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More Than 120 Central Americans Taken Into Custody In Large-Scale Deportation Raid
Don’t open your door. Ask for a warrant when a stranger knocks on your door. Memorize the phone numbers of relatives and lawyers.
These are just some of the pieces of advice that immigrant advocates have been giving Central Americans who entered the country after May 2014, now that the Obama administration has begun an aggressive immigration operation targeting them for deportation in the new year.
Why Hundreds Of Immigrant Detainees Are Refusing To Eat
Over the past month, hundreds of immigrant detainees have stopped eating.
This act of civil disobedience began in Texas, when 54 South Asian detainees seeking asylum began a hunger strike calling to be released from the El Paso Processing Center. In solidarity, 14 South Asian detainees at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana and 27 immigrant women at the T Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas launched their own hunger strikes. And in the latest wave, hundreds of immigrant men are refusing meals at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California.
After ICE Took An Undocumented Grandfather Into Custody, An Immigrant Advocate Mobilized Thousands
Apolinar Sanchez Cornejo is a 67-year-old undocumented grandfather from Mexico who has lived in California since 1992 and works in an auto repair shop. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took him into custody in an early morning raid at his house. By noon, Sanchez Cornejo was put into deportation proceedings.