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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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
BY CHERYL LITTLE MARCH 28, 2019 07:03 PM, UPDATED APRIL 01, 2019 02:41 PM We recently learned that in addition to the more than 2,700 children that the Trump administration has acknowledged were separated from their families at the border, thousands more families were likely separated. U.S. immigration policy continues to tear apart families in many ways, creating trauma from which …
