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Freedom for Immigrants

MigrantFreedom

A week ago, @MigrantFreedom launched a #COVID19 Hotline to document abuses in immigrant prisons. Since then, the Hotline has received over 400 calls.We are tracking abuses on an interactive map.Here's

Minnie Rahman

minnierahman

Deportations: A ThreadNext week the Home Office has chartered a flight to Jamaica, intending to deport people who have been in the UK their whole lives.Today the #Stansted15 appeal their

Siobhán McGuirk

s_mcguirk

“Offshore processing” of asylum claims is driven by racism + xenophobia alone. When Trump suggested similar in the US, there was outcry. Now, the BBC calmly questions if it’s workable?

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

Thread: Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed detainees in a “pattern and practice” of abuse, according to a complaint filed by a Texas

Rep. Pramila Jayapal

RepJayapal

Yesterday, I was briefed by attorneys representing women who were subjected to forced, invasive procedures by a gynecologist connected with a private, for-profit detention center in GA. It has become

RAICES

RAICESTEXAS

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

PantsuitPolitics

PantsuitPolitic

I know many of you have questions and grave concerns about a complaint filed with the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security. The coverage of

zec

JustAZec

Abolitionists have a term called "non-reformist reforms" (which I personally believe to be as oxymoronic as it sounds in most cases) which refers to criminal legal reforms that are meant

Baltimore Courtwatch

bmorecourtwatch

Today’s Baltimore City Circuit Court bail review/habeas docket thread. Judge Sampson is presiding. CASE 1: a young man who was arrested for an alleged VOP. He’s being held on the

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

MIAMI NOW: "I am Anthony Swain. I am 43. I am a parapalegic. Confined to a wheelchair. Trying my best to take care of myself in this pandemic, no different

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Hey guess what? We have a homeschool-to-prison pipeline now.https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention1/ Grace is a 15-year-old with ADHD and a long history of beha

Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project

FlorenceProject

As Pride Month ends we’re celebrating the love and freedom of our client Lucero (left) and her partner Yeimy. They met in detention. Lucero suffered unimaginable abuse in her childhood

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Vernal_Bom

" 어땠을까"by SugaI still miss you and miss youMemories of us still haunt meIf I didnt let you go If I stopped you thenWould we still be friend? what do

Suraj Gogoi

char_chapori

Field of ethnic politics in Assam: Life or ideology?All political prisoners should be released immediately as the jails are too congested & unsafe. The case of KMSS leaders is serious

Monique O. Madan

MoniqueOMadan

#BREAKING: For weeks, ICE repeatedly told me that ZERO detainees in their custody in Florida have COVID-19. However, the agency got around having to disclose sick detainees b/c the they

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

camiloreports

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has ordered ICE to make "custody determinations" — consider releasing — *all* immigrants over 55, those who are pregnant and detainees who suffer