The Obama deportation machine has come under fire recently for ramping up the deportation of immigrants with strong family ties and little or no criminal record. Not only is there a moral imperative to stop separating American immigrant families with these practices, but there’s a fiscal one as well:...
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Eleven activists in Chicago were arrested yesterday after an act of civil disobedience outside Broadview Detention Center, where they sat in the street with linked arms and blocked traffic in order to protest deportations. The arrests were part of a two-day march beginning on Monday night from ICE’s downtown...
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Immigrant Advocates from Northern and Southern Borders Discuss Facts and Faces Behind DHS “Priorities” in Light of NYT and TRAC Studies In a conference call today with reporters, immigration experts and community leaders reacted to the latest reports about who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is actually deporting,...
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On the heels of a front-page New York Times story on immigration and deportations this week, Michael C. Bender at Bloomberg News today also takes a look at data from ICE. Contrary to what the Obama Administration claims, a substantial number of deportations target immigrants who would qualify for legislative...
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Pressure on President Obama to address his record rate of deportations is intensifying, from all corners of the pro-immigration reform world. According to Greg Sargent at the Washington Post, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is releasing a memo that calls upon the President to stop deporting those who would qualify...
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President Obama recently ordered a review of deportations, looking for ways to make the US immigration system more humane. But as we and others have pointed out, we already know a lot of what needs to be fixed. Case in point, in an op-ed at the Los Angeles Times today, former Acting...
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Earlier this week, we wrote about an act of civil disobedience in Gadsden, Alabama, where advocates chained themselves to the front doors of the Etowah County Detention Center. About 100 demonstrators carried banners and chanted slogans, and seven were arrested. But as the Huffington Post lifts up today, the...
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The following is a press release from the #Not1More campaign: Seven undocumented Alabama residents and supporters locked themselves together to block the entrance of the Etowah County Detention Center as part of the national #Not1more campaign demanding that the President use his executive authority to stop deportations. The blockade is currently...
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Since late last year, we’ve been trying to tell the story of Maria Perez and her deported husband, Brigido Acosta-Luis. Last fall, Brigido was deported and forcibly separated from his family after more than a decade of living and working in the country. In the last few months, Maria...
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The Washington Post editorialized about immigration reform this weekend: IN BLOCKING immigration reform in the House of Representatives, Republicans have frozen in place a system that much of the nation, and many in the GOP, regard as an exemplar of American dysfunction. Hence the irony that so many Republicans...
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