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Reason (blog)
March 30, 2018
It has quietly started cracking down not just on undocumented immigrants but also on legal immigrant rights outfits and activists. As I write in The Week,. In a bid to stifle the backlash against its harsh enforcement policies, federal agents are now targeting high-profile immigration activists in addition to theÃÂ ...
NPR
March 16, 2018
3, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jean Motrevil, a prominent immigrant rights activist from Haiti who co-founded the New Sanctuary Coalition. According to ICE, Motrevil has several felony convictions for cocaine possession and served time in prison. He was ordered deported, butÃÂ ...
KGBT-TV
March 15, 2018
Immigrant rights activists stand with local undocumented woman facing deportation. by Abril Preciado. Multiple immigrant rights activist stood outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office Wednesday in Harlingen in support of Eva Chavez, a mother of a special needs child who is now facing deportation. AA.
KUOW News and Information
March 15, 2018
Prominent immigrant rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando has asked a Seattle immigration judge to throw out her deportation case. Villalpando's lawyers claim the ... “The Trump administration has been targeting a lot activists for deportation in retaliation for their first amendment rights. It really is a veryÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
March 15, 2018
Immigrant rights activist Maru Mora-Villalpando speaks outside the U.S. immigration court building in downtown Seattle before her first deportation ... Last month, United Nations human-rights experts called on the U.S. to protect Mora-Villalpando and other activists from deportation, saying advocates forÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
March 14, 2018
In recent months, US authorities have detained, initiated deportation proceedings against, and deported several immigrants' rights activists including a ... As an activist, Pablos's work reflects the reality that immigrant rights and reproductive justice are intertwined, organizing Latinxs to change policies thatÃÂ ...
In These Times
March 12, 2018
Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump's Border Wall .... “They try to sell the border wall as something that's just happening in this rural, isolated community, that it's not going to affect anyone,” says Gabriel Sanchez, 30, an activist from nearby Mission, Texas.
Splinter (blog)
March 8, 2018
But Pablos is now part of what appears to be a growing list of immigrant rights activists targeted by the agency. Recently, the case of Ravi Ragbir, the director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City who is facing deportation, made national headlines. In Colorado, ICE agents arrested Eliseo Jurado,ÃÂ ...
The News Tribune (blog)
December 31, 1999
... the decision to invite Mora-Villalpando as a gesture from “concerned students, faculty and staff” designed to condemn the deportation case against her as “a new phase in President Trump's anti-immigrant crusade, essentially silencing protest and free speech by targeting known immigrant rights activists.”.
Crosscut
February 27, 2018
Devin Theriot-Orr of Sunbird Law LLC, a Seattle-based immigration law practice, has also filed a FOIA request on behalf of other immigrant-rights activists. According to a press release, the law firm is requesting documents that "might show other instances where ICE is pursuing deportation proceedingsÃÂ ...
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
February 23, 2018
16 — tackled immigration, honoring three individuals and one organization doing their part to advance immigrant rights. During the ceremony, the Pa'Lante Awards took a moment to remember the victims of the Broward high school shooting massacre and made a plea for stricter gun laws. “I think that we allÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2018
A crowd of immigrant rights advocates blocked a Homeland Security van late Thursday from accessing the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Video footage ... Activists believe Southern California was a target in the sweep in retaliation for so-called sanctuary laws around the region.
Public News Service
February 12, 2018
Lawsuit Challenges Targeting of Immigrant-Rights Activists ... NEW YORK – A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging what immigrants' advocates say is the targeting of an immigrants'-rights activist by immigration officials. ... Other immigrants' rights activists have had similar encounters with ICE.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
February 7, 2018
Ragbir, 43, from Trinidad and Tobago, is a known leader of the immigrant rights movement in the United States and executive director of the New ... and Customs Enforcement has focused in past weeks on detaining and deporting leaders and activists within the growing immigrant rights movement. At leastÃÂ ...
ColorLines magazine
February 7, 2018
So argued U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest last month when she ordered the immediate release of Ragbir, an immigrant rights activist facing deportation, from a correctional facility in Orange County New York. Ragbir's “unnecessary detention” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), addedÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
February 6, 2018
Back in the United States, in Colorado, the husband of immigrant rights activist Ingrid Encalada Latorre has been released from detention, after he was ... Activists also say nine people were injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack on the town of Saraqib on Sunday night—the second alleged chemicalÃÂ ...
Street Roots News
February 4, 2018
... activism fighting for immigrant rights, particularly working against the Northwest Detention Center, a facility in Tacoma that can hold up to 1,575 people, making it one of the largest immigration prisons in the United States. She was one of several activists this past month subjected to ICE deportation efforts.
The Intercept
January 19, 2018
As ICE Targets Immigrant Rights Activists for Deportation, Suspicious Vehicles Outside Churches Stoke Surveillance Fears ..... Top photo: Protesters accompany prominent immigration activist Ravi Ragbir, outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at the U.S. Federal Building during aÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
January 17, 2018
On Thursday, after officials in the New York City offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed him that he was going to be deported, the immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir fainted. An ambulance was called to take Ragbir and his wife, Amy Gottlieb, who had accompanied him to ICE's offices,ÃÂ ...
Fight Back! Newspaper
January 16, 2018
Minneapolis, MN - On Sunday, Jan.14, immigrant rights activists, including students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, held a protest and community outreach action on the corner of Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue, a busy intersection in the heart of the Minneapolis LatinoÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
January 16, 2018
During a Tuesday morning appearance on CBS This Morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen suggested the Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not prioritize deporting Dreamers who are in compliance with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, so long as theyÃÂ ...
Miami New Times
January 16, 2018
But while New York City's activists have rallied in the streets all week to fight what they say are inhumane and discriminatory tactics, Miami has largely not noticed the two men are being held at ICE's ... *URGENT* Our beloved congregant and immigrant rights activist, Jean Montrevil needs our support!
Crosscut
January 16, 2018
ICE targets prominent immigration activist for deportation ... immigrants around the country, the agency has sent a prominent immigrant-rights activist in Washington a notice that it is initiating deportation proceedings against her. ... Villalpando is one of several well-known activists recently targeted by ICE.
ABC News
January 16, 2018
Antonia Alvarez refuses to leave the office of representative Erik Paulsen before getting an audience with a member of his staff. Read her full story here. 1 of 10. Arthur Nazaryan for ABC News. Antonia Alvarez refuses to leave the office of representative Erik Paulsen before getting an audience with aÃÂ ...
The Villager
January 14, 2018
BY TEQUILA MINSKY | Activist Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, reported Thursday at his appointed routine check-in date and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ragbir is now being held at a detention center in Florida. Hundreds of immigrant activistsÃÂ ...
Fight Back! Newspaper
January 13, 2018
20, MIRAC introduced its Sanctuary Now platform, a set of 13 immigrant rights proposals that, if enacted, will help the city become a welcoming city, not only in rhetoric, but in reality. A top priority of MIRAC is a municipal ID for all city residents.” Loretta Van Pelt of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 JamarÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 12, 2018
An escalating legal battle played out on Friday in the case of Ravi Ragbir, an immigrant rights activist whose detention on Thursday by federal immigration authorities sparked protests that led to the arrest of 18 people, including members of the New York City Council. Mr. Ragbir, 53, the executive director ofÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
January 3, 2018
President Donald Trump was slammed by immigrant rights advocates and Democrats in Congress on Tuesday for declaring that "activists and Hispanics" would be "falling in love" with ... DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start “falling in love” with Republicans and their President!
The Hill
January 3, 2018
That argument hasn't soothed many immigrant rights activists, however, who are warning that the Democrats risk losing support in the Hispanic community if they don't use their leverage more ... “DREAM Act or primaries,” Ady Barkan, a spokesman from the activist group CPD Action, said Tuesday.
Monterey County Herald
December 22, 2017
“The entire country is seeing an increase in enforcement actions across the board since this administration has come into power,” said Hamid Yazdan Panah, an immigrant rights attorney based in Berkeley. “Based on what ICE has said, they've gone on record to say that based on SB 54 and some of theÃÂ ...
BayStateBanner
December 13, 2017
Now, an outspoken advocate for immigrant rights, she said, “It wasn't until senior year of high school that I became fully aware of how important it is for immigrants and allies to stand together.” Laura Rotolo, staff counsel and community advocate with the ACLU, also spoke at the rally. “I'm here to remind usÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 10, 2017
The immigrant rights movement came out in full defence of Dreamers, the group of almost 800,000 DACA beneficiaries. Activists from as far west as Seattle to as far east as New York City staged walkouts, hosted rallies, shut down traffic, and staged sit-ins in front of Trump Towers. Numerous celebritiesÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 9, 2017
“People are actually losing their protection from deportation, losing their ability to work, losing their ability to support their families,” said Nayim Islam, an immigrant rights organizer for Desis Rising Up & Moving, a group seeking broad legislation that protects young immigrants, called the Dream Act. “TheÃÂ ...
Blavity
December 7, 2017
This week, UndocuBlack Network and the AAPI Immigrant Rights Organizing Table rallied an estimated 150 protesters on Capitol Hill to push Congress to address immigration reform, the Huffington Post reports. The protest was part of a full week of advocacy events, staged in order to urge lawmakers toÃÂ ...
Patch.com
December 7, 2017
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — New York State's top judge should bar immigration agents from state courts after a spate of courthouse arrests this year, attorneys and activists demanded Thursday. At a rally outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, nearly 200 public defenders and immigrant-rights activists calledÃÂ ...
New Haven Independent
December 6, 2017
Over 200 immigrant-rights activists — including a contingent from New Haven — were arrested at the nation's Capitol during a nationwide day of protest in support of DREAM Act legislation and a legislative solution for temporary protected status (TPS) holders. The Center for Community Change (CCC) andÃÂ ...
OCRegister
December 31, 1999
SoCal immigrant rights activists fight back against last week's ICE immigration actions .... There are several other activist groups and rapid response networks working to obtain information and keeping track of the impact of last week's actions. El Monte residents became aware of an ICE I-9 inspection atÃÂ ...
Crosscut
December 31, 1999
Prominent activist among immigrants exposed by state DOL ... BELLINGHAM — Nationally known immigrant-rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando, currently under threat of deportation, stood defiantly in front of the Department of ... Villalpando is one of several well-known activists recently targeted by ICE.
LA Daily News
December 31, 1999
SoCal immigrant rights activists fight back against last week's ICE immigration actions .... There are several other activist groups and rapid response networks working to obtain information and keeping track of the impact of last week's actions. El Monte residents became aware of an ICE I-9 inspection atÃÂ ...
Public News Service
December 31, 1999
SAN FRANCISCO – Warning that the country is heading down a white-nationalist, nativist path, four immigrant-rights advocates issued a call to action last week just hours before the U.S. Senate rejected all four proposals to change U.S. immigration policy, and a second federal court found the president'sÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
We end today's show in Colorado, speaking to another immigrant rights leader, Sandra Lopez, who has taken sanctuary at the parsonage of the Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist church in Carbondale, Colorado. She is now facing deportation to Mexico after living in Colorado for 17 years. She's a mother ofÃÂ ...
Splinter (blog)
December 31, 1999
Protests Erupt After ICE Arrests NY Immigrant Rights Activist During Routine Check-In ... At least two New York City Council members were among over a dozen people arrested while protesting the detention of prominent immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir by ICE agents on Thursday morning.
El Tecolote
December 9, 2017
And although the future might seem bleak at the moment, Jenny has found comfort, support, and purpose as an activist for immigrant rights and through talking about her mental illness in Chicago. Through participating in the Occupy Chicago protests, applying for DACA in 2012, and getting into tech, Jenny ...
Patch.com
December 8, 2017
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — New York State's top judge should bar immigration agents from state courts after a spate of courthouse arrests this year, attorneys and activists demanded Thursday. At a rally outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, nearly 200 public defenders and immigrant-rights activists called ...
Blavity
December 8, 2017
This week, UndocuBlack Network and the AAPI Immigrant Rights Organizing Table rallied an estimated 150 protesters on Capitol Hill to push Congress to address immigration reform, the Huffington Post reports. The protest was part of a full week of advocacy events, staged in order to urge lawmakers to ...
Bustle
December 7, 2017
So, that is exactly what an intersectional movement looks like when you see that a women's [rights] issue is immigrant rights and being undocumented is a women's rights issue." Women's March shared the video clip of the performance art protest on Twitter. Shrouded in gossamer black net, young activists ...
HuffPost
December 7, 2017
Asian-American and black activists rally to call for a clean Dream Act and a permanent solution for Temporary Protected Status holders. ... An estimated 150 protesters, led by nonprofit UndocuBlack Network and Asian-American coalition AAPI Immigrant Rights Organizing Table, rallied to ask Congress to ...
New Haven Independent
December 7, 2017
Over 200 immigrant-rights activists — including a contingent from New Haven — were arrested at the nation's Capitol during a nationwide day of protest in support of DREAM Act legislation and a legislative solution for temporary protected status (TPS) holders. The Center for Community Change (CCC) and ...
Chicago Tribune
November 30, 2017
"With the current political climate in Washington, it's more important than ever for area residents to have an understanding of what's going on with federal and state programs that relate to immigration," Chapa LaVia said in a press release about the event. "By working with the ACLU and community activists, ...
KABC-TV
November 23, 2017
For more than 15 years, immigrant rights activists have marched through the streets of the San Fernando Valley on the day before Thanksgiving ...
