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Today, CBP published a 500+ page report of what amounts to a sham investigation of Border Patrol’s racist & violent abuse of Haitian migrants at Del Rio last September.
They didn’t interview a single Haitian migrants. Not 1 survivor of the abuse they supposedly investigate. 🧵
They didn’t interview a single Haitian migrants. Not 1 survivor of the abuse they supposedly investigate. 🧵
CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said “efforts were made” to interview Haitian migrants. That is a bald-faced lie.
W/ @HaitianBridge & @jactioncenter, we represent 9 Haitian migrants who suffered mistreatment at Del Rio. The investigators were in communication w/ our legal team.
W/ @HaitianBridge & @jactioncenter, we represent 9 Haitian migrants who suffered mistreatment at Del Rio. The investigators were in communication w/ our legal team.
@HaitianBridge @jactioncenter CBP deliberately chose to exclude directly impacted Haitian migrants’ testimony from their investigation. They silenced the voices of Black migrants in 500 page report about an incident that involved massive anti-Black racism.
We are absolutely disgusted by the Biden Administration's decision to deport thousands of Haitians one month after the devastating earthquake and storm that resulted in 2,200 deaths and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. 🧵👇🏾
Families who lost everything to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake are now living through flash floods and mudslides. The destruction is large-scale and unprecedented, worsening Haiti’s already unstable political and social infrastructure.
Haiti is one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change – and we can expect climate disasters to continue to devastate the nation in the years to come.
Seeking asylum is an internationally-recognized human right, yet far too many Black asylum seekers are denied due process, locked in detention, and eventually deported. @DHS_Secretary must address racism in the asylum system and transform it towards justice! #Act4BlackImms
After years of heightened discrimination in the asylum and refugee systems, @DHS_Secretary must restore justice and root out white supremacy so that Black immigrants fleeing harm may find peace. @DHSgov #Act4BlackImms #DefendAsylum #RefugeesWelcome #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
Deborah Jane, a Ugandan mother of four children who survived an acid attack, reminds us “America closing its doors on the most vulnerable refugees would be like pushing them to die.” #BlackHistoryMonth #Act4BlackImms
cwsglobal.org/stories/debora…
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ACT NOW to help #StopDeportations!
Biden's 100-day moratorium on most deportations was blocked by a TX lawsuit, allowing mass deportations to continue at an alarming rate—especially of Black immigrants and asylum seekers.
Here's a thread of actions you can take ⬇️
Biden's 100-day moratorium on most deportations was blocked by a TX lawsuit, allowing mass deportations to continue at an alarming rate—especially of Black immigrants and asylum seekers.
Here's a thread of actions you can take ⬇️
1. Sign and share this petition to @POTUS to halt imminent deportations and take steps to ensure families remain together and free in the U.S.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/bide…
#StopDeportations #FamiliesBelongTogether
actionnetwork.org/petitions/bide…
#StopDeportations #FamiliesBelongTogether
2. Use the social media posts in this #BlackHistoryMonth toolkit to highlight the experiences of Black immigrants and pressure the Biden Administration to immediately suspend deportation flights.
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… @HaitianBridge @fams2gether #StopDeportations
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… @HaitianBridge @fams2gether #StopDeportations
Breaking:
After all night calls alongside partners @HaitianBridge : Haiti deportation flights are halted.
“The halt to Haitian flights came after a night of frantic calls from community activists & congressional staffers” ✊🏾 #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
bit.ly/3pVlgaS
After all night calls alongside partners @HaitianBridge : Haiti deportation flights are halted.
“The halt to Haitian flights came after a night of frantic calls from community activists & congressional staffers” ✊🏾 #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
bit.ly/3pVlgaS
This halt comes after hundreds of Jamaican & Haitian immigrants were rapidly deported as soon as the TRO from Texas was issued. Their goal includes thousands of African immigrants as well. Our full demand is all deportations be stopped immediately!
#FreeThemAll
#FreeThemAll
As a community that is the constant target of punitive anti-Blackness and anti-immigrant sentiment and policies, we were not surprised by this immediate and brazen attempt to halt progress on the immigration front through the 100-day deportation moratorium.
Deportations are continuing at an alarming rate, especially of Black immigrants.
In the coming days, ICE is planning to deport around *1,800 people* to Haiti, Cameroon, Angola, Honduras, and elsewhere.
4 urgent actions you can take ⬇️
mailchi.mp/interfaithimmi… #BlackLivesMatter
In the coming days, ICE is planning to deport around *1,800 people* to Haiti, Cameroon, Angola, Honduras, and elsewhere.
4 urgent actions you can take ⬇️
mailchi.mp/interfaithimmi… #BlackLivesMatter
✊🏾 Uplift on social media! Use this toolkit from @fams2gether and @HaitianBridge to highlight the experiences of Black immigrants and pressure the Biden Administration to immediately suspend deportation flights.
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
docs.google.com/document/d/11h… #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue
📣 Join a virtual press conference tomorrow (2/3) at 12 pm ET.
Hear from impacted community members, immigrant families, and advocates as they call for an end to family detention and deportation + to reunite families: facebook.com/events/3431830… #EndFamilyDetention #DefendFamilies
Hear from impacted community members, immigrant families, and advocates as they call for an end to family detention and deportation + to reunite families: facebook.com/events/3431830… #EndFamilyDetention #DefendFamilies
Our Legal Director @BlaineBookey joins @PriyaMorley (@nyulaw), @GuerlineMJozef @BuddhistLawyer (@HaitianBridge), and @goss_molly (@IMUMIDF) for a briefing on our new report documenting the experiences of Haitian women migrants in Mexico.
bit.ly/TapachulaReport
bit.ly/TapachulaReport
.@goss_molly (@IMUMIDF) explains that Haitian asylum applications are granted at very low rates in Mexico, where Haitian women face both anti-Black racism and gender discrimination.
.@GuerlineMJozef (@HaitianBridge): Many Haitians initially fled to Brazil or Chile, but then were forced – due to anti-Black discrimination and increasingly restrictive immigration policies – to seek safety elsewhere.
