Bus duty, Thursday Oct 22, 2015
About 20 mothers and their children came through the San Antonio bus station today after up to 20 days in Dilley or Karnes City. All wore grilletes. I spoke to one mother from Honduras who was...
View ArticleSign on to #EndFamilyDetention in PA
End Family Detention in PA The Berks County Detention Center, known officially as the Berks County Residential Center, is a prison for immigrant families, where children as young as two-weeks-old have...
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Refugees and Migrants in the U.S.: Families and Unaccompanied Children (Report)
The following is a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the state of families and unaccompanied children refugees and migrants imprisoned in the U.S.
View ArticleChild care licenses for ICE detention centers?
As originally posted on VirginiaRaymond.com Child care centers exist to take care of children. The State of Texas requires most child care centers to be licensed, and to be licensed, they must meet...
View ArticleTemporary restraining orders issued against family prison camps
On Friday, a Texas State Judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TFPS) from granting child care facility licenses to family prison...
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Solidarity statement with the #Hutto27 and the growing hunger strike movement
A hunger strike movement is taking place across several immigrant detention centers in the U.S. EndFamilyDetention.com stands in solidarity with the growing number of hunger strikes at all immigrant...
View ArticleGrowing #Hutto27 Hunger Strike by Women at Texas Detention Center
Via Grassroots Leadership November 2, 2015 Asylum-seeking women report that hunger strike is expanding within the detention center, retaliation continues (AUSTIN, Texas) — On day 6 of the hunger strike...
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Four ways to IMMEDIATELY support the hundreds of women on...
By Chucha Marquez Please TAKE ACTION NOW to support the HUNDREDS of women now on hunger strike at the Hutto immigrant prison and ACROSS THE U.S. who are also kidnapped in other immigrant prisons. ICE...
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Bus duty, Nov 5, 2015
This is a Guatemalan family, mother and her 3 sons, who fled vicious poverty in their country. Abandoned by husband/father of the boys 8 years ago, she eked out a living washing clothes and cleaning...
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TAKE ACTION: Stop Texas from licensing prisons as childcare centers
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is considering granting childcare licenses to “family detention” centers where women and children escaping death and seeking asylum are imprisoned...
View ArticleWhy licensing of family detention as child care should be opposed
From Virginia Raymond: Here’s a webinar hosted yesterday on family detention by the Texas office of the Children’s Defense Fund: https://youtu.be/iEOI9bUI4S0 In it, advocate colleagues and I share...
View ArticleICE Leaders: We Will Bring Car Seats to Arrest Families
As originally posted on AmJoLaw n light of the disturbing news that the Obama administration has planned ICE deportation raids against Central American mothers and their young children, here is an...
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URGENT: Know your rights! ICE kidnapping families across the U.S. this week
From United We Dream URGENTE: Redadas, retenes, y agentes de la migra han sido reportados por todo el país. ¡Conoce tus derechos y reportalos si los ves! No tengas miedo, y no dejes que te engañen. Tu...
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LOS ANGELES | Feb 11: Protest/rally to stop detaining and deporting refugees
Save the date! What: Protest/rally to stop detaining and deporting refugees When: February 11, 2016 Where: Los Angeles, CA #FreedomNotReform #RefugeeRightsNow #EndFamilyDetention #CentAmRefugees...
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#EndFamilyDetention hashtag campaign goes international
This week, the internet saw photos from across the world with the #EndFamilyDetention hashtag go viral. The movement to expose and end the rampant human rights abuses of “family detention” has been...
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AUSTIN | Feb 4: Register to speak at Tx DFPS hearing on licensing family...
By Zeke Peña | Visions From The Inside collection Via Virginia Raymond The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has acknowledged that its purpose in licensing the ICE family detention...
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Know your rights: For non-US citizens arrested for criminal charges
I Am Not a U.S. Citizen and I Have a Criminal Conviction – What Can I Do? By the Texas Fair Defense Project ENGLISH: Click on the image to view/download the PDF. SPANISH: Click on the image to...
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Texas opens door to family detention child care licenses under lowered standards
As published on 2/15/16 at Grassroots Leadership By Mata Ruda, Part of the “Visions From The Inside” project. Link: http://visionsfromtheinside.tumblr.com/ (AUSTIN, Texas) — In a quietly announced...
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