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When the President announced he would instructe DHS to revise its policy and end inhumane practices in immigration enforcement in the Spring of 2014, undocumented and immigrant experts gathered as the #Not1More Blue Ribbon Commission to generate 14 policy points that his administration could enact immediately.

With the expansion of deferred action blocked in the courts, we revisit five of the agenda items drafted a year ago that the President could still do today for immigrant communities. Each make clear that this administration has the responsibility and the options available to reduce suffering caused by inhumane policy and provide much needed relief.  Read more



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Seattle, WA- “Trans and/or Women’s Action Camp (TWAC)” in solidarity with NWDC Resistance and the Not1More movement to end detentions and deportations, at this moment is doing a civil disobedience action to bring attention to ICE presence in downtown Seattle.TWAC will be calling attention to ICE, located on 1000 Second Ave where they have a large presence and headquarters, and their local quota that guarantees a minimum of 800 beds to be filled at the immigration jail in Tacoma (aka Northwest Detention Center) operated by Geo group corporation. This quota is built into the contract between ICE Seattle and Geo and motivates the agency to round up immigrants in the area. The contract fuels the recent anti-immigrant politics in Congress that exposes the real intentions of  Republicans and Democrats who both introduce and pass bills to scapegoat immigrants and exploit family tragedies. Both parties are guilty of criminalizing immigrants further while sustaining the detention and deportation system; one of the most corrupt institutions in the country.

TWAC is bringing attention to the inhumane treatment of transgender detainees at all detention facilities, including the one located in Tacoma.

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 ICE and DHS Have Failed at Providing Minimum Safety and Dignity for LGBTQ Immigrants in Detention, Immigrant Detention Must End

 

Less than one week after Jennicet Gutierrez courageously interrupted the White House Pride reception to demand that President Obama end the detention and abuse of transgender immigrant women, the administration made public a new memo on the topic.

 

In response to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidance, “Further Guidance Regarding the Care of Transgender Detainees,”  the #Not1More campaign and member groups – Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, Transgender Law Center, GetEQUAL, and Southerners On New Ground – issued the following statement:

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The day after Jennicet Gutierrez of FAMILIA TQLM interrupted the President at the White House Pride Celebration, Press Secretary Josh Earnest is asked if the President would respond the same way were it to happen again.  After a non-answer, he’s asked if the President is even aware of the issues being raised by Jennicet.

Watch the video below.