ell Secretary Kelly: Bring DACA-Recipient Juan Back from
Mexico!
On February 17, Juan Manuel Montes was walking to a taxi
stand in his hometown in California
when he was approached by border officials
and asked for his papers. Though Juan was legally authorized to live and work
in America through the DACA program, he was deported to Mexico just hours
later.
This is a direct consequence to Donald Trump's mass deportation
agenda and the acts of an unaccountable agency. Juan Manuel must be reunited
with his family in California as soon as possible. Join us in demanding
Secretary Kelly take immediate action.[…]
Read and sign the petition:
Tacoma, WA: Support Hunger Strikers Fighting Worsening
Detention Conditions Under Trump
By Anonymous Contributor, It’s Coming Down
April 19, 2017
A new group of immigrants have joined a hunger strike at the
Northwest Detention Center, run by the private corporation GEO Group (GEO). In
addition to the hunger strike, immigrants detained at NWDC are boycotting the
company store (commissary) to protest unfair prices and lack of nutritional
food.
On Tuesday, April 18, the women’s section of the Northwest
Detention Center began a hunger strike to protest GEO and Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) failure to improve the conditions to meet basic living
standards. This follows a protest that began on April 10, 2017 when up to 750
people spent a week on hunger strike. While GEO promised to change the food
menu to meet basic nutritional needs and lower commissary prices, it has failed
to do so.
Detention conditions have worsened under the Trump
administration, triggering this latest strike. Trump has staffed his
deportation force with openly anti-immigrant officials with links to white
supremacist organizations, leaving people detained with little choice but to
put their bodies on the line to fight for their basic dignity. Attorney General
Jeff Session’s newly released memorandum calling for increased prosecutions of
immigrants and their supporters, combined with a roll-out where he referred to
immigrants as “filth,” highlights the continued need for local resistance to
the federal deportation and detention dragnet.[…]
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