Mothers and babies occupy the New
York City ICE Office to protest Trump administration 'zero tolerance'
immigration policy
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| Inside the Manhattan Federal Building. Photo: ACT.tv |
By Victoria Bekiempis and
Janon Fisher, NY Daily News
June 21, 2018
Angry moms, some rocking infants
in Baby Bjorns, crowded onto the ninth floor of the federal building Thursday
in downtown Manhattan to air their grievances against the Trump
administration’s “zero policy” toward border crossing.
Though the policy of separating
children from their parents was reversed Wednesday with an executive order, the
group of mad moms said they were still upset.[…]
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Guatemalan-born mother Debora
Barrios-Vasquez fights deportation from Upper West Side church
The 32-year-old has two
children, who are U.S. citizens.
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| Debora Barrios-Vasquez. Photo: Abigail Weinberg |
By Abigail Weinberg, amNewYork
June 21, 2018
A Guatemalan-born woman facing
deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking physical sanctuary
in an Upper West Side church, the New Sanctuary Coalition announced at a news
conference Thursday.
Debora Barrios-Vasquez, 32, fled
Guatemala in 2005 and has been living in New York ever since. Her children, 10
and 2, are both United States citizens. She was pulled over for a traffic
violation in 2011 and had regular check-ins with U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement since then, but in February, ICE ordered her deportation.[…]
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[Barrios-Vasquez denies that
there was a traffic violation; she says she was racially profiled.—TPOI editor]
ICE Shuts Down Its Portland
Office After Protest Camp Blocks the Entrance
The federal immigration agency
closed its building because of "safety concerns resulting from the ongoing
protests."
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| Photo: Icon Sportswire Via Getty Images |
By Katie Shepherd, Willamette
Week
June 20, 2018
The Portland demonstrators
protesting the Trump administration's family separation policy have achieved a
small victory.
After several days of protests
blocking the front entrance, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has
temporarily shut down its operations at its Portland office.[…]
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Kirstjen Nielsen Is Confronted by
Protesters at Mexican Restaurant: ‘Shame!’
By Sarah Mervosh, New York
Times
June 20, 2018
Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary
of homeland security, got an earful while she was eating dinner at a Mexican
restaurant in Washington on Tuesday night.
With tensions continuing to
escalate over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy
that separates children from their families after illegal crossings at the
border, a group of protesters confronted her.[…]
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Stephen Miller called 'fascist' by protester at Mexican restaurant
By Brooke Seipel, The Hill
June 21, 2018
White House senior adviser
Stephen Miller was called a fascist earlier this week while dining at a Mexican
restaurant in Washington, D.C., according to the New York Post.
The encounter took place on
Sunday at Espita Mezcaleria. The Post reports that a patron of the restaurant
called out Miller — an immigration hard-liner — over the Trump administration's
"zero tolerance" policy that separates migrant families caught
crossing the border illegally.[…]
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