DNC March Says to be the “Anti-Trump,” Clinton & Dems Must Halt Deportations

DNC March Says to be the “Anti-Trump,” Clinton & Dems Must Halt Deportations

July 25, 2016

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Puro Philadelphia #Not1More #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/iitidzR7T3

— Not1More (@Not1_More) July 25, 2016

On the first day of the DNC, 500 people marched to demand Democrats be the “anti-Trump” on immigration. That means the candidates calling for an immediate moratorium on deportations, DHS shutting down the Berks family detention center 60 miles west of Philadelphia, and the President dismantling the expansion of ICE to actively demonstrate their expressed commitment to immigrant rights and to stand in sharp contrast to the attacks launched by Clinton’s opponent during his acceptance speech.

Before it was an issue taken up by candidates, immigrant rights groups were already pushing the President to make immigration policy more humane. After the Supreme Court allowed the injunction on the deferred action deportation relief program to continue in US vs Texas, the national #Not1More campaign launched a petition that now has over 50,000 individual signatures calling on the President to act on immigration and issue a moratorium on deportations. Read more

Teachers Interrupt Clinton/Obama Event in State Where High Schoolers Were Raided

July 5, 2016

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The same day that the New York Times released an editorial naming the release of raided students as an urgent item for the President to take up, students of those teachers interrupted a campaign event of Candidate Clinton and President Obama in North Carolina, a state hit hard by recent ICE raids, calling for their release. Below is their statement.

President Obama & Former Sec. of State Clinton: Stop Deporting Our Students. Release Them Now.
#FreeWildin and Free all 12+ NC & GA youth jailed by ICE

We come here today as teachers, students and community members to demand that President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton release all detained refugee youth back to their classrooms and communities.

Immigration enforcement agents are operating unchecked: raiding refugee families, snatching kids at bus stops, deporting youth back to gang violence, and holding students in detention centers and deportation proceedings for nearly 6 months. ICE is denying our students their right to an education and preventing many from graduating. Read more

Teenage Girl Takes Street to Ask Gutierrez to Be Champion for Father in Sanctuary, Call for Moratorium on Deportations

June 30, 2016

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All activists arrested #Not1More @OCAD_CHI @CRLN_LA @icirr @CommsUnited @AAAJ_Chicago pic.twitter.com/SC60rESboo

— Ervin Solidarity (@fairtrade_Ervin) June 30, 2016

No DACA, NO DEPORTACIONES! right now, blocking streetwise front of Congressman Gutierrez office #Not1More pic.twitter.com/2073jIlVK0

— Ervin Solidarity (@fairtrade_Ervin) June 30, 2016

BREAKING: Street blocked by activists calling to end deportation #Not1More @OCAD_CHI @ChicagoRising pic.twitter.com/q75M5qtLPD

— Ervin Solidarity (@fairtrade_Ervin) June 30, 2016

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BREAKING: Philadelphia Main Expressway Entrance Blocked by Immigration Protest

June 28, 2016

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Daughter comforting her mother as she blocks 676 in Philadelphia #Not1More #DismantleICE pic.twitter.com/pkevW1aR2i

— Juntos (@Vamos_Juntos_) June 28, 2016

BREAKING: Philadelphia blocks main expressway to call for #MoratoriumNow. https://t.co/3T3MVZSlIM #Not1More pic.twitter.com/uCEvG06NqJ

— Not1More (@Not1_More) June 28, 2016

Letter to DNC Platform Committee: Don’t Let Mass Incarceration Exclude Immigrants from Reforms

June 28, 2016

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The #Not1More campaign sent the following letter to members of the DNC platform committee asking them to ensure that mass incarceration does not exclude people from future immigration reforms. While on the one hand, the administration discusses a “nation of second chances,” it criminalizes with saying it deports “felons not families” on the other.

The party has the opportunity to reconcile that contradiction and make sure that criminal justice reforms are applied to immigration policy as well.

BREAKING: Hartford Protest is 2nd Today to Block ICE, Demand Moratorium

June 27, 2016

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BREAKING: Atlanta Blocks ICE to Demand Moratorium on Deportations

June 27, 2016

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Can President Obama Still Stop Deportations?

June 24, 2016

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Photo credit: Diane Ovalle

Questions & Answers on the Call for a Moratorium post-Supreme Court Decision

By: Tania Unzueta, Policy & Legal Director

After the 4-4 ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States failed to lift the injunction expanding the deferred action programs, President Obama stated in a nationally televised press conference that he did not expect further executive actions on immigration to be feasible before the end of his presidency.[1]

He stated that the only alternative is to pressure Congress to pass immigrant rights legislation and focus on getting a good candidate in the November election.

So, why are we calling for a moratorium on deportations from President Obama?

Immigrants Demand Moratorium on Deportations as Supreme Court Fails to End Partisan Attack on DAPA

June 23, 2016

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In response to the Supreme Court decision in Texas vs US, the case of 26 Republican governors suing to block the deferred action programs announced in November, 2014, immigrant communities across the country are calling on President Obama and DHS to take further action and for his potential successors to take up their call.