Migrant justice activists are celebrating the bill’s introduction but worry the legislative process will weaken it.
Immigration
While the new language has been praised, advocates are calling for Biden to take concrete action: Stop deporting people.
Anti-Blackness is baked into the immigration system, and ICE has merely operationalized it.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden announced that Trump’s initial order “was unwarranted.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including 22 children.
Let’s push for immediate amnesty and path to citizenship for all immigrants, whether or not they are deemed “essential.”
A new report outlines dozens of incidents in which Border Patrol left migrants en route to the U.S. to die.
Notorious for lethal medical neglect, Stewart Detention Center has turned particularly deadly amid the COVID pandemic.
Hundreds have been deported in the last week, even as Biden signed several executive orders undoing Trump’s policies.
More than 600 children remain separated from their families due to the prior administration’s zero tolerance policy.