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We Do It For Our Gente: Release Ale Now
Alejandra Pablos is a beloved Mijente member and fierce organizer that has been in ICE custody since March 7th.
ReadUndocumented Activist Targeted by ICE Asks Immigration Judge to Throw Out Case Based on First Amendment
Maru Mora-Villalpando, a Washington-based organizer facing her first immigration court date, files Motion to Terminate her deportation proceedings, citing First Amendment violations.
Read10 Ways to Fight for Ale #ReleaseAle #AlevsICE
One day before International Women’s Day, nationally renowned immigrant rights and reproductive rights organizer and long-time Mijente member Alejandra Pablos was detained by ICE. She is the latest immigrant rights advocate facing deportation and is currently being held without bond at Eloy Detention Center in southern Arizona. Since her detainment last Wednesday, Ale has […]
ReadTrump Supreme Court Gives ICE Power to Hold People Indefinitely, Making Private Prisons Millions
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that U.S. Immigration officials can hold people indefinitely, without receiving bond hearings. Carlos Garcia, Mijente member and Executive Director of Puente Human Rights Movement in Arizona, issued the following statement on behalf of the organizations: “The decision of the Supreme Court will have a permanent impact […]
ReadICE Targets Undocumented Immigrants Who Share Their Story in the Media
February 26th, 2018Immigration agents claimed they pursued activist Maru Mora-Villalpando when they found her name and story in a local newspaper, labeling her an “anti-ICE” activist. The Seattle Field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released documents stating that immigrant rights organizer Maru Mora-Villalpando came to their attention after she “stated that she is ‘undocumented’ in […]
ReadWashington State Sent Information on Undocumented Activist to Immigration Enforcement Agency
February 15th, 2018Documents show the WA Department of Licensing (DOL) shared personal information used in the targeting of activist and mother Maru Mora-Villalpando. See the e-mails from DOL and ICE below. Maru and Washington-based organizers are asking the state and the DOL to take steps to address the harm they have caused all people whose information was [...]
ReadResistance to the Trump Agenda Must Include ICE and the Department of Justice
February 1st, 2018Our resistance to a Trump agenda and our fight for immigrant rights needs to go beyond the halls of Congress. As the White House proposal is exposed as yet another racist puzzle piece in the administration's ploy to advance white supremacist values, we must strategize to also bring down the two agencies that continue [...]
ReadICE Serves Deportation Notice on Undocumented Leader for Organizing Detained Immigrants
January 16th, 2018The recent deportation notice filed against Washington-based immigrant rights activist and mother, Maru Mora-Villalpando, is a clear sign that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is turning into Trump’s secret police and silencing immigrants who fight back. Click here to support Maru and sign her petition. . The Seattle office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has [...]
ReadArpaio Run for Senate is Desperate Attempt to Save Failed Legacy
Phoenix, AZ – This morning the infamous former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that he would be running for United States Senate in the state of Arizona. Carlos Garcia, Executive Director of Puente Human Rights Movement, the organization that has led campaign against Arpaio for the last 10 years for his violent and […]
ReadWhy Is Mijente Mobilizing Latinx for Stacey Abrams?
Endorsement December 12, 2017 As a national political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing, Mijente calls for a mobilization in support of State House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams for Governor of Georgia as part of a pro-Black, pro-Woman, pro-community agenda to show Latinx power, elect progressive candidates of color, and defend US born and immigrant Latinx communities. […]
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