Five years ago today, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s dehumanizing and cruel Zero Tolerance policy.
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In our city of San Antonio, former RAICES organizers and their allies helped establish a similar program to aid immigrant families with legal services.
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U.S. asylum law can be harsh and unfair, even to the people we claim are helping.
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Texas believes it can start dictating asylum law, even though that's the job of the federal government.
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Immigration prisons exist to provide profits for the private corporations that run them.
It is time to do away with migrant imprisonment.
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Border Patrol's inhumanity is nothing new.
Border Patrol needs to be abolished. It can't be reformed.
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Today, The Court granted our motion on behalf of 7 U.S. citizens to intervene in Texas v. DHS and defend their ability to sponsor loved ones and others in the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela parole programs.
Why is this important?🧵⤵️
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Had policies such as Title 42 not been in place, this tragedy would have been prevented.
Instead, the Biden administration is willing to sacrifice migrants in order to seem tough on immigrants.
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In Honduras and El Salvador, recent environmental catastrophes, widespread human rights concerns, and political crises have made it dangerous for migrants to return home.
Today, and I led 116 of our colleagues in calling for redesignation of TPS for both nations.
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The U.S. is the leader in the number of immigrant prisons it has.
Imprisoning immigrants, and making them suffer is profitable.
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Biden's immigration plans have no real solution to deal and aid asylum seekers. Instead, the administration continues to expand some of Trump's worst policies.
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ICE and private prison companies have been destroying evidence and falsifying evidence when it comes to deaths under their care.
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There are many small steps the Biden Administration and Congress can take to ease hard decisions families must make when trying to adjust their immigration status.
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The e-carceration of migrants continues to expand, this time wrist watches.
Electronic surveillance of migrants is nothing new. The border is full of cutting-edge technologies, and ankle shackles, phones, have all been used to track migrants in real time.
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Cities are finding ways to protect immigrants, and conservative forces are making sure that that doesn't happen.
Interactions with the police are one of the ways that many migrants find themselves detained and deported.
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Congress continues to push failed immigration policies of the past, which did nothing to stem migration to the U.S..
Instead, policies enacted and kept by both Trump and Biden have caused nothing but harm to migrants and asylum-seekers.
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Yesterday was Tax Day.
Here is your reminder that undocumented immigrants pay taxes, and have immense power when it comes to their ability to organize their labor.
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Ending the labor exploitation of unaccompanied children must be a key priority for lawmakers and Biden Administration officials.
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Texas Republicans do not have a clear answer as to why this bill is needed, if under Operation Lone Star, the number of detained migrants has increased, not decreased. Arming citizens to shoot immigrants is not the answer, and sad that it needs to be said.
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In order to pump their numbers and look like they are doing their jobs, ICE consistently deports people that should not be deported.
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Immigration judges, which are appointed, not elected, can now decide whether someone is guilty of a crime that the charges were dropped for.
This is unfair for many reasons, least of them being punished for something you shouldn't be punished for, again.
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Immigrants continue to bolster the U.S., not just in the economy, but culturally as well.
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To this day, many families separated by Trump continue to be separated.
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Biden's atrocious asylum policies leave people for dead.
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Local police do not need to be doing the federal government's job, and not waste money and time doing so.
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The Biden administration's response to people coming to the U.S. seeking asylum has been detrimental and violent.
Instead of rolling back much of Trump's policies, Biden has chosen to double-down on many of his predecessors inhumane immigration policies.
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Florida is wants to reverse course and make it more difficult for undocumented students to attend college.
Yet another example of Florida hurting it's own economy in order to attack migrants.
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Deaths continue to happen under ICE's and Biden's watch.
Detention centers are prisons, full stop.
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The state of Texas is on the offensive when it comes to immigration, and has several bills aimed at making the lives of immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers more miserable.
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Now, Canada is in on it with the U.S. in making the lives of people seeking asylum even more difficult.
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The Biden administration continues to imprison migrants at a staggering rate.
What happens inside these prisons is abhorrent.
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The Trump administration's Zero Tolerance policy separated U.S. citizen children from their parents.
This is a stain on this country's history.
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Getting asylum is extremely difficult, and has been made even worse by the Trump and Biden administrations, who refuse to solve the issue.
Instead, they believe making it harder to come to the U.S., will deter people from fleeing to save their lives.
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The federal government has a responsibility to help states that are helping migrants, in the onslaught of attacks by right-wing politicians.
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Quietly, the Biden administration and ICE continue to push for the expansion of the 287g program, instead of pushing for its abolishment.
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Florida is at war with Texas over who can treat immigrants and those that have compassion and heart towards, the worst.
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Migrants fleeing violence and poverty cannot return to countries that are not safe. The U.S. must extend #TPSForCentralAmerica and protect migrants seeking refuge and safety.
📲 Text Biden bit.ly/TPSforCA
☎️ Call: 1-888-427-0484
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The U.S. immigration system is designed to take forever and cause people trying to come to the U.S. pain.
It is not a system designed to provide justice for those that need to come to the U.S..
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The U.S. has effectively built a wall, and Mexico is paying for it.
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