Restaurants and businesses close; Resistance takes to the streets Photo Credit: NM Dream Team on Twitter In response to Trump’s executive orders on immigration and recent raids in which nearly 700 undocumented people have been arrested, immigrants and allies go on strike today for #ADayWithoutImmigrants. From Bustle, Rewire, Fusion,
“We’ve created a model policy.” Photo credit: Jan Meslin Last night, the Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution to make Santa Ana the first Sanctuary city in Orange County, California. It also voted to eventually terminate its contract with ICE to detain immigrants at the
Image from 2016 documentary, Dear President Obama The President. The White House. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500. Subject: Plea for mercy and an end to immigrant detention and deportation Dear President Obama, During your time in office, thousands of men, women, and children have been held in
Groundbreaking website uplifts the stories of immigrants in long-term detention in advance of the Supreme Court argument in Jennings v. Rodriguez Bridging the gap between legal and community advocacy, the Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) at the New York University School of Law, in partnership with Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants
Artwork by Marcela Castro We are disturbed and disheartened by the deep racial and cultural divisions that drove this election. We have seen remarkable levels of xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, and racism. To be clear, President-elect Donald Trump has declared war on immigrants and on the social justice movement as a
Read Cesar’s Story and Sign and Share his Petition Cesar Leyva with his six-year-old son We are asking the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) to parole Cesar Leyva back into the United States to be reunited with his son, siblings, and community after an unjust
#ShutDownAdelanto demonstration at Adelanto Detention Facility, August 20, 2016. Photo credit: Paula Kahn. #### Immigration detention has a long history in the United States, dating back to the late 1800s, but the practice of systematically detaining asylum seekers as prisoners has only resurfaced recently. “I want to tell you some things
