(Im)migration and Refugee History, Rights & Countering Xenophobia

Two weeks before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was expected to start a “Citizens Academy,” the federal agency announced it was postponing it because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The guidance would've barred foreign students from participating in online-only coursework during the fall semester.

Activist organizations are issuing step-by-step guidance to undocumented immigrants- advising them on what to do if ICE tries to apprehend them. CNN's Polo Sandoval explains.

People inside ICE detention centers report that conditions are putting them at grave risk for contracting #COVID19. Immigrant rights activist Gabriela Castañeda, whom we follow in our forthcoming film BORDERLAND, says that now, more than ever, is the time to #FreeThemAll to ensure that the basic rights and dignity of all people are respected. ***You can help free people in detention*** 1. Take action with this Detention Watch Network Covid-19 Toolkit: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/covid-19 2. Support local organizations like: Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee and Advocate Visitors With Immigrants in Detention: https://avid.chihuahuan.org/

Footage from a privately run immigration detention center in California shows eight men linking arms in a hunger strike. Officers responded with pepper spray, saying the men were inciting "rebellion."

Central American families arrived in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez disoriented and disconsolate; many didn’t realize they were being expelled from the U.S.

On Monday, 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro escorted a dozen asylum seekers to the U.S. port of entry at Brownsville, Texas, in a challenge to President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The group included a disabled Salvadoran woman and her relatives, as well as nine LGBTQ people from Cuba, Guatemala and Honduras. Many of them report they’ve been threatened and assaulted while they’ve been forced to wait in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. The asylum seekers were refused entry into the United States. Castro speaks with us from San Antonio, where he served as mayor from 2009 to 2014. #DemocracyNow Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554 Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

All immigrants, undocumented and documented, in the U.S. have certain rights under the Constitution. Learn about your rights and how your family can best prepare for an encounter with immigration enforcement. Find more resources and Know Your Rights materials on Informed Immigrant: http://bit.ly/2oZOre9 ______________ InformedImmigrant.com is a coalition-led aggregated resource hub with information on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), legal service providers, Know Your Rights materials, community organizing toolkits, family preparedness plans, and local organizations in all 50 states. The FAQs are vetted by lawyers and the resources are sourced from leading local and national immigration organizations all in one easy place. The Informed Immigrant umbrella also includes an offline Ambassadors program to bring the Informed Immigrant resources into communities that may lack Internet access or fluency.

Alejandra's family fled persecution in Chile and came to the United States. Alejandra overcame challenges as a young adult and is a leader for many in the addiction recovery community and a mother. She now fights against her deportation with help from the legal team at NIJC because of a decades old mistake. This video premiered at the 2020 Human Rights Awards.

Love brings a family together. Will a system tear them apart? Una familia unida por amor. ¿Logrará un sistema separarlos? Every year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children flee violence in Central America to seek asylum in the US. The journey is never easy-- and once they arrive, there are no guarantees that they’ll be able to stay. Paper Children follows one family’s struggle to build a better future in America despite overwhelming circumstances. Cada año, decenas de miles de niños no acompañados huyen de la violencia en Centroamérica en búsqueda de asilo en EEUU. El camino nunca es fácil y una vez que llegan a su destino, no hay ninguna garantía de que podrán permanecer en el país. Niños de Papel documenta la lucha de una familia para construir un mejor futuro en EEUU a pesar de los grandes obstáculos que debe enfrentar. The views and opinions expressed in this documentary are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any YouTube/Google entity. Las opiniones en este documental son de los participantes y no reflejan necesariamente la posición oficial de ninguna entidad de YouTube / Google. 0:00 Catholic Legal Services 3:00 Fernando’s Story 8:43 Living In Hell 13:28 Navigating The System 19:08 Family Life 25:40 Set Backs 30:30 Mad World 40:20 The Struggle Continues 47:13 The Courts 55:10 New Beginnings

Survival stories from three former prisoners who were detained in a Chinese “reëducation” camp.

A recent surge in child migration to the United States from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence.

The Florida Department of Corrections will begin carrying out certain federal immigration enforcement tasks in a new partnership with ICE, becoming the latest agency to join a controversial program that immigrant advocates have decried as overreaching.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value.

People "are facing murder, rape, and other violence ... in shockingly high numbers," according to a new report. The group is calling on the White House to expand access to asylum.

Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.

ICE is spending nearly $400,000 to build a training facility featuring "hyper-realistic" replicas of Arizona neighborhoods at an Army post in Georgia.

A complaint alleges unsafe treatment and conditions at a migrant detention centre in Georgia, US.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The racist, xenophobic and anti-immigrant policies of President Donald Trump and his senior advisor Stephen Miller act as gasoline on the fire of abuse suffered by undocumented immigrant women. For the roughly 30,000 people imprisoned by ICE, concerted, unrelenting public pressure, to force their release amidst this deadly pandemic, is needed now more than ever.

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A recent return of pre-Columbian objects to Mexico from a small town historical museum has raised questions about whether US agencies are encouraging citizens to give up privately owned objects for which there is no

The House Homeland Security Committee convened in Mississippi for a field hearing on Thursday, looking into the impacts of the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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BuzzFeed News has obtained thousands of pages of documents from internal investigations of deaths of immigrants held in ICE custody.

Top officials in the US Justice Department were the "driving force" behind President Donald Trump's controversial zero tolerance immigration policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their families, according to a draft of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation report reviewed by The New York Times.

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general concluded that there was no clear reason for ICE to exist at all.

Advocates briefed senators on allegations that a doctor working with an ICE detention center performed unnecessary or overly aggressive procedures.

Dismantling the government's immigration-enforcement agency isn't as straightforward as the slogan suggests.