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Activist Ravi Ragbir urges West Village churchgoers to help immigrants facing deportation

“So how can you help?…This is where I’m going to start challenging you. You can create a space where you can help someone. You can make a phone call. You can write a letter. You can tweet. You can ju…

Unions in the Resistance Against ICE

San Francisco workers demonstrate. Photo: David Bacon How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations No one knows better than union activists that there's zero chance for this kind of basic immig…

Protest Roundup: Is Resistance to ICE on the Rise?

While media attention was focused on the DACA debacle in Congress, a lot seemed to be going on at the local level. Given the paucity of media coverage, it’s hard to tell whether this represents an in…

Trump’s Plan Flops in Senate--Despite Bizarre DHS Press Release

Efforts to protect the younger immigrants known as Dreamers collapsed in the Senate today as three competing amendments  failed to get the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster. President Trump had m…

Elvira Arellano: Learn from our own history!

The only way we can stop the deportations now is to demonstrate, to commit mass civil disobedience, over and over again. Sanctuary in churches must become militant mass sanctuary in the streets. It i…

Senate Set to Debate Immigration--as Resistance Picks Up

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled as much as two weeks’ worth of open Mitch McConnell. Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite debate on immigration policy starting tonight. No one se…

Getting Real About John Kelly

General John Kelly. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP At last mainstream reporters have started reporting about the real General John Kelly. What finally did Trump’s chief of staff in was the revelation that he&…

Ravi's Deportation Has Been Delayed!

Rally in Foley Square, outside New York Federal Building, Saturday, February 10, 9 am! By New Sanctuary Coalition February 9, 2018 This is a turning point - now more than ever we need to ramp up pres…

Important Op-Ed: “Trump is going after immigration activists like me. Will you be next?”

Tania Unzueta Carrasco, USA Today February 7, 2018 The Trump administration is targeting people who speak out and organize against its policies. I know. Members of my organization are being targeted.…

“Ravi Ragbir Is Coming Home—for Now.”

Update, 1/30/18:  Today's Democracy Now! features an excellent discussion with Ravi Ragbir, his wife Amy Gottlieb, and his lead attorney, Alina Dax. Watch at: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/…

More on the Immigration Police State

Two-thirds of the population lives in the government's 100-mile border zone. Graphic: ACLU Border Patrol Checking Papers of Greyhound Passengers in Florida Most Americans are unaware that two-thi…

20 January 1942: The Wannsee Conference or the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"

Inside ICE’s Police State

More and more evidence is accumulating: ICE is using its policing powers in an effort to shut down resistance to the immigration system. So far, the effort seems to be backfiring. As the repression …

ICE Targets Activists—Take Action!

New Yorkers arrested as ICE detains Ravi Ragbir. Joana Toro /VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images There can now be little doubt that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting immigration activist…

What Deportation Really Means

When Deportation Is a Death Sentence Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return? Laura S. Photo:…

NYC, 1/15/18: Stand Up for Immigrants and Against Racism

1. Stand With Us on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we proclaim “Immigrant Rights are Human Rights”. Ravi Ragbir, Jean Montreveil, and others have been unjustly detained. Join us Monday as we stand tog…

Not Passing a Clean Dream Act Would Hurt Taxpayers

Immigrant rights march in Los Angeles, 2016. Photo: Molly Adams Immigrants aren't just economic factors; they're human beings -- in the case of the Dreamers, human beings who have been member…

Trump Targets NY Immigrant Rights Activists

The administration is now taking aim at a faith-based New York activist coalition. This morning ICE detained the New Sanctuary Coalition 's executive director, Ravi Ragbir, during his scheduled c…

The New Sanctuary Coalition Requests Phone Calls to Support Ravi Ragbir

The New Sanctuary Coalition’s executive director was detained today when he made his regularly scheduled check-in visit to ICE offices at the New York federal building. The coalition is requesting ph…

NYC, 1/10/18 and 1/11/18: Two Important Actions

Rally for a Clean DREAM Act at Sen. Schumer's Office Join the New York Immigration Coalition and our partners outside New York Senator Chuck Schumer's office to demand he take strong action t…
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