Taylor Levy

@taylorklevy

immigration attorney doing lots of pro bono work for asylum-seekers El Paso/Juarez. appreciate $ support: & taylorlevylaw@gmail.com

El Paso, TX
Joined January 2017

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    19 hours ago

    thinking of a former public defender colleague who, in summer 2018, accepted a job as an AUSA in a texas border town, knowing that the family separation policy was in effect. it would be good for her professional development, she reasoned.

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  2. Oct 2

    such an important point! There were not enough lawyers/judges/jail cells to prosecute everyone who enters irregularly with misdemeanor illegal entry. (Just like cops at a music festival don’t arrest every person smoking weed—discretion). They *intentionally* targeted parents

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  3. Oct 2

    1 mom I worked w spent 2 days sleeping on bridge w toddler begging CBP to seek asylum (early on; prior to large groups sleeping on bridge). In desperation, she finally walked against pedestrian traffic in broad daylight to touch US soil on bridge. Charged criminally & separated.

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    Attorney said "the true problem here is not the hotels, it's the expulsions," which continue, per . "Just because DHS has stopped using hotels does not mean that children are not being expeditiously expelled without any due process."

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  5. Oct 1

    "The true problem here is not the hotels, it's the expulsions," Taylor told CBS News. “Just because DHS has stopped using hotels does not mean that children are not being expeditiously expelled without any due process, without any chance to seek asylum."

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    Just finished an oversight visit at the ICE facility in Irwin County. Here’s what I saw

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    Just left the Irwin County Detention Center. After hearing from women who were sent to the same doctor, it's clear they were having unnecessary medical procedures done to them without their knowledge or consent. This is horrendous. We're not going to stop investigating this.

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 26

    Hello! How are you? We are not good. I'd like to be able to give you a nice speech. But I am going to speak the truth, from my heart. Why have you taken so long to come here? For ages we have been shouting "HELP." You don't know all that we have suffered. Someone must stop it.

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    Sep 26

    For those who caught our panel on earlier, this is the case I referenced that at has been fighting. Judith miscarried while imprisoned by ICE & was given a non-consensual hysterectomy b4 being deported to Haiti.

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    Sep 15

    Why are not posting? I was asked today Well it's because I spent the time crying with our Haitian Asylum seeker who got deported after months of screaminggg trying to explain to people that she had an hysterectomy & was forced to do a credible fear Interview only a few days later

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    Sep 16

    Nurse Dawn Wooten, who we & represent as a whistleblower in the complaint about Irwin County Detention Center, does not have a Twitter account. It is angering that someone would try to take advantage of such a hero. The fake account has been suspended.

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    Sep 16

    There's a lot of talk around the forced hysterectomies at Irwin County ICE Detention Center. This is what we know: ➡️ There are 13 confirmed cases (# may grow) ➡️ We need to AND ➡️ To get to the root of the problem = But there's more 👇🏾

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  13. Sep 14

    I worked with a man detained in El Paso who went permanently deaf in one ear because his tooth infection ate through his molar, all the way to the bone, and all the way up into the ear canal.

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  14. Sep 10
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    Sep 5

    Are you a winner of the 2020 Diversity Visa lottery? Friday's court ruling gives you the right to have your visa processed before 9/30. You do NOT need to file a new lawsuit or pay any money to do this. Fill out this form for more information.

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  16. Sep 4

    This is a small win in stating that children shouldn’t be held in secret hotel black sites without any Flores monitoring, attorney access, social workers etc. HOWEVER, the real problem remains the rapid expulsion of asylum-seeking children with zero due process during a pandemic

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  17. Sep 4

    Judge Gee (oversees the Flores Settlement—an agreement the US government signed to settle a lawsuit) ordered that kids can’t be held in hotels while awaiting rapid “expulsion” without due process or right to seek asylum. But this ONLY covers the hotel part, NOT the expulsion part

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  18. Sep 4

    Here is the newest one I can easily find in my records. Improved with the addition of the sig line, but still problematic. This one was served on a Brazilian family apprehended in CA but shipped to El Paso & returned to Juarez, the only city that seems to accept Brazilian MPP

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  19. Sep 4

    They’ve changed a bit over time, but here is an example of what the form looked like at the beginning for a very long time, for thousands and thousands of asylum-seekers in MPP. First is from El Paso, second is from California. Some would be signed in the margins.

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  20. Sep 4

    MPP “notice and advisal” sheets (aka “tear sheets”) explain MPP in English/Spanish/Portuguese what time to get to bridge etc. Met loads of ppl who never got it when returned. & loads of indigenous speakers who don’t understand Spanish. Answer to this question is obvious-NO!

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