Citizens for Immigrants
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Showing posts tagged detainees
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New book: Between the Fences - Before Guantanamo, There Was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center, by Tony Hefner
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays the best wages for a hundred miles. The guards follow orders and keep quiet. [Read more via link above]
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Terry Gross of Fresh Air asks Tom Barry about public-private prisons For immigrants. Barry covers border security and immigration issues as the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for International Policy. He has written several books, including The Great Divide and Zapata’s Revenge.
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NY Times: Church Works With U.S. to Spare Detention
Click link above for article and here to see slide show.
Also read a critique of the article by immigration attorney David Bennion.
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"On the first Sunday of each month, the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration holds what it calls a "faith action" outside the Ramsey County Jail."
Minnesota Public Radio reports on Immigrant detention growing in Minnesota and the local community’s response.
“Loren McGrail is a United Church of Christ minister and one of the lead organizers of the Interfaith Coalition on Immigration. McGrail hasn’t had any contact with the detainees inside.
Her group is negotiating with Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher to allow pastoral visits in person, not through glass or a videoconference. ICE says detainees are entitled to pastoral care. Fletcher declined to be interviewed for this story.
One practical result of these monthly vigils is to extend support to family members of detainees. As wives, sisters and children finished their 20-minute Sunday videoconference visits with family members inside, they drifted out to the small crowd in front of the jail. Soon they joined in, reading the names of detainees who died.”
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More on article about New Jersey church from Citizen Orange: "A New Leaf at DHS, or a Deal with the Devil?"
Immigration attorney David Bennion critiques the recent New York Times article on a New Jersey church, its Indonesian members who were detained and their experience with Homeland Security.
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”When I was able to quiet my body and listen to my heart, I could tap into the overwhelming feelings of love. Love that I have for the people locked up; love that I have for the families of those impacted by our violent immigration policies.
On Sunday November 22nd, Jason Lydon, the Congregational Director of the Community Church of Boston, joined religious and secular supporters to stand with immigrants being targeted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Unitarian Universalists were there in force. Read his moving blog post, ‘Keep Fighting’ and watch video from the event.
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The Immigration System Is Broken; What Are You Doing To Fix It?
This week’s guest post on Change.org’s Immigration blog comes from Carl McGinnis, a citizen of the United States, who has seen the horrors of immigrant detention after ICE detained his legal immigrant friend.
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Video by Jennie Aleshire about Riverside Church’s Sojourners Visitation Program as well as, and most importantly, the stories and experiences of former detainees.
via Huffington Post
