When ICE or CBP agents show up at someone’s door, they can, and often do, lie and identify themselves as police. That’s a major problem in many immigrant communities. Immigration agents misidentifying themselves as regular police seriously erodes trust in … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): CLASP condemns the Administration’s raids on immigrant families. These enforcement actions will severely undermine immigrant children’s healthy development. Our research shows that children in immigrant families live in constant fear that a parent will be deported. Raids … Continued
Posted at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/14/1871786/-Trump-s-Waffle-SS-fail-their-immigration-raids This information is from the ACLU. Don’t open the door. Opening the door does not give the agents permission to come inside, but it is safer to speak to ICE through the door. Ask the agents what they … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): Right now, families are sitting in fear threatened by raids. Children are suffering in camps along the border. Babies are dying as their parents try to carry them to safety. The administration’s cruel family … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): NOTE: While this didn’t actually happen over the past weekend, this is good information to have. You have probably seen press accounts that the Administration plans to carry out mass arrests to speed … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): As people of faith, we have a moral calling to stand with our undocumented siblings in times of fear and turmoil. As we have seen, this administration has been threatening the immigrant community in recent … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): We invite faith leaders to sign on to an important letter urging Members of Congress to support the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act of 2019 (HR 1011), which would expand and codify the Department of Homeland … Continued
From Mijente (https://mijente.net/): Today we’re sharing two things with you. We launched a nation-wide investigation into ICE and we’re sharing new tools to prepare to protect and defend each other against raids. Last week reporters confirmed and then cancelled rumors … Continued
Are police body cameras designed to scrutinize police work? Photo via Utility, Inc. By Matt Stroud, Criminal justice researcher, ACLU of Pennsylvania I thought I’d misheard him. At a Duquesne University conference on a Friday afternoon in late January, John … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Despite continued outcry from faith communities and immigrants’ rights groups, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has restarted workplace and home invasion raids, carrying out President Trump’s recent executive orders to build a wall across the U.S. southern … Continued