starvation wages and harsh working conditions.

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The 30 survivors of the horrific tragedy will likely be thrown into detention centers and promptly deported without the right to appear before a judge.

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The corporate media is saying nothing about the government officials, business interests and politicians who bear the overriding responsibility for these deaths.

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As a result of the brutal raids, thousands of youth will be deported to the most violent countries in the world in what will amount to a death sentence for many.

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The future of the Iraqis, many of whom are Chaldean Christians, is far from certain.

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The “MP fiasco” is intensifying the political instability produced by the growing collapse of popular support for the major parties.

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The Italian government is demanding that NGOs involved in the rescue of refugees sign a “Code of Conduct,” restricting their activities in the Mediterranean Sea.

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The crackdown on immigrants paves the way for a police-state regime and attacks on workers more broadly.

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In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the United States delivered a clear and chilling message: He thinks that unauthorized immigrants are subhuman, and that law enforcement should treat them accordingly.


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Two-thirds of the US population lives in a “Constitution-free zone,” where anyone, including citizens, can be detained and questioned by federal immigration agents.

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Defending the move at a press conference, Trump’s fascistic aide Stephen Miller denounced CNN for having a “cosmopolitan bias” in a thinly-veiled anti-Semitic attack.

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Congressman Juan Vargas hosted an Immigration Town Hall in San Diego that amounted to advice on how to ensure a smooth deportation.

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