October 17, 2021 by V Leigh

Black Lives Matter = Haitian Lives Matter.

Martil Black Lives Matter = Haitian Lives Matter.

Today I joined my colleagues to demand accountability for the inhumane & racist treatment of Haitian migrants by @CBP agents in Del Rio, Texas. pic.twitter.com/DZ2OgEb1Bf
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) September 22, 2021

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At least 91,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, crossed Panama’s dangerous jungle in hopes of reaching North America https://t.co/iISIUhc18P pic.twitter.com/qMY7XnpxQs
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 8, 2021

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Between September 19 and October 3, the U.S. sent more than 7,000 Haitian migrants back to Haiti, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. https://t.co/YoNYS0FMlc
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 8, 2021

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I am concerned about the expediency of the Biden administration in deporting the majority of migrants back to Haiti. https://t.co/9V4rr8NyaT
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) October 6, 2021

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September 24, 2021 by V Leigh

Hundreds of Haitian nationals — soon to be thousands — are being sent back to Haiti by the Biden Administration from the border even though many haven’t lived in Haiti for decades and have zero work or even a place to stay in a country they barely know:

BREAKING: According to @CNBC President Biden has used Title 42 to expel 690,000 people, 250,000 more people than President Trump.
— Tracking Biden From The Left (@BidenTracking) September 21, 2021

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When people warned you this would happen you literally responded with: “I hear you. I know. And I don’t care” https://t.co/1xf3wCLkmB
— 🧞‍♂️ (@lexapreaux) September 21, 2021

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More scenes from the Texas Haiti camp. pic.twitter.com/5FeNbFCyBL
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) September 21, 2021

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Too many people thought it was perfectly fine to flee their homes during Covid for more space and cheaper housing but have the nerve to judge asylum-seekers for fleeing because of war, hunger and natural disasters.
— Jamira Burley (@JamiraBurley) September 21, 2021

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Angry scenes at Haiti airport as deported migrants arrive https://t.co/MJwsuewYnM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 22, 2021

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The Biden administration says about 1,000 migrants camped near Del Rio, Texas, have now been deported back to Haiti, but there are mounting questions over their treatment, who’s being sent home, and who’s allowed to stay. @BreakingChesky reports. pic.twitter.com/Ax2UoH3Amk
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 22, 2021

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People from Haiti are facing unconscionable treatment in Del Rio, Texas.

This is a result of Title 42, a public health policy the Biden administration is misusing to expel people from the United States.

Title 42 has got to go. https://t.co/LuLk158HJM
— ACLU (@ACLU) September 21, 2021

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The U.S. deported 300+ asylum seekers to Haiti and is planning 7 daily deportation flights starting Wednesday.

At least 3,000 people held at a bridge at Del Rio were moved to planes or detention facilities. One woman who was deported said: “We are on the streets with nothing!” pic.twitter.com/Cnp7NYvskd
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 20, 2021

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Hundreds of Haitian nationals — soon to be thousands — are being sent back to Haiti by the Biden Administration from the border even though many haven’t lived in Haiti for decades and have zero work or even a place to stay in a country they barely know:https://t.co/3qSR9oIYYs
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021

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April 10, 2021 by V Leigh

No one can seriously think the richest nation ever just has to put people in these conditions. This is a choice.

There’s a whole world system of terror and exploitation leading up to this, not to mention a cruel immigration system. But, like, even granting all that – no one can seriously think the richest nation ever just has to put people in these conditions. This is a choice. https://t.co/7lpebpY5vi
— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) April 3, 2021

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The border wall has never been a “solution”—it is an expensive & outrageously destructive prop to make people who’ve never even been to the border feel “safe”

We don’t need walls. We need radical immigration reform, a change in narrative & some compassionhttps://t.co/cgXYc2Q7oJ
— Maxie Adler (@maxie_adler) March 22, 2021

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EXCLUSIVE: President Biden’s top advisers promise “long-needed systemic reforms” to address a backlog of more than 1 million asylum cases in the immigration court system. https://t.co/bkacuclUPj
— NPR (@NPR) April 1, 2021

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March 17, 2021 by V Leigh

The Democrats’ Long War on Immigrants

Must-Listen! @HarshaWalia on @intercepted: “the border was not just a line on a map. It is a constantly produced racial regime. It’s a constantly produced labor regime and it’s a carceral regime. It’s a form of enacting immobilization and control.”https://t.co/dFM1G213ki
— Azadeh Shahshahani (@ashahshahani) March 15, 2021

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A bipartisan group of senators who successfully pushed for a second coronavirus aid bill last year will meet today as they weigh whether to wade into another thorny topic, such as immigration or the minimum wagehttps://t.co/QoiN0AiWGA
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2021

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A 45-year-old Colombian man seeking asylum in the US died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a hospital in Texas on Monday. https://t.co/sdPexW1fwl
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 16, 2021

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Republicans revive one of Trump’s most notorious immigration lies https://t.co/h5n1WnSZXC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2021

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The House will consider the American Dream and Promise Act this week, which would establish a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — otherwise known as “DREAMers.” https://t.co/3PVOMfUSXx
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 15, 2021

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The House will begin work on two bills this week that construct a pathway to legal status for millions of people living in the U.S. https://t.co/JLzWEVNhUP
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) March 15, 2021

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Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin says he doesn’t believe there’s enough support to pass a full-blown immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants, a key pillar of President Biden’s immigration plan https://t.co/4APn5aphxg
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 15, 2021

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February 2, 2021 by V Leigh

President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of people despite his campaign pledge to halt most deportations at the beginning of his term.

Since the creation of ICE, there have been over 177 reported deaths at immigrant detention centers.

At these detention centers, immigrants are denied medical care & forced into slave labor in order to afford food.

We must #AbolishICE & close these barbaric immigrant prisons! pic.twitter.com/qmYVPqRxM2
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) December 8, 2020

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People must understand the depth of what’s happening here: the President of the United States has ordered a halt to deportations. ICE, a federal agency, is refusing to comply.

There’s no reforming this rogue dept. It’s time for a new, just vision.

#FreeMariana & #AbolishICE https://t.co/USurOjNYw5
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 26, 2021

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ICE and CBP carried out unimaginable cruelty at Trump’s direction. Now they’re defying President Biden’s order to halt deportations—even though they have discretion to not schedule them.

President Biden must get these agencies under control immediately. https://t.co/F9JVw0ykA5
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) February 2, 2021

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🚨ICE just deported a survivor of the El Paso Walmart shooting.

“This decision amounts to a re-victimization of this young lady, who only came forward to help build the case against the shooter in the racist attack.” –@DMRS_ElPaso https://t.co/9YIR0ON2EF
— Laura Lynch (@LLynch1) January 30, 2021

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Rosa — an El Pasoan and survivor and material witness of the deadliest terrorist attack against Latinos — was deported yesterday.

I’m supporting @DMRS_ElPaso efforts and will do everything I can to bring Rosa home and fight to protect victims and witnesses from deportation. https://t.co/K4w1l5iX2q
— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) January 30, 2021

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ICE Deported A Survivor Of The El Paso Walmart Shooting Who Was Assisting In The Investigation, Her Lawyers Say https://t.co/zp7hnmJPNE via @RyanBrooks
— dmrs_elpaso (@DMRS_ElPaso) January 31, 2021

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Put another way: ICE gave the El Paso shooter what he wanted. https://t.co/D5Abgqz4Xt
— Michael Kagan (@MichaelGKagan) January 30, 2021

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President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of people despite his campaign pledge to halt most deportations at the beginning of his term. That includes one of the witnesses to a massacre at a Texas Walmart in 2019. https://t.co/4NpH8Sf7r4
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 2, 2021

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October 22, 2020 by V Leigh

Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by the Trump administration.

Since 2017, at least 265 calls made to police through 911 and nonemergency lines have reported violence and abuse inside California’s four privately run federal detention centers overseen by ICE, a Times investigation found. https://t.co/NK12FzOhKy
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 18, 2020

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Donald Trump, aided and abetted by Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, and Rod Rosenstein, ripped thousands of children, including infants and toddlers, from their parents. Then they put them in cages. Over a hundred are still alone. At least six have died. #VOTE #BidenHarris2020
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) October 7, 2020

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Breaking News: “We need to take away children.” Jeff Sessions and top Justice Department officials pushed hard for migrant family separations in 2018, a watchdog found.https://t.co/g0LsvY5jUe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 6, 2020

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BREAKING: Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by the Trump administration. With @JuliaEAinsley. https://t.co/riUuEshXnc
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) October 20, 2020

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A critically important story from @KQED, @michelleewiley and @adrianamorgao. The work @JusticeInMotion, @supportKIND, @wrcommission, @ACLU and others are doing to search for and reunite families separated by Trump has ground to a halt because of COVID. https://t.co/SQNDbdezjS
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) September 23, 2020

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October 8, 2020 by V Leigh

The U.S. has a long, dark history of inflicting these forced operations on the most vulnerable groups of people, in jails, prisons and detention centers.

“In Budd’s experience, Bortac agents are among ‘the most violent and racist in all law enforcement’ …’They view people they encounter in the military sense as enemy combatants, meaning they have virtually no rights.’https://t.co/juKRyQAIUw https://t.co/WRHPdRMKMn
— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) August 2, 2020

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**CLARIFICATION: When raiding our humanitarian aid camp last night Border Patrol did have a warrant, but refused to show it upon entry. The warrant specified the seizure of all cell phones and paperwork, in a clear attempt to suppress documentation of their actions. ** https://t.co/5xWXMJMJ27
— No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) August 1, 2020

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Over a dozen women were pressured into getting medically unnecessary gynecological procedures without informed consent.

This is horrifying. Every woman has the right to make her own choices about reproductive health.

We need an immediate investigation.https://t.co/iFxekBUkQX
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) September 29, 2020

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If there were mass hysterectomies at an ICE detention facility, then the United Nations must conduct an independent investigation against the United States for crimes against humanity. The doctors who performed the hysterectomies must be brought before The Hague and stand trial.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) September 14, 2020

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Detained migrants reported lack of COVID-19 protection, medical neglect, abuse, being sprayed with poisonous levels of chemical disinfectant & now mass hysterectomies. This is genocide. ICE is operating concentration camps. We need to #AbolishICE now. https://t.co/R4Ug9JzUbx
— SBCC (@SBCCoalition) September 16, 2020

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NEW: ICE deported a crucial witness in an ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual assault and harassment at an El Paso immigrant detention center, according to the witness’ lawyers.

With @ProPublica: https://t.co/63mFRBkJbD
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 15, 2020

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This is tampering w/ a witness. Under federal law using physical force (in this case deportation) to withhold testimony &/or cause them to be absent from an official proceeding is punishable by up to 30 years. W/o physical force, corruptly impeding a proceeding is up to 20 years. https://t.co/7YOgoU62NM
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) September 16, 2020

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in 2020, immigrant women are having their reproductive organs removed without their full consent
The U.S. has a long, dark history of inflicting these forced operations on the most vulnerable groups of people, in jails, prisons and detention centers.https://t.co/AAUIpaHWC0
— Carlos F. de Cossio (@CarlosFdeCossio) September 30, 2020

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August 1, 2020 by V Leigh

ICE is detaining immigrant children in hotels for expedited removals.

.@ICEgov is detaining immigrant children in hotels for expedited removals.

No access to an attorney.
No due process.

Just fear and cruelty.

President Trump has used COVID-19 to effectively shutdown of the asylum system—this unlawful action is also happening in San Antonio. https://t.co/kPNGV3a5EP
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) July 25, 2020

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BREAKING: Our attorney was aggressively rejected from trying to offer help to immigrant children illegally detained at a Hampton Inn in McAllen, TX. He and another of our staffer were violently shoved into the hotel elevator and were told they could not offer help. #FreeThemALL! https://t.co/xSOxHOViKp pic.twitter.com/MEp7UmK6Gv
— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) July 23, 2020

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A thank you and message for the people protesting outside the hotel in McAllen where @DHSgov is detaining people:

Please make signs of our legal hotline so that those who are illegally & immorally detained get immediate help: 956-291-4169. https://t.co/nP6h8r90dZ #FreeThemAll pic.twitter.com/3zHRqttMU9
— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) July 25, 2020

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April 13, 2020 by V Leigh

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on a possible plan to help U.S. farmers by reducing wages for foreign guest workers on American farms.

NEW: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on a possible plan to help U.S. farmers by reducing wages for foreign guest workers on American farms. https://t.co/bde2558h69
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) April 10, 2020

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This is how the GOP plans to treat the migrant farmworkers who are making it possible for us to eat. Wow wow wow wow wow wow #coronavirus https://t.co/B8FY1mypgS
— Rinku Sen (@rinkuwrites) April 11, 2020

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Once you acknowledge the plain fact that the U.S. has deliberately engineered — and maintained for over a century — an agricultural system dependent on migrant labor, you see that “the undocumented” aren’t an illicit foreign presence, but a hyper-exploited domestic caste. pic.twitter.com/1Yzvv4qtrL
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) April 4, 2020

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Farmworkers are on the front lines of this pandemic, ensuring our communities are fed—and the Trump administration wants to reward them by cutting their pay. This is shameful.

Make no mistake: We will fight for farmworkers with everything we’ve got. https://t.co/1MAdQe4MdG
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 11, 2020

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Cutting the pay of farmworkers will starve the American people!!!!

Farmers are struggling, but the answer is NOT to hurt those who are helping farmers. We must prioritize folks on the frontlines, NOT corporations and no-strings-attached industry bailouts. https://t.co/nWFPgKaFli
— J.D. Scholten (@JDScholten) April 11, 2020

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February 3, 2020 by V Leigh

Trump’s travel bans have never been rooted in national security—they’re about discriminating against people of color.

NEW: A 39-year-old British man died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Saturday — the fifth person to do so since October, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Eight people died in ICE custody during the 2019 fiscal year.https://t.co/nuMCETSHRZ

— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) January 27, 2020

Since 2017, Trump’s travel bans have never been rooted in national security—they’re about discriminating against people of color. They are, without a doubt, rooted in anti-immigrant, white supremacist ideologies. This travel ban is no different. https://t.co/iyPduYzl62

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) February 2, 2020

Make America White Again. The strategy is the same as when the USA first set immigration quotas in 19th century w/ the Chinese Exclusion Act. Immigration policy in USA is always inherently racist b/c this is a white settler colonialist state. https://t.co/RHxGTjTerx

— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) February 1, 2020

Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world. And Nigerian immigrants are the most educated immigrant group in this country. But no amount of education or “assimilation” can counter immigration policy rooted solely in anti-Blackness & Islamophobia https://t.co/42Wn20BHB5

— Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson) February 1, 2020

The tech industry across Canada is booming. And one of the biggest reasons is U.S. immigration policy. The Trump administration has made it harder for high-skilled workers to get visas.

Canada, meanwhile, has been making it easier. https://t.co/anZXkDgpOj

— NPR (@NPR) February 2, 2020

By upholding Trump’s public charge policy, SCOTUS is “allowing the administration to weaponize xenophobia,” says @charanya_k. https://t.co/AQcsvPAw4C

— Amnesty International USA (@amnestyusa) February 2, 2020

BBC News – US Racist travel ban: Trump restricts immigration from Nigeria and five other countries https://t.co/mKdmVHIj4D

— JBE (@msjbe20a) February 2, 2020

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Black Lives Matter = Haitian Lives Matter.

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Hundreds of Haitian nationals — soon to be thousands — are being sent back to Haiti by the Biden Administration from the border even though many haven’t lived in Haiti for decades and have zero work or even a place to stay in a country they barely know:

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No one can seriously think the richest nation ever just has to put people in these conditions. This is a choice.

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The Democrats’ Long War on Immigrants

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President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of people despite his campaign pledge to halt most deportations at the beginning of his term.

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Lawyers say they can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by the Trump administration.

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The U.S. has a long, dark history of inflicting these forced operations on the most vulnerable groups of people, in jails, prisons and detention centers.

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ICE is detaining immigrant children in hotels for expedited removals.

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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on a possible plan to help U.S. farmers by reducing wages for foreign guest workers on American farms.

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