Immigration News
In the past few months, DHS announced a Family Reunification Parole Process designed to expand lawful pathways that promote family unity to these 5 countries.
What is Ecuador, Columbia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Professor Nancy Hiemstra, interviewed in episode #3 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast, asserts that detention and deportation does not deter immigration or improve national security. Instead it generates insecurity, extends institutional racism and is driven by this motive.
What is profit.
Professor David Brotherton, interviewed in episode #1 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast, says his research into this type of group, that is usually criminalized and characterized as anti-social, has found they are often engaged of movements for political and social change.
What are gangs.
This Arizona based Human Rights Movement was founded in 2007, in response to the abuse of power by local law enforcement in Maricopa County and federal anti-migratory policies.
What is Puente.
On 10/30/23, Secretary Mayorkas announced an executive order by President Biden, stating that the US government intends to monitor the use of this new technology to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security will use it safely and responsibly.
What is artificial intelligence.
Does that make you feel better?
This USCIS Field Office, that had been shuttered, was recently re-opened in this country capital.
What is Havana, Cuba.
According to Professor Sarah Tosh, interviewed in episode #4 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast, this relatively new legal classification is the basis for deporting thousands of people every year.
What is aggravated felony.
One review of this journalist's book, "Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders" said that his stories "of the humble people of the earth ask us to tear down the walls in our hearts and our heads". Interviewed in episode #2 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast was this journalist.
Who is Todd Miller.
This organization, which was started to fight the mass targeting of immigrants for deportation, was instrumental in the founding of Families For Freedom.
What is the Immigrant Defense Project.
In 2021, the US expanded US citizenship for children born abroad to what types of couples.
What is same sex couples.
In August of 2023, USCIS issued guidance designed to help this group on non-citizens living in limbo, to apply for immigration benefits and other requests.
What are stateless people.
Ramzi Kassem, interviewed in episode #7 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast, is the founding director of C.L.E.A.R., an acronym that focuses accountability and responsibility back on the security state. What does CLEAR stand for?
Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility
In their book "Que diran? Making sense of the impact of Latinas experiencing intimate partner violence in NYC" Professors Yolanda Ortiz Rodriguez & Jayne Mooney point out that sexism is not the only or necessarily the primary system of oppression these women are facing. These four additional factors can complicate their experience.
What is 1) Racism 2)Ethnicity 3) Immigration Status 4) Classism
This FFF ally works to challenge the structural barriers and state violence that LGBTQIA detainee/ undocumented folks face related to their immigration status, race, sexuality, and gender expression/ identity.
What is the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project.
This Assistant Professor from Baruch College recently got together with FFF ED Janay Cauthen to promote her new book "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement & Resistance in America"
Who is Felicia Arriaga.
In May of 2023, USCIS extended and expanded Employment Authorization for residents of this city, covered by Deferred Enforced Departure.
What is Hong Kong.
This US company has created the electronic tools for ICE to collect public and private data including identity information, facial recognition, surveillance footage and biometric data in order to better monitor and track immigrant communities.
What is Amazon.
This study piloted by Professor Shirley Leyro, interviewed in episode #6 of the "They Are Just Deportees" Podcast, is focused on the mental well being of non-citizen college students at CUNY to better understand their experience and make them feel welcomed into the community.
What is the CUNY Belonging Study.
This national coalition builds power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
What is Detention Watch Network.
Name three people who made progress in fighting their case in the past year?
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In the past 3 months, Temporary Protected Status has been extended for the following 5 countries.
What are Cameroon, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine.
Six months ago, TPS was extended for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.
What two states recently lost their suit against the federal government when they tried to get out of providing basic services to immigrant families.
What is Texas and Louisiana.
What group is more likely to be arrested, convicted and incarcerated than non-citizens immigrants?
US citizens.
This coalition of grassroots and advocacy organizations is aligned around a shared commitment to ending deportations, mass incarceration, and other violence caused by this country’s intersecting immigration and criminal legal systems.
What is the Clemency Coalition of New York.
Name someone who has inspired you to rise up and say why.
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