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Drop the I-Word Campaign. Please sign.

We launched the Drop the I-Word campaign in September 2010 to eliminate use of the dehumanizing slur “illegal” to describe immigrants. By Spring 2013, the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other news outlets dropped the i-word, affecting millions of readers daily nationwide.

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No human is illegal.

#Discrimination Tweets 11.5
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#Discrimination Tweets 11.5

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Response to Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists, drug dealers, and criminals”

July 9, 2015- Congressman Gutiérrez responds to the recent comments by Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists, drug dealers, and criminals” and calls attention to how the inaction of the Republican Party on immigration perpetuates unsafe communities. He addresses the recent tragedy in San Francisco and argues that a system where people are able to come out of the shadows and identify themselves along with a criminal background would increase safety for all. “Unfortunately, that is exactly the system that some Republicans have been fighting against.”

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Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of some immigrants

A federal judge  ruled Friday that Texas officials can continue to deny U.S. birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally.

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Discovery of up to 50 bodies in truck highlights European migrant crisis

Austrian authorities launched an international probe into the deaths, as they struggled to count the corpses.

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Freedom to (im)migrate.

Freedom to leave.

Freedom to return.

Freedom of movement.

#DonaldTrump #DumpTrump Tweets 7.14
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#DonaldTrump #DumpTrump Tweets 7.14

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I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One

By Satsuki Ina, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento

 

Last summer, the Obama administration announced its plans to open new immigrant family detention centers in response to the wave of women and children fleeing violence in Central and South America and seeking asylum in the United States. The ACLU  and other advocacy groups quickly opposed the White House’s policy because of the harm it would inflict on already traumatized women and children.

 

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Mexico ‘a death trap for migrants’ one year after new border program launched

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Honduran migrant Gerardo Cruz never saw the face of the man who pushed him off the train’s ladder as he rode through Chontalpa, Mexico. But through the black of that March night, 20-year-old Cruz said he could make out the white lettering of “Policía Federal” or “Federal Police” on the man’s dark blue uniform.

When Cruz fell, he said, his left arm landed on the tracks and the train’s wheels severed his limb.

“The government officials were the cause of this problem,” Cruz said of his injury, speaking in Spanish. “There should be compensation because this is a crime.”

Mexico’s Southern Border Program was launched in July 2014 in response to an influx of Central American migrants crossing through Mexico, creating a crisis that included tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors arriving at the US border. The program was designed to manage Mexico’s 750-mile border with Guatemala and Belize while protecting migrants settled in the country or en route to the US.

Yet abuses against migrants by both criminal gangs and authorities are actually spiking, according to humanitarian organizations working in Mexico.

“The Southern Border Plan was created — supposedly — to give security to the people coming from countries in Central America, but that’s not true,” said Chiapas-based immigration lawyer Elvira Gordillo.

“Instead of ensuring the safety of migrants, much more violations of human rights in all forms are being committed,” she said to a delegation of activists, religious leaders and lawyers from Los Angeles as they gathered in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.

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