Tag Archives: ICE

All the undocumented farm workers who harvest our food deserve a chance to live without fear of deportation.

Over the past two decades, the United States has put immigration and border enforcement into overdrive, while not allocating adequate resources to the immigration court system. This mismatch leads to long backlogs and delays.

A “New Sanctuary Movement” to pressure President Obama to reevaluate his administration’s deportation policies and for him to act on promised executive action on immigration relief will start next week when more than a dozen places of worship in at least a dozen cities nationwide will begin providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants with deportation orders.

“My deportation date is April 18,” I overheard a woman say next to me in the large white tent where we were both fasting. Due to a simple miscommunication with her lawyer, Lupita received a deportation order that now threatens to send her back to a country she has not visited in more than 20 years.   She has three …