🚨🚨Friday Alert! We have nearly 50 newly detained women who speak Brazilian Portuguese in need of immediate legal services. We are short on interpreters in Brazilian Portuguese! Any volunteers? They are separated from family and need protection and freedom! DM me! @aldea_pjc
ICYMI, I did a thread on arguably the most important shift in border policy in the 20th century; the 1994 "Prevention Through Deterrence" strategy, the first time the US explicitly tried to "fully close" all borders.
The plan didn't work, and the ramifications are still with us.
Chelsea's colleagues recognize her as a leader, a teacher, a mentor, a fighter, a friend, an excellent person and attorney -- and her clients do too.
It is tragic that @ImmDef's Leadership only sees Chelsea as "divisive" and "a trouble maker."
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BREAKING: The Biden administration is planning to stop the use of a Trump-era policy that forced migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico after a Supreme Court ruling said the government could unwind the program, according to two US government officials.
Story soon.
A great opportunity staring us in the face. LA City Hall and LA County must act swiftly on this one. Thank you @GustavoArellano for this excellent @latimes Column:
Can a giant, empty Sears building help solve homelessness in Los Angeles? https://t.co/zpqAvV1SJj
Promise: End private immigration detention contracts
Reality: Number of people in detention up by 56% since last January
@POTUS, this is on you. More are harmed and placed at risk every day your administration fails to act.
#FreeThemAll
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I'm starting to sound like a broken record. But as omicron surges in ICE detention--a 520% increase in the last two weeks--the Biden administration must immediately release people.
And yes, ICE has only given boosters to 671 of 22K+ detainees.
https://t.co/jYmiNLG9Lp
Today, we alongside @UndocuBlack and @AfricansUS filed a FOIA request seeking details on how agencies managed the encampment in Del Rio, including info on how horses & vehicles were used. We demand transparency + accountability as we continue to #DefendBlackImmigrants.
NEW!
BAJI, @HaitianBridge, @UndocuBlack & @AfricansUS have filed a complaint w/ @DHSgov Office of Civil Rights + Civil Liberties demanding that potential witnesses to @CBP abuses be allowed to remain in/returned to the US during any investigation.
Immigration law is easy. You just need to know the INA, the CFR, uncodified imm statutes (e.g. NACARA, VTVPA, CAA), admin precedents, circuit case law, counter-intuitive agency policies & procedures, local office quirks, & multiple former (non-retroactive) versions of the above.
Based on procedural grounds, US Supreme Court keeps alive the "Remain in Mexico Policy". The US and Mexico Gvnts should make every effort to discontinue this policy which seriouly violates the human rights of asylum-seekers.
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🔴 Columna | La escritora Brenda Lozano (@heraclesmigato) habla por primera vez después de la polémica por su nombramiento como agregada cultural de México en España en un texto que publica EL PAÍS
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I worked on this story for months about two Black midwives bettering life from the core, improving births for mothers and infants. They opened LA’s only Black-owned birth centers and in a time when fears and deaths from COVID-19 were spiking https://t.co/bCNaTjqNh7
New @latimes story on #KindredSpaceLA. To learn more about their work, tune into our latest episodes at https://t.co/jd6zzsPQ5s or your fav podcast app!
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