The movement for migrant rights and justice for immigrants has bravely been taken to a radical new level with undocument folks leading the charge. Resist grantees have been at the frontline of the struggle. The stories are almost as powerful as the actions.
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Not One More! A movement rallies around a simple demand...
Every Tuesday night, people with family members enmeshed in the deportation system come together at the Puente Movement office to provide each other moral support, tips for navigating the complicated immigration legal system, and to help strategize next steps in the fight to stop deportations. One Tuesday in early February, Anselma Lopez, who cares for her son’s two young children, as he has been detained...
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·Cristina Parker and Bob Libal
October 1, 2014
Opening Not Just the Door, but Our Hearts
The national debate over the US immigration detention and deportation system has come into sharp focus with the response to the Central American children and families who are fleeing violence and persecution to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border. Responding to this humanitarian crisis will require relief efforts to support the women and children and organizing and advocacy against proposals to detain and deport them...
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·Olneyville Neighborhood Association
October 1, 2014
Victory! But the struggle against deportations continues
It is with overwhelming joy that we share the news that on July 17th, 2014, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed an order directing our state’s prisons and jails to end their practice of holding immigrant detainees for additional time in order to transfer them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The previous policy of accepting “ICE hold” resulted in unknown hundreds of our community...
Documenting the Undocumented: Blurring the lines between artist and activist
A group of people stand motionless, gazing forlornly through the metal bars surrounding the White House. No one acknowledges them, save the guard moving through them through the milling crowd. In one swift movement he lifts the little group up and into the nearby trashcan, pushing down the cardboard cutouts until they fit into the dark, dank space. These “people” were just as ignored and...