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AJ+ Border Stories: Don’t Deport My Parents

AJ+ Border Stories: Don’t Deport My Parents

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Democracy Now: Civil Disobedience is Survival

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Democracy Now: Undocumented Father Takes Sanctuary in Chicago Southside Church


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Teachers of Raided Students Interrupt DHS Secretary at Commencement Speech

In the wake of the reports that the Department of Homeland Security is gearing up for a 30 day offensive targeting refugee mothers and children, the teachers of 9 high schoolers who have been held in detention since early 2016 interrupted Sec. Johnson at a commencement speech in Nashville, TN.

“We want to see our students graduate but that’s impossible when ICE agents stalk them outside their houses and DHS refuses to release them from detention,” explains Holly Hardin, a teacher who traveled from Durham, North Carolina, to confront Johnson. “Johnson has no business addressing high schoolers about their future when he’s thrown the future of refugee teens into jeopardy.”


Teachers and Students Tell Johnson to Stop the Raids

Sec. Johnson reacts to interrupters.


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Clinton forced to answer detention question

Shout from Crowd Forces Family Detention into Clinton Townhall

Erika Almiron, executive director of Juntos and the woman who forced the detention question into the townhall explained the rationale behind her question: “You can’t be for women and not actively working to free the mothers at Berks from detention. The Obama Administration is operating the facility without a license and we wanted to see not what Clinton promises for the future but what she’s doing now for the women inside.”


Chicago Church Opens its Doors in Sanctuary to Father Being Pursued by ICE

 

Jose Juan, Father of 5, Asks for Sanctuary in Chicago Southside Church
On Day Supreme Court Hears DAPA

Inability to Find a Ten Year Old Documents Puts Family in Jeopardy

Chicago, IL – Jose Juan Federico Moreno, a father of 5 United States citizen children, announced today that he will be seeking sanctuary from deportation in University Church on Chicago’s South Side, on the same day that the Supreme Court of the United States begins to hear arguments on the President’s deferred action program to stop the deportation of parents of U.S. citizens. Read more


What Should’ve Been on Trial Today is Cruelty

Today is a historic moment for the immigrant rights movement. A year and a half ago a fight for all 11 million resulted in a partial victory that was to expand temporary relief from deportations to a little less than half of the undocumented population in the US. And now that case is being heard in the Supreme Court.

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Kimberly Released, Another Student Deported, Supporters Still Fighting

A series of ICE raids, the latest targeting young asylum-seekers from Central America, continue to rip apart communities in Georgia and North Carolina.  At least ten high school students have been arrested—many on their way to school—as part of the Obama Administration’s “Operation Border Guardian.”   Read more


AZ Chamber Kick Out CCA

Tell the Arizona Chamber to Remove Private Prison Company, CCA, from its Membership

Tell the Arizona Chamber of Commerce to Kick Out Prison Profiteers, CCA.

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Clinton Called on for Help at Rallies for #RaidedYouth in NC & GA

 

Rallies at DNC HQ in North Carolina and Georgia Ask the Candidate to Put Her Commitment into Action for Students Detained by Immigration Authorities

“I do not have the same policy as the current administration does. I think it’s important that we move towards comprehensive immigration reform, but at the same time stop the raids, stop the round ups, stop the deporting of people who are living here, doing their lives, doing their jobs. I will not deport children. I would not deport children.”

– Hillary Clinton, Mar 09, 2016

April 07, 2016 – Raleigh, NC & Atlanta, GA

Students, teachers, and community members rallied outside the Democratic Party Offices in Atlanta, GA & Raleigh, NC on Thursday calling on candidate Clinton to “do everything in her power” to put her words into action and stop the removal and see to the release of 10 young teens raided by ICE in their homes and in some cases on their way to school.

Holly Hardin of the Durham Association of Educators explained, “My job is to teach kids. If our kids are in jail or a war zone we can’t teach them. We can’t do our job. Many of these youth have already been detained ALL of third quarter. Worse, ICE’s detention of these youth has caused a far-reaching trauma that dissaudes students from attending school and distracts them with the worry of removal. This has to end.”

The raids have had a chilling effect on local communities, with many hesitant to go to school as a result.  While the raids in general have become a focus for candidates when questions on immigration arise, concerned communities say that the specific cases of those caught in the raids whose fate currently hang in the balance are a test of the candidates’ commitments and are asking Clinton to address these 10 students directly and act on their behalf.

“We know that we are safer, we are stronger, and we are more whole when we know each other, when we stand up for each other, and when we take collective responsibility when our neighbors and our strangers ask us for help,” added China Medel of NC Southerners on New Ground Latinx Caucus. “Demanding the release of Wildin Acosta to his home, his school and his community is part of our effort to take responsibility for each other. We offer our love and courage to Wildin. We offer Durham as his sanctuary.”

 

In the past three months, the regional ICE office located in Georgia has proven to be the most aggressive in the country, responsible for one third of the total 336 people caught in nation-wide raids.

Caught in the raids are young people like Wildin Guillen Acosta, a high school senior from Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina who was detained by immigration agents as he was leaving his parent’s home for school in January. Despite a pending appeal, ICE refuses to release him from Stewart Detention Center where he faces regular harassment from guards. Similarly, Jose Ismael Alfaro Lainez, an 18 year old Salvadoran teenager came to Georgia to be with his parents whom he hadn’t seen since age 5 only to be taken by ICE agents who hid behind a stairwell and grabbed him on his way to school.

A mother of Kimberly, one of the raided students, Lourdes Piñeda, spoke out at the Atlanta rally, “Our children should be in school and not in detention centers. We are here to demand that Hillary act on her campaign promises. The time to act on behalf of our youth is now.” “We are here to call on Candidate Clinton to do everything in her power and commit her words through actions and seek the release of our youth and community members. Detention centers are not for students, youth nor for our communities. The Atlanta ICE Field Office is responsible for 1/3 of the 336 people who have been victims of these raids, making it the most aggressive in the country. So, we are here to ask Candidate Hillary to show us through actions if she is for Education or Deportation,” concluded Adelina Nicholls, Executive Director at Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights.

The entire list of young people in detention caught during raids whose cases their teachers and community members have been able to document are:

Wildin David Guillen Acosta

Bilmer Araeli Pujoy-Juarez

Josue Alexander Soriano-Cortez

Pedro Arturo Salmeron-Salmeron

Santos Geovany Padilla-Guzman

Yefri Sorto

Pascual Andres-Felipe

Jaime Fernando Arceno Hernandez

Kimberly Lizeth Pineda Chavez

Jose Ismael Alfaro Lainez

An online petition on behalf of the students is available at: http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio/iceraidsyouth/