January 29, 2023 by V Leigh

Ours is a nation of immigrants. Until the day America rids itself of Title 42 and its oppressive legacy, we’ll still be fighting for the people it has hurt. Because #AsylumIsARight.

Idaho Falls Trump’s Muslim and African Ban was rooted in white nationalism and contributed to the ongoing dehumanization of Muslims and Muslim Americans. Today, on the 6th anniversary, I call on Congress to pass the No BAN Act to prevent any policy like it from ever being implemented again. pic.twitter.com/iGWlSaSIqJ
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) January 26, 2023

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Great to see @AOC highlight that Title 42 isn’t just amoral, it’s illegal.

“Last year Pres Biden promised to end Title 42. Instead he’s now expanding restrictions on asylum. But the right to seek asylum is enshrined in domestic and international law.” pic.twitter.com/QftukvPt4S
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 27, 2023

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I was proud to join my colleagues today as we called on @POTUS to end his expanded use of Trump’s Title 42, and to protect, not limit, the right to seek asylum. We must honor our commitment to offering protection in the US to those who have none at home. We demand better. pic.twitter.com/oGGLoGbezJ
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) January 26, 2023

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Ours is a nation of immigrants. Until the day America rids itself of Title 42 and its oppressive legacy, we’ll still be fighting for the people it has hurt.

Because #AsylumIsARight. pic.twitter.com/VP77tbyY1h
— Yvette D. Clarke (@RepYvetteClarke) January 26, 2023

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January 6, 2023 by V Leigh

BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month. Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence

Worthless @GovAbbott dropping off people with no money and no means on Christmas Eve in 15 degree weather near the VP’s residence. How Christian of you, Greg Abbott. Being a heartless POS isn’t going to make you the next Republican President. https://t.co/AM0xrUGLvo
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) December 25, 2022

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Border Patrol Agent Found Guilty of Killing Four Women https://t.co/7hQk2Fx8Yp
— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) December 10, 2022

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10 days ago, A Border Patrol agent & serial killer was convicted by a San Antonio jury of hunting & killing 4 sex workers in Laredo. He’ll serve life in prison.

May the memories of Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Alicia Cantu, Janelle Ortiz, & Melissa Ramirez be a blessing. 🌹 pic.twitter.com/5iIxRxClwU
— curbside abortion provider (@artyleooo) December 17, 2022

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JUST IN: Supreme Court delays end of Title 42, keeps in place a Trump-era immigration policy allowing asylum-seekers to be quickly turned away at the border. https://t.co/gnHeFwZ4na
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 19, 2022

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration will immediately turn away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who illegally cross US-Mexico border.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 5, 2023

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November 17, 2022 by V Leigh

Border Patrol has an entire unit dedicated to covering up their misconduct. Are we surprised?

A group of migrants were hunted and shot by brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard last month. At the time, Michael was warden of the West Texas Detention Center run by the private prison company LaSalle Corrections. Under the Trump admin, this would have been much bigger news.
— Tina Vasquez (@TheTinaVasquez) October 23, 2022

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1 of 2 Texas twins who allegedly opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near Mexican border, killing 1, injuring another, was warden at a detention facility with a history of abuse allegations. Michael & Mark Sheppard, 60 charged w/manslaughter.👇https://t.co/dIUggVXuKm
— 🍂🦃Darwin🦃🍂 (@jf_darwin) October 2, 2022

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Alert: Today @nbcnews reported that the Biden admin is planning to send Haitian migrants trying to seek safety in the US to a third country and/or to the ICE detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This should be setting off alarm bells (thread) https://t.co/9w58NhhXyI
— Jesse Franzblau (@JFranzblau) October 31, 2022

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Border Patrol has an entire unit dedicated to covering up their misconduct.

Are we surprised?https://t.co/nNTqG8D4mS
— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) October 28, 2022

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October 22, 2022 by V Leigh

Since 2010, Border Patrol agents have killed over 231 people by shooting, choking, tasing, chasing, or beating them to death. Not a single agent in the 90 year history of the agency has ever been convicted of an on-duty killing.

Since 2010, Border Patrol agents have killed over 231 people by shooting, choking, tasing, chasing, or beating them to death.

Not a single agent in the 90 year history of the agency has ever been convicted of an on-duty killing. https://t.co/nCR0v5iuST https://t.co/5jfEvfkiTN pic.twitter.com/X3wAGLeMm6
— Max Granger (@_maxgranger) October 6, 2022

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The ongoing violence and impunity of border agents must stop, which is why my colleagues @SBCCoalition and I are determined to bring meaningful accountability and reform to Border Patrol, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency. https://t.co/rz3GXPhVGC via @viceworldnews
— Andrea Guerrero (@guerreroandi) October 6, 2022

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Absolutely wild that in the span of two years, using Title 42 to weasel out of humanitarian obligations went from Stephen Miller’s wildest dream to something the liberal governor of New York takes a victory lap for promoting. Trump lost, but Miller won https://t.co/Fkh18wTfHc
— Felipe De La Hoz (@FelipeDLH) October 14, 2022

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September 18, 2022 by V Leigh

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended flying migrant families to Martha’s Vineyard this week and said he plans to spend millions that Florida has budgeted to continue the controversial practice.

What do you call someone who sends people across state lines with promises of work and opportunity, who, because of their desperation, are likely to go along with the scheme?

Ron DeSantis is a human trafficker.
— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) September 17, 2022

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So many of the actions taken by Republicans closely mirror acts that were intentionally and overtly racist actions from the past. They are showing you who they are, and that is racist, hateful, bigoted and evil people. https://t.co/tUSTv7drJ9
— 🏳️‍⚧️Daniela A. Wolfe🏳️‍🌈 (@Daniela_A_Wolfe) September 17, 2022

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Six buses from Texas bring more migrants to NYC as shelter system reaches tipping point https://t.co/sB9km7xG6j pic.twitter.com/l4nSoUovwD
— New York Post (@nypost) September 17, 2022

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Stop and watch this video.

Whatever you thought about the governors’ stunt… it turns out it was worse.pic.twitter.com/GASpsChOzl
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 16, 2022

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“I think this is all a ploy to get us to miss our court dates so we get in trouble with the law & they can deport us,” said a Venezuelan migrant who has an immigration court date on Wed in Los Angeles. https://t.co/hMyVN3vYFj
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) September 16, 2022

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended flying migrant families to Martha’s Vineyard this week and said he plans to spend millions that Florida has budgeted to continue the controversial practice. https://t.co/Pm4X2lyVMO
— Axios (@axios) September 17, 2022

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August 26, 2022 by V Leigh

Immigrant rights groups, including the SPLC, and survivors have submitted a formal administrative complaint against the Stewart Detention Center and ICE detailing sexual assault and abuses of power. #ShutDownStewart

Immigrant rights groups, including the SPLC, and survivors have submitted a formal administrative complaint against the Stewart Detention Center and ICE detailing sexual assault and abuses of power. #ShutDownStewart

Read more: https://t.co/YO72s0xUZZ
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) July 13, 2022

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August 13, 2022 by V Leigh

Read this remarkable work of journalism, the definitive account of America’s cruelest 21st century policy

.@itscaitlinhd spent 18 months investigating the Trump-era policy of separating migrant children from their families.

She talks to @yamiche about the important takeaways from her reporting. pic.twitter.com/U8UnyCpyYO
— Washington Week | PBS (@washingtonweek) August 13, 2022

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If, like me, you wondered what happened to the migrant children our government took into custody, read this deeply shaming & astonishingly reported story via @itscaitlinhd @TheAtlantic. The true mark of a civilization is how it treats the most vulnerable. https://t.co/C3Q8xFlQ9j
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) August 7, 2022

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“Separating children was not just a side effect, but the intent.

Instead of working to reunify families after parents were prosecuted, officials worked to keep them apart for longer.” https://t.co/43GaDdWGmZ
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 7, 2022

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This is straight Third Reich stuff: “It’s been said of … Trump-era projects that the administration’s incompetence mitigated its malevolence; here, the opposite happened.” https://t.co/au1uL0tJqo
— Dickie Scruggs (@DickScruggs) August 7, 2022

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1/ One cannot overemphasize how cruel, frustrating, and completely heart-wrenching this stain on our country is. Read @itscaitlinhd on the US family-separation policy https://t.co/zViV2Zp5SH
— Bhumi Tharoor (@bhumikatharoor) August 7, 2022

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1/ I’ve spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here’s my story about how and why it happened, and who’s responsible. https://t.co/rceRAqRPB7
— @itscaitlinhd (@itscaitlinhd) August 7, 2022

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This story is absolutely astonishing: the complete , inside look—with all the receipts and all the names—on the US government’s child separation policy. By @itscaitlinhd https://t.co/dVTEW4AzST
— nxthompson (@nxthompson) August 7, 2022

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By far one of the most disturbing and enraging things I have ever read. @itscaitlinhd spent nearly two years reporting this astonishing cover story.

It is definitive. It is also an urgent warning.

Please read it.https://t.co/hgLFdz3zcy
— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) August 7, 2022

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This will make you scream with rage and cry in grief. @itscaitlinhd’s monumental investigation on how the US family separation policy came to be. The human suffering wasn’t a bug but a feature and its architects want to do it again. https://t.co/yQPNASQKCh
— Lulu (@lourdesgnavarro) August 7, 2022

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Read this remarkable work of journalism, the definitive account of America’s cruelest 21st century policy https://t.co/1RRr5bxG3x
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 7, 2022

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July 19, 2022 by V Leigh

Moroccan border forces are funded by the EU. When they carry out a massacre of 37 people on the EU’s borders, the EU bears responsibility. And we have a responsibility to call it out. It is not an accident. #MelillaMassacre

Human rights groups in Morocco and Spain demand an investigation into the deaths of 23 people during an attempted mass crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Africa ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/5SrihArWoX
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 28, 2022

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About 200 African refugees were just killed in #MelillaMassacre and the media is so awfully quiet as if nothing happened. Would this be the response if they were white refugees?
— Birgit Uwaila Umaigba (@birgitomo) June 30, 2022

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The White silence of British media to murder of & inhumanity unleashed on African migrants on Spain-Morocco border is profound.

They hammer on about White #Ukraine️ every day but can’t spare ANY time to investigate & report on atrocities against Black ppl. #MelillaMassacre pic.twitter.com/tch5W2VN9q
— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) July 1, 2022

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Spanish media reported that they killed only 30 Africans. A blatant lie

Over 200 Africans were killed. It is so sad that Morocco was part of this

If they weren’t Africans the world would be at a standstill

THIS IS A MASSACRE. #MelillaMassacre #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/SrYlDbBBSj
— Africa story Live (@AfricaStoryLive) June 29, 2022

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Moroccan border forces are funded by the EU. When they carry out a massacre of 37 people on the EU’s borders, the EU bears responsibility. And we have a responsibility to call it out. It is not an accident. pic.twitter.com/t3sUdAbZ9p
— Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) July 11, 2022

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June 30, 2022 by V Leigh

“A horrific human tragedy.” At least 46 people have been found dead inside a trailer truck in Texas in what appears to be one of the worst cases of migrant deaths in the US in recent decades

“A horrific human tragedy.”

At least 46 people have been found dead inside a trailer truck in Texas in what appears to be one of the worst cases of migrant deaths in the US in recent decades ⤵️

🔗: https://t.co/qF3cSTVT76 pic.twitter.com/0O1fpu7RoQ
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 28, 2022

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If the border policy were actually “open borders,” then why did the immigrants employ criminal smugglers?

It’s because the borders are closed. The predictable results are black markets, unnecessary crime, and tragedies like these. https://t.co/iwHF3cMHfo
— The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh) June 28, 2022

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A day after at least 46 people believed to be migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, the authorities were working to identify the victims. At least 16 others who were suffering from heat exhaustion were taken to hospitals. https://t.co/r6gTz5bf0u
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 28, 2022

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Texas police have arrested four men in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. The Department of Justice said one of them has been charged with conspiracy to transport undocumented migrants resulting in death. pic.twitter.com/9uEFCeqvsP
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 30, 2022

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‘Texas has done just about everything wrong that I can think of … We dehumanize [migrants]. We make people think that they are something less than us and they are not less than us.’

Judge Nelson W. Wolff slammed TX leaders following the death of 51 migrants in San Antonio. pic.twitter.com/9HR3kViVzI
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 29, 2022

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The tragedy in San Antonio is devastating. My heart breaks for the victims and their families. May they find peace.

Inhumane policies like Title 42 and Remain in Mexico recklessly endanger people seeking asylum. We must end these policies and save lives. https://t.co/vKUGfOnQ51
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) June 28, 2022

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The tragedy in San Antonio tonight, the loss of life, is horrific. My prayers are with the victims, their families and the survivors being treated in our community. May God bless them.

We must end Title 42 which has put desperate, oppressed people in grave danger of death. https://t.co/P0l8YmtHmq
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 28, 2022

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“The border has become a mass grave and a testament to the decades-long inhumanity and irrationality of U.S. border and immigration policies.” Column from @jeanguerre https://t.co/F2LRvQA7j2
— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 28, 2022

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May 3, 2022 by V Leigh

NEWS: We are bringing a landmark legal challenge against Priti Patel for her policy to expel asylum seekers to Rwanda.

ICE is skirting sanctuary laws by contracting with private data brokers, like LexisNexis & ThomsonReuters (two common academic library resource platforms). Universities that pride themselves on being sanctuary campuses need to be aware of this & fight back https://t.co/SmrAidzfB2
— Alison Macrina (@flexlibris) April 20, 2022

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The U.S. is sick to install death traps. They do this intentionally knowing people will die.

Mexican woman dies entangled crossing Arizona border wall https://t.co/lRW4dK69OM
— Fund the people. Disarm the police. (@glncv) April 14, 2022

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I’m an immigration lawyer. Title 42 is not a border control measure. It’s a public health measure to temporarily halt *all* movement during a health crisis. Selectively banning brown asylum seekers while allowing white asylum seekers is not Title 42—it’s white supremacy. https://t.co/EKHsq4Dwpx
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) April 27, 2022

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Texas suing to block Biden rule on asylum decisions at the border https://t.co/T83OVliuOP via @nypost
— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) April 29, 2022

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“I really think that there are a number of Democrats that are continuing to fall to what we see as just plain and simple xenophobic pandering around election concerns.” – @amywfischer, AIUSA’s advocacy director https://t.co/pjC7EjYDxX
— Amnesty International USA (@amnestyusa) April 29, 2022

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A teenage boy, who is non-verbal and has acute mental health needs, was found in an immigration detention centre after having gone missing.

Despite having never left the country, Home Office documents recorded his nationality as Nigerian.https://t.co/KdINCbhDy4
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) April 28, 2022

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NEWS: We are bringing a landmark legal challenge against Priti Patel for her policy to expel asylum seekers to Rwanda.

This challenge, brought together with @pcs_union & @Care4Calais is brought on behalf of everyone who is vulnerable to this 1/ https://t.co/SMx0m967EI
— Bella Sankey (@BellaSankey) April 28, 2022

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Ours is a nation of immigrants. Until the day America rids itself of Title 42 and its oppressive legacy, we’ll still be fighting for the people it has hurt. Because #AsylumIsARight.

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BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month. Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence

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Border Patrol has an entire unit dedicated to covering up their misconduct. Are we surprised?

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Since 2010, Border Patrol agents have killed over 231 people by shooting, choking, tasing, chasing, or beating them to death. Not a single agent in the 90 year history of the agency has ever been convicted of an on-duty killing.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended flying migrant families to Martha’s Vineyard this week and said he plans to spend millions that Florida has budgeted to continue the controversial practice.

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Immigrant rights groups, including the SPLC, and survivors have submitted a formal administrative complaint against the Stewart Detention Center and ICE detailing sexual assault and abuses of power. #ShutDownStewart

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Read this remarkable work of journalism, the definitive account of America’s cruelest 21st century policy

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“A horrific human tragedy.” At least 46 people have been found dead inside a trailer truck in Texas in what appears to be one of the worst cases of migrant deaths in the US in recent decades

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