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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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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December 15, 2020 by V Leigh

They separated thousands of families. They knew they were orphaning the children.

They separated thousands of families. They knew they were orphaning the children.

Everyone involved must be held accountable under the law. https://t.co/TgS3HHi6Om
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) October 23, 2020

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At last night’s debate, @JoeBiden said asylum seekers were “sitting in squalor on the other side of the river” due to Trump’s remain in Mexico policy. He is right.

I visited Matamoros last year, and what I saw was heartbreaking. Read about it here: https://t.co/u8miEqkKlF pic.twitter.com/jaemh4R8IS
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) October 24, 2020

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ICE officers ‘used torture to force African asylum seekers to sign their own deportation orders. Both a retaliation for whistle blowing on abuses, and as part of the acceleration of the on-going mission of targeting & mass deporting #BlackImmigrants. https://t.co/ZQo9KgSKxd
— UndocuBlack Network (@UndocuBlack) October 22, 2020

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November 28, 2018 by V Leigh

Trump’s new “public charge” regulation would strip immigrant families of their access to healthy food 🍎, health care 🏥, and housing

.@JulianCastro: "I consider [Trump’s border detentions] state-sponsored child abuse and basically kidnapping of kids from their parents." pic.twitter.com/KrIryqyCum

— UpFront (@AJUpFront) October 19, 2018

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"Children being separated from their parents, it’s heart-breaking. And we’re complicit. We invited people into our community by giving them a low-wage job, hiring them to be our nanny, and then we trick them and turn them in." — SPLC's Lecia Brooks https://t.co/qRzaoiNPYX

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) October 19, 2018

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Trump’s new “public charge” regulation would strip immigrant families of their access to healthy food 🍎, health care 🏥, and housing 🏘️. It would make the U.S. a sicker, hungrier, and poorer nation. TAKE ACTION ➡️ https://t.co/gk6SjpsnCg #ProtectFamilies pic.twitter.com/hgpRncogOn

— Immigrant Defense Project (@ImmDefense) October 11, 2018

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Immigration Application Denial Rates Jump 37% Under Trump https://t.co/hnFiHpdE3L via @CatoInstitute

— Marketa Lindt (@marketalindt) November 19, 2018

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Asylum court denial rates are also trending up https://t.co/ehg7jRf8FO

— Prerna P. Lal, Esq. (@prernaplal) November 19, 2018

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The Trump administration waived background checks for all staff working at the largest detention camp for migrant children. https://t.co/oTOFgHeeLQ

— Brave New Films (@bravenewfilms) November 27, 2018

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Not vetting adults who work with children is just another example of government-sanctioned child abuse under the Trump administration. His policies are despicable and disgusting. https://t.co/fpO0wNqoQm

— Brave New Films (@bravenewfilms) November 27, 2018

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September 2, 2018 by V Leigh

Migrant Rights

A Border Patrol agent made a detained Mexican immigrant clean the agent’s truck and then shut him inside it with the air conditioning at full blast as the shivering immigrant broke down in tears. After being arrested, an agent menaced them with a Taser. https://t.co/bvDEypvf7B

— The Appeal (@theappeal) August 14, 2018

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Hours before we'd be in court to argue on their behalf, the government pulled two of our clients — a mom and young child — out of their detention rooms and put them on a plane to El Salvador, where they had fled horrific sexual violence and death threats. https://t.co/Z0m6p0Lgf5

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 9, 2018

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Israel withholds money from African migrants' paychecks and returns it only if they leave the country. https://t.co/jzPho3SFaZ

— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) August 15, 2018

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August 9, 2018 by V Leigh

The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens

Efraín Romero de la Rosa died after 21 days in solitary confinement in Stewart Detention Center. Jean Jiminez-Joseph died after 19 days. Our lawyers work in privately run immigration facilities — including Stewart. This is a pattern of mistreatment.https://t.co/vIVtrdqmeC

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) August 8, 2018

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NEW: The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens, 4 sources with knowledge of the plan tell @NBCNews https://t.co/XoLQ65gQ5H

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 7, 2018

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Don't tell me that "all lives matter" or you believe in "Christian values" or you support "legal immigration" when Trump is adopting Stephen Miller's new plan to block hardworking, taxpaying legal immigrants with green cards from getting their citizenship. https://t.co/7oGIZjUVND

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 7, 2018

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The fact that Stephen Miller is now targeting legal immigrants is absolute proof that this was never about legality, it was always about racism.

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 7, 2018

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Stephen Miller is a white supremacist hell bent on making America whiter. Journalists who refuse to say that are allowing their political correctness culture to distort reality. https://t.co/vOAGvtrFtK

— we're going to abolish ICE (@SeanMcElwee) August 7, 2018

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Flashback to that time Stephen Miller threw a white power sign in the White House briefing room. And yes, that's exactly what the fuck he was doing. pic.twitter.com/fsj6nOefHm

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) August 7, 2018

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More families are being separated by ICE, this is a Bangladeshi family in Connecticut. A sad situation. https://t.co/XzsrxOFIqA https://t.co/XzsrxOFIqA

— BAWDI Women (@BAWDIWomenNJ) August 8, 2018

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August 8, 2018 by V Leigh

The Trump regime did NOT reunite…

The Trump regime did NOT reunite:
* 46 out of 103 children under 5,
* 711 out of 2,551 children 5 to 17,
and they consider themselves done?

How can this be humane or acceptable? They must reunite ALL families and these families should have a chance at asylum!
Where is Congress?

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) July 28, 2018

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Last month in NYC, ICE began denying in-person hearings to immigrants in detention in NYC. They claimed "safety" fears after non-violent protest. We just caught ICE *trying to position family in court to be unable to even see their loved ones via video.* https://t.co/r2q9yZJO1d

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) July 31, 2018

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One father told @RAICESTEXAS yesterdya: "What worries me is that we are restrained from our freedom as human beings. Our children are crying. It is so bad in here, we were told that one of the detainees son tried to hang himself."

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 1, 2018

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An immigration judge was removed from a case and replaced with a judge who would order the man in the case immediately deported, a move that smacks of judicial interference by the Trump admin, according to a letter signed by a group of retired judges. https://t.co/wnJZANDzlW

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 1, 2018

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Last week, I spoke to a grandmother (in a cage) who the government had deemed "ineligible" to stay with her grandchild because she was not his mother.

The boy was shipped off to foster care and in 6 months, can be put up for adoption in Texas.

That’s what “ineligible” means. https://t.co/DkofFDKtNn

— Congressmember Bass (@RepKarenBass) July 27, 2018

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Our client, Gonzalo Chavez, was swept up in an ICE raid in Morristown, TN. When ICE agents didn't believe he had diabetes, he went a week without medicine, leaving him blind in one eye. “I lost everything. I can’t see. I can’t drive.” https://t.co/4LsP52NzT3

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) August 5, 2018

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Texas police are refusing to take an immigrant woman with schizophrenia to hospital because of an ICE hold https://t.co/8cnihdR0qL

— Prerna P. Lal, Esq. (@prernaplal) August 4, 2018

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We demand Secretary Nielsen resign.

In detention

Children have suffered sexual abuse.

Children have suffered physical abuse.

Children have been given psychotropic drugs against their will.

And now a child has died because of negligence during her time in detention. pic.twitter.com/rQ7esZkJxb

— Paola Mendoza (@paolamendoza) August 1, 2018

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Humanitarian aid is essential in the remote desert of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge because dangerous and cruel Border Patrol tactics put migrants lives at risk. The desert should not be a weapon. Read our Disappeared report: https://t.co/pQuViQp1Ss pic.twitter.com/uXetADofS7

— No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) August 5, 2018

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July 24, 2018 by V Leigh

No Human Being is Illegal

“‘They applied injections because he was very agitated,’ Diego said. A person he described as ‘the doctor’ injected Adonias in the middle of a class, Diego said. ‘He would then fall asleep.’” Read this if you care and can. Imagine your child there. https://t.co/3khgLrEhlD

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 16, 2018

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My God.

The Trump administration ordered at least 70 different INFANTS who were separated from their parents to appear in court to defend themselves ALONE.

Many were taken from breastfeeding mothers.

An abomination. Never mention pro-life to me againhttps://t.co/YgFAW8VOqw

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) July 19, 2018

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Sign this petition to demand Congress stop privatizing detention and incarceration of immigrant families and asylum seekers. Sign here: https://t.co/0asK2XVhnd

— glenn robinson (@glncv) July 18, 2018

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This high school wrestler lost his college scholarship after hurling a homophobic slur at an immigration rally pic.twitter.com/8edLOCA34f

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 23, 2018

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Fox News thought they invited a pro-ICE Democrat as a guest.

Instead they got someone who slammed Trump’s immigration policy. https://t.co/DPQ1iVshwA

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 23, 2018

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No Human Being Is Illegal
13 x 13 inches Digital Art Print 2013 https://t.co/FuNkarc9GP pic.twitter.com/XbvjYbpIRn

— favianna rodriguez (@favianna) January 25, 2017

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June 18, 2018 by V Leigh

Happy Father’s Day! Here are ways to take action against families being separated at the border

This Father's Day, I hope that our President and his minions remember that children should be with their parents, not in detention centers https://t.co/pIhcR9ygI1

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) June 17, 2018

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TRUMP HAS 20 CHILDREN PER CAGE – YES CAGE – AT A BORDER PATROL FACILITY.

IN TEXAS WHERE IT IS 100 DEGREES.

AFTER HE RIPPED THEM AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS.

source @AP

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 17, 2018

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Happy Father’s Day! Here are ways to take action against families being separated at the border:https://t.co/VHScZ7Nx7n

— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) June 17, 2018

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AP describes what it’s like inside one of the cages detaining migrant children at the Texas border https://t.co/gPMChwdl9T pic.twitter.com/wpnHv35PGQ

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 17, 2018

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Texas now has a tent city for immigrant children separated from their families at the border pic.twitter.com/4oGE1XEopS

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 17, 2018

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Medical experts are cautioning that there are long-term health risks for migrant children who are separated from their parents, including "irreplaceable harm" to those children's lifelong development. https://t.co/0Mh2xsyKNN

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 17, 2018

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Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror #SoJustTerror https://t.co/ykaA1nKD6b

— Rhonda Ragsdale (@profragsdale) June 17, 2018

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Here's what the "tent city" for separated immigrant children looks like. New @TwitterMoments: https://t.co/umPWcvlc8M

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) June 16, 2018

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Today, we met a man who ICE separated from his 5 yr old daughter. We offered to represent him for free but he couldn’t stand being detained and signed his own deportation. Instead of helping him fight for bond, he asked us to help make sure his 5 yr old would be deported with him

— Al Otro Lado (@AlOtroLado_Org) June 13, 2018

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Dear members of ICE: “just following orders” is what nazis said during the Nuremberg trials. It is YOU who are doing these things. YOU are ripping children from their parents & holding them in cages. History will see that YOU carried out these crimes against humanity. YOU.

— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) June 8, 2018

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According to US Border Patrol, 50 children each day are being separated from their parents. Call your member of Congress. Again and again.

— Judith Enck (@enckj) May 31, 2018

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"I'm not sure why they did it. They didn't let me say goodbye." — Trump's immigration agents ripped Olga's 4 children from her at the border. Now she is in detention and they are thousands of miles away, without her. #FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/W6CYrrond8

— We Belong Together (@WomenBelong) June 2, 2018

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I have nightmares of children crying for their mothers at night. We have to do better. This is NOT OKAY. Imagine these were your children and then DO SOMETHING. Call your members of Congress and demand they act. https://t.co/6Av6CxInHh

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 13, 2018

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I have nightmares of children crying for their mothers at night. We have to do better. This is NOT OKAY. Imagine these were your children and then DO SOMETHING. Call your members of Congress and demand they act. https://t.co/6Av6CxInHh

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 13, 2018

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February 24, 2018 by V Leigh

#DreamActNow – Stand Up for Immigrants

“We’ve heard from children who are afraid to go to school or go outside their homes because they’re scared they will be picked up by ICE and separated from their loved ones." https://t.co/A7mhqqtmy9

— NYCLU (@NYCLU) February 12, 2018

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This father was brought to the U.S. when he was 1 1/2 years old.

When the Trump Administration says dreamers won’t be a priority for deportation, they’re lying.

When they say their deportation policies are about keeping us safe, they’re lying.

We gain nothing from this. https://t.co/0xHUnqHmiw

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 10, 2018

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After Pres. Trump threatened to end funding to “sanctuary” jurisdictions last year, Miami voluntarily capitulated to the administration’s agenda.
As this @cjpmiami report shows, nobody wins when local police are forced to be federal immigration agents:https://t.co/z75pTuxnpX

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 8, 2018

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Time and time again, we’ve seen the lasting harm caused when local police officers begin enforcing immigration law:
*degrading trust between the police and community members,
*decreasing public safety
*and encouraging racial profiling.https://t.co/GXqRXevxMt

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) February 8, 2018

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We got a copy of a draft regulation that could bar immigrants from green cards if they sent their US-born kids to Head Start.

So we're sharing it with you. https://t.co/4zabUqKsNx

— Dara Lind (@DLind) February 9, 2018

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We need your help.

We need you to call ICE demanding the release of Sadat Ibrahim – a queer Black immigrant from Ghana that’s been in detention for over 2 YEARS!

#FreeSadat #UndocuBlack #BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/eRlbS5h84E

— UndocuBlack Network (@UndocuBlack) February 6, 2018

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This young immigrant was sexually assaulted in custody — but ICE won't allow her to get help pic.twitter.com/w4dpmUdmMp

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 24, 2018

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President Trump read the lyrics of an anti-immigrant song called "The Snake," reverting to a campaign staple that he has used to criticize United States' immigration policy https://t.co/R4I2eZuWWc pic.twitter.com/RkiYGyvniv

— CNN (@CNN) February 23, 2018

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Only 9 days left before the March 5th DACA deadline. I’m fighting for #Dreamers like those studying at @LoyolaChicago’s medical school. All they want is to be part of America’s future. Let's keep their dreams alive by passing the #DreamActNow https://t.co/VPSzq929Rx

— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) February 24, 2018

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#Congress: stand up for immigrant youth. Pass the #DreamActNow! pic.twitter.com/VkOMKBwZCk

— MoveOn.org (@MoveOn) February 24, 2018

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