Saturday, September 28, 2019

Judge Blocks Trump Rules on Detaining Families and Children


By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.

U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles said the rules conflict with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the government to release immigrant children caught on the border as quickly as possible to relatives in the U.S. and says they can only be held in facilities licensed by a state.

Gee said the Flores agreement —named for a teenage plaintiff— will remain in place and govern the conditions for all immigrant children in U.S. custody, including those with their parents.

“The agreement has been necessary, relevant, and critical to the public interest in maintaining standards for the detention and release of minors arriving at the United States’ borders,” the judge wrote in her decision.

“Defendants willingly negotiated and bound themselves to these standards for all minors in its custody, and no final regulations or changed circumstances yet merit termination of the Flores agreement.”

The Trump administration sought to end the agreement and issued the new rules with the hope of detaining immigrant children in facilities with their parents. The move came as part of a broader crackdown on asylum seekers arriving on the Southwest border, many of them families with children from Central America.

The Flores agreement allows for the settlement to be phased out when rules are issued for the custody of immigrant children that are consistent with its terms.


Tales from the Border

Friday, September 27, 2019

Close the Camps Campaign


Here is the campaign.

http://closethecampsoct.org

Stop the War on Immigrants --
A Call to Action on October 12
From the day he took office, Donald Trump escalated a failed and cruel immigration policy into
an all-out war against immigrants, banning Muslims, slamming the door on refugees, tearing
children from their parents' arms.
Each new affront has been met with outrage and protest, but even when he has retreated, Trump
has sought new lines of attack: concentration camps, workplace raids, new bars to green cards
and citizenship.
Meanwhile many immigrants are being terrorized in their own communities, afraid to answer the
door, take children to school, or go to work. These communities need to see and feel the
solidarity of the majority that stands with them.
We call on all those who oppose the raids, family separation, deportations and incarceration to
unite against this reign of racist persecution.
It is time to say, "¡Basta Ya!" Enough is enough!
This indigenous people's day weekend let us act together --whether with a march, vigil, rally or
direct action-- against those who would give us a future of division and white supremacist hate.
Let us unite in broad regional coalitions drawing together people of faith, unions, anti-nativist
fighters and other progressives to target camps, jails, shelters or other parts of Trump's
anti-immigrant, deportation machinery.
Let us act in the knowledge that no human being is illegal anywhere, not least in a country
formed through violent colonialism.
Most of all let us open our arms to immigrants in our country or at our borders with a greeting of
friendship:
Mi casa es tu casa.

Our home is also your home.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Migrant Families Sue Trump for Family Separation

Migrant families sue over extraordinary harms of family separation. Truthout: “Five asylum-seeking families have sued the government for the ‘substantial and ongoing trauma’ they say they suffered after being separated from one another when they crossed the border from Mexico into Arizona last year. The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on behalf of five mothers and their children, all from Guatemala, who were separated in May 2018 and kept apart for at least two months, during which the mothers had little to no communication with their children. Although all of the families have since been reunited and now reside in the U.S., they still grapple with lingering emotional damage their attorneys say 'was no incidental byproduct of the policy” of the family separation enforced by the Trump administration last year.'"

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Close the Camps - October




National campaign to Close the Camps- October. DSA in conjunction with Close the Camps and other groups. DSA’s Immigrant Rights Working Group asks all chapters to mobilize demonstrations against the migrant detention centers. See-
http://closethecampsoct.org

Stop the War on Immigrants --
A Call to Action on October 12
From the day he took office, Donald Trump escalated a failed and cruel immigration policy into
an all-out war against immigrants, banning Muslims, slamming the door on refugees, tearing
children from their parents' arms.
Each new affront has been met with outrage and protest, but even when he has retreated, Trump
has sought new lines of attack: concentration camps, workplace raids, new bars to green cards
and citizenship.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

The U.S. Has Disappeared More than 42,000 Migrants

The U.S. Has Disappeared More Than 42,000 Migrants

Remain in Mexico,” allows the U.S. government to push most non-Mexican asylum seekers into Mexico once immigration officials have cleared them to make an asylum claim. As of early September, the number of people forced into Mexico under MPP had reportedly risen to more than 42,000.
Immigration authorities say that these migrants are able to pursue their asylum cases while waiting in Mexico, but this is nonsense. It’s difficult for impoverished asylum seekers to get legal representation even while inside the United States; from across the border, it’s virtually impossible. At the end of June, a grand total of 1.3 percent of these asylum-seekers had succeeded in finding a lawyer, according to an August report by the U.S. nonprofit Human Rights First. So far, only one of the applicants is known to have won asylum.
Read the article.

Symposium on Immigration and Family Separation


Symposium on Immigration and Family Separation 
UC Davis Health Latino Staff and Faculty Association


Date: Sept. 20, 2019
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Betty Irene Moore Hall, 2570 48th St., Suite 1000, Sacramento
Contact Information: hs-lsfa@ucdavis.edu

5:30pm                 Networking, Food will be provided for the first 50 attendees
6:00pm                 Welcome
6:05pm                 Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Keynote, Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis Health
6:25pm                 Liliana Ferrer, Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento
6:45pm                 Holly S. Cooper, Co-Director, Immigration Law Clinic at UC Davis
7:05pm                 Question and Answer Session 
7:30pm                 Closing remarks

Please join the UC Davis Health Latino Staff and Faculty Association (LSFA) to a symposium on the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border and the impact of family separation and immigration issues in the Latino community. Guest speakers will discuss their recent visit to the holding facilities at the border and legal work. 

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Governor: Sign the Bill


Interfaith Action and Prayer at Gov. Newsom's Office doorstep. 10:30 am. Meet on North steps of Capitol. To encourage him to sign  AB32- end for profit prisons and detention centers in California.

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Root Causes of Migration - Tuesday



Ismael Moreno Coto, SJ

“Padre Melo” 

will discuss the root causes of mass 
migration from Central America, focusing on the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras. 


Sponsored by
Sacramento Solidarity with Honduras Coalition

St. Francis of Assisi
Pathways for Justice

St. Ignatius Parish

Unitarian Universalist SS

Sacramento Area
Congregations 
Together

Racine Dominican Sisters












Date and Time: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 7:00 PM

Location: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 
Enter on 27th Street for Free Parking 

Cultural Presentation TBA

Reception to follow

International Human Rights Award Winner
Director of Radio Progreso and ERIC-SJ 
(center for reflection, research, and communications) in Honduras

Free Will Offering