Last week’s ICE raids swept up at least one immigrant
supposed to be protected by Obama’s DACA program. Government officials are
still holding Daniel Ramirez Medina,
claiming he is an admitted gang member and therefore subject to deportation;
his lawyers deny that the young man has gang affiliations. Immigrant rights
activists are encouraging supporters to sign an online petition and to
participate in protests, including one today in New York City.
Meanwhile, the ICE raids continue to spark more
organizing and protests, including what appears to be a spontaneous “Day
Without Immigrants.”
In
Seattle, a father named Daniel Ramirez Medina
has been detained by ICE agents for days. Daniel has DACA
and is authorized to work in the US.
If Daniel, a father
to a three-year-old son who has been here since he was seven, isn’t safe we are
all at risk for deportation.
Daniel is only one of hundreds of
immigrants who have been invaded by ICE at their homes and workplaces and could
be deported, regardless of their status. ICE has deported mothers who have
lived here for over 20 years. ICE has demanded papers from U.S. citizens.
Secretary
Kelly needs to release Daniel NOW and
declare DACA recipients safe.
New York Rally to #FreeDaniel and Stop ICE
Raids
The Trump administration has continuously attacked immigrant
communities. This past week there have been hundreds of arrests by ICE, spreading
fear and panic throughout our communities all over the country. Most recently,
Daniel Ramirez Medina was taken into custody despite being a DACA recipient.
This Thursday at 5 pm we rally in front of the Department of Homeland Security
Building to demand that ICE #FreeDaniel and stop #ICERaids operations and
arrests that are targeting everyone and tearing families falling apart.
When: Thursday, February 16th, 2017 at 5 PM
Where: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Varick
Street Federal Building)
201 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014
This will be a legal,
peaceful and nonviolent demonstration.
Participating organizations include: Make the Road NY, United We Dream, New
York Communities For Change, New York Immigration Coalition, Working
Families Party, Taxi Workers Alliance, 32BJ.
Daniel Ramirez Medina: what we know about the DREAMer
detained by immigration agents
Is Ramirez's arrest a mistake, or an omen? 750,000
immigrants’ lives depend on the answer.
By Dara Lind, Vox
February 15, 2017
President Trump
has
said that any unauthorized immigrant in the US should be deportable. But he
has
also said that the 750,000 immigrants who’ve been protected by the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which grants two-year protection
from deportation and work permits to young adults who came to the US as
children — are “terrific” people who shouldn’t worry about their futures.
Those two positions always conflicted. And while the Trump
administration is
still
delaying a decision on what to do with the “DREAMers” who’ve received DACA
protections, it looks like the crisis is coming to a head. […]
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After Nationwide ICE Raids, 50,000 People in Milwaukee
Rose up to Say the Arrests Were Wrong
By Oliver Ortega, The Progressive
February 14, 2017
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| Photo: The Progressive |
As seventeen-year-old Daniel Gutierrez Ayala marched in
Milwaukee on Monday, he thought about the fate of his undocumented parents in
Trump’s America. He thought about his own tenuous future as a recipient of
President Obama’s deferred action program, and his dream of one day becoming a
lawyer who fights for the immigrant community.
As he walked, the high school senior took comfort in the
fact that he was not alone. Tens of thousands walked with him—day laborers and
business owners who closed shop for the day, schoolchildren and working parents
who had taken the morning off, teachers and office workers, activists of all
colors and creeds, all eager to partake in one of the largest single
manifestations for immigrant rights since President Donald Trump took
office.[…]
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Day Without Immigrants to Hit Washington in the Stomach
By Richard Pérez-Peña and Katie Rogers, New York Times
February 15, 2017
WASHINGTON — In a city where expense account meals are a
central part of power players’ lives, some of Washington’s best-known
restaurants will close their doors on Thursday in solidarity with a national
campaign to draw attention to the power and plight of immigrants.
The campaign, spread on social media and messaging apps, has
called for a “day without immigrants.” It asks foreign-born people nationwide,
regardless of legal status, not to go to work or go shopping in a demonstration
of the importance of their labor and consumer spending to the United States’
economy.[…]
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