From the Project on Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org/): (Photo: The Seattle Globalist / Flickr) Hundreds of thousands of people are held for varying amounts of time in America’s privately run detention centers every year. Want to know how well these private facilities are … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/03/senators-tweetstorm-shows-stark-human-toll-trump-immigration-crackdown Published on Wednesday, May 03, 2017 by Common Dreams ‘The gangs will target this mother and her child the moment they land in Honduras, yet Trump admin insists on this cruel policy’ By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer … Continued
From HIAS (https://www.hias.org/): The Trump Administration has indicated it may put thousands of people at risk for deportation to Haiti. We urgently need your help to make sure that doesn’t happen. After a devastating earthquake in 2010, over 50,000 Haitians … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): Last week we got word that the Bureau of Appeals decided that because the PA DHS had licensed the Berks Detention Center for many years, and the County spent money to expand, … Continued
From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): 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 … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): We at the Center for American Progress just put out the 2017 edition of our compendium of all of the facts you need about immigrants and refugees. The 50-page guide is full of … Continued
Federal Budget: Invest in Supporting Families, Not Separating Them From the PICO National Network (http://www.piconetwork.org): Right now, Senate and House leadership are discussing what to do with your tax dollars. On top of the $20 billion already given to Homeland … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): Beginning in January, Pennsylvania legislators joined the White House in attacking immigrant and refugee communities. They started the year in the Senate by introducing and voting on SB10, a bill attempting to … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Popular Democracy has created a toolkit to help guide cities through the process of creating sanctuary policies. It is directed especially towards elected officials, but should be helpful for advocates and organizers too. There … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): On Good Friday, Maribel Trujillo Diaz, a Catholic mom of four from Fairfield, Ohio, was sitting in a Louisiana detention center awaiting her deportation. Right now, thousands of immigrant mothers like Maribel are being … Continued