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“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…
ICE claims that some 800 immigrants were spared detention this week because Oakland’s mayor publicly announced that she’d been tipped off about imminent raids. If this is true, the anonymous source a…
In a separate case, Warren and eight other border activists face misdemeanor charges of driving in a wilderness area and leaving water jugs and food in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in J…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
By David L. Wilson, MR Online February 7, 2018 https://mronline.org/2018/02/07/the-latest-nonsense-about-immigration-a-quick-guide/ We’ve seen and heard a lot about immigration in the past few weeks…
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.…
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/…
It’s not the first time the Democrats have failed the Dreamers. In 2009-2010 the party controlled the Congress and the White House, but supposed “master strategist” Chuck Schumer held off on promotin…
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…
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…
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’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…
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…
Photo: Astrid Riecken/Washington Post) Rapid response network to monitor immigration enforcement launches in San Diego By Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union Tribune December 19, 2017 People who see immi…
