The National Immigrant Justice Center, We Are Home campaign, and the 85 undersigned organizations urge you to establish a meaningful opportunity to return home for those unjustly deported. Across the nation and world, deported families and advocates echo this call through individual campaigns and hard-fought battles to return the unjustly deported to their families and communities.
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The 50 undergraduates, graduates and migrant justice activists in this year’s UCLA Community Scholars Program course, “Cross-Border Solidarity for Transborder Migrant Justice,” login from multiple countries.
Growing up outside San Diego, California, about 20 miles from Mexico, Sebastian Aguilar’s parents always got nervous when they went shopping near the border and U.S. Border Patrol vehicles drove by. This was what life was like with parents who were undocumented.
For much of his childhood, Aguilar experienced daily life through what seemed like inconveniences, like driving to Los Angeles to visit family at 4 a.m. to avoid checkpoints. At 17, though, he finally comprehended the magnitude of the constant threat of deportation when he went to his mom’s permanent residency hearing. Green border patrol vehicles were parked right outside the open doors to the courtroom, ready to immediately deport anyone who was denied status.
First Posted: May 14, 2021 11:43 PM EDT
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During the presidency of former President Donald Trump, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has established the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office.
President Joe Biden has vowed to close down the VOICE office, a decision he made after his inauguration. However, the Biden administration has yet to close the said office.
According to a Time report, the DHS plans to keep the VOICE office open. However, the department plans to rename it and refocus its work to serve the victims and witnesses better.
Biden spent $3 billion on illegal alien facility contracts, $2 billion went to 3 recipients
May 11, 2021
According to a Fox News report, the Biden administration has spent $3 billion on contracts to house unaccompanied children at the border. And $2 billion were no-bid contracts awarded to just three recipients.
This is a scam. Who are these recipients?
The government the US taxpayers is paying for children to travel to their sponsors, and even for adult sponsors to come and collect the minors being placed into their care.
The price of Biden’s open borders agenda continues to grow:
“The Biden administration has reportedly spent $3 billion in contracts to house unaccompanied children at the border… $2 billion of which were ‘no-bid’ contracts awarded to three recipients.”https://t.co/8T3zzCqrK4
Sotero Cirilo airs out a sleeping bag at the homeless encampment where he sleeps in Queens. The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico used to make $800 a week at two Manhattan restaurants, which closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started, and he ended up homeless. “I never thought I would end up like this, like I am today,” he says.
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Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens.
The 55-year-old immigrant from Mexico used to make $800 a week at two Manhattan restaurants, but they closed when the COVID-19 pandemic started. A few months later, he couldn’t afford the rent of his Bronx room, and afterward of another room in Queens he moved into.