MANUEL MADRID | JUNE 27, 2019 | 8:00AM Months before President Donald Trump announced plans for massive immigration raids, members of his administration were busy cooking up plans to deport asylum-seeking families released into the United States. Their solution? Create expedited dockets for newly arrived families in ten immigration courts in cities including Miami, Houston, San Francisco, and Chicago. These « rocket dockets » fast-track the …
SUNDIAL’S IMMIGRATION TOWN HALL: HOMESTEAD DETENTION FACILITY ‘A DARK ABYSS’ – WLRN
By ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ & CHRIS REMINGTON JUN 25, 2019 Democratic candidates are in South Florida ahead of the first Democratic presidential debates taking place Wednesday and Thursday nights in Miami. The topic of immigration is already front and center. Candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, and Eric Swalwell, a representative from California, have planned visits to the Homestead Childhood Detention Facility, …
13 CELEBRITIES WHO DONATED THEIR TIME AND MONEY TO FIGHT FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS – INSIDER
Libby Torres Jun. 25, 2019, 5:50 PM With conditions for immigrants at the border quickly becoming controversial, many celebrities are donating to organizations like the ACLU or Texas-based nonprofit RAICES that are working to help immigrants in need. Celebrities have also been quick to use their platforms (especially on social media) to speak out against the conditions at the border as …
CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE DYING AT THE BORDER. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP. – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Speak up. Donate. Educate yourself. Vote. By The Editorial Board June 24, 2019 The United States needs an immigration policy that combines border security, justice and humanity. No one with a conscience can look at the photo of an asylum seeker and his 23-month-old daughter lying dead on the bank of the Rio Grande and accept the status quo. That single tragedy, reminiscent …
5 WAYS TO HELP MIGRANT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES RIGHT NOW – ELLE
BY ROSE MINUTAGLIO AND MADISON FELLER JUN 24, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likened detention centers at the U.S. border to « concentration camps » during an Instagram live last week and followed up her statement with a series of tweets calling to #CloseTheCamps and #AbolishICE. Her comments ignited a debate over whether the term « concentration camp » was the appropriate nomenclature for the facilities where migrant children are being taken from their families …
IMMIGRATION DETENTION IS BIG BUSINESS – AJ+
By Daniel Alvarenga June 20, 2019 AI Justice Detention Program Director, Jessica Shulruff Schneider discusses the inhumane conditions inside immigration detention facilities with Daniel Alvarenga from AJ+. Watch via AJ+ here.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION THREAT – THE INTERCEPT
MARYAM SALEH JUNE 18 2019, 6:25 P.M. IN BETWEEN TWEETS complaining about Fox News polling numbers and boasting about the size of future rallies, President Donald Trump took a moment on Monday to send shock waves through immigrant communities with a threat meant to rally his base — but one that is not actually logistically possible. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal …
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO MIGRANT KIDS: NO MORE ART, SOCCER, LAWYERS OR SCHOOL FOR YOU – MIAMI HERALD
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JUNE 05, 2019 07:31 PM For the kids at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied migrants, many of whom endured unimaginable hardships on their journey to the United States, life is about to get a lot more austere. The Trump administration abruptly announced Wednesday it would dramatically cut aid to detention centers that house migrant children who …
ICE SET TO DEPORT SOMALIS WHO WERE RETURNED TO U.S. ON INFAMOUS BOTCHED FLIGHT – THE INTERCEPT
MARYAM SALEH APRIL 9 2019, 3:57 P.M. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement is planning on Thursday to deport a number of Somali immigrants who were part of an infamous botched deportation flight in December 2017, according to their legal team. During the trip, the deportees said, they experienced verbal and physical abuse at the hands of ICE officers, and they have been …
FEDS STONEWALL ON CHARGES THAT DETAINEES ARE CHAINED ALL DAY, EVEN IN THERAPY – MIAMI NEW TIMES
BRITTANY SHAMMAS | APRIL 1, 2019 | 7:42AM For years, South Florida detainees have told lawyers with the nonprofit Americans for Immigrant Justice about abusive and unlawful mental health treatment behind bars, including almost round-the-clock physical restraint and monitoring. Based on those claims, the Miami group in January 2017 requested contracts and other documents related to what goes on inside local detention facilities. But U.S. …