richincolor:

Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages

Via Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages: “Please join us in protesting this attack on immigrant families by
donating to the following causes. You can allocate your donation to go
equally between the groups below, or choose the distribution you’d
prefer. You can also add your name to our statement using this link and see everyone who has already signed here.”

The Florence Project – providing legal & social services to detained immigrants in Arizona https://firrp.org/

ACLU – fighting attacks through the legal system http://www.aclu.org

RAICES — offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families in Texas. https://www.raicestexas.org/

Womens
Refugee Commission – advocating for the rights and protection of women,
children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/

Kids
In Need of Defense (KIND) – protecting unaccompanied children who enter
the US immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in
court without an attorney. https://supportkind.org/

Al Otro Lado – serves indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana & Los Angeles https://www.alotrolado.org

Head on over to the Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages donation page to support and defend vulnerable immigrant families.

Re-upping in light of recent current events. Donate to these orgs if you are able! ⬆️

Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now

raedusoleil:

It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.

Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.

The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.

The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae Ngai, during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.

There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.

Are asylum seekers crossing into Canada illegally? A look at facts behind the controversy

allthecanadianpolitics:

[…]Canada received about 50,000 refugee claimants last year. Though that is about double 2016 levels, by way of context, “this is literally one day in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, during the peak of the Rohingya crisis,” said the UNHCR’s Canada representative Jean-Nicolas Beuze.

“When we’re speaking about a crisis, a crisis of refugees does exist – but it’s not in Canada, it’s not in the U.S., and it’s not in Europe. The big numbers remain in the developing world, whether it’s Bangladesh, Uganda, Lebanon – those are the countries that are facing a refugee crisis.”

[…]

A political debate has raged over language and whether asylum seekers crossing between official points are entering Canada illegally. The term “irregular” is viewed by some as vague jargon and a euphemism. The use of “illegal” (Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls them “illegal border crossers”) is seen by others as inflammatory and dehumanizing.

Legal experts say Canada’s immigration laws are clear: “They’re not illegal border crossers,” said James Hathaway, founding director of the University of Michigan’s program in refugee and asylum law, who is Canadian, and a leading global authority on refugee law.

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Are asylum seekers crossing into Canada illegally? A look at facts behind the controversy