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Victoria needs your help. She is scheduled to be deported on Wednesday. Last year, just like many in deportation proceedings Victoria was given deferred action. Now, despite once previously granting her case, ICE is basically telling Victoria to pack her belongings and show up at ICE tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6th, for deportation. Victoria is not [...]

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Last week we launched a petition asking for John Morton, the Director of ICE, to be fired because of his agencies role in going after the family of an activist. Today we have more of the same news; yesterday ICE retaliated against a detained man, Luis de la Cruz ICE: Why Are You Retaliating Against [...]

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Meet Carlos Rodriguez; for the past 3-months he’s been held prisoner in the Florida immigration jail known as the Broward Detention Center. All this despite being a perfect Dreamer candidate for DACA! In September Carlos was stopped for a broken brake-light; once stopped the officer noticed his license plate belonged to another vehicle and he [...]

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***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** December 31, 2012 media@theniya.org   NIYA Calls for New Obama Policy to be Applied to Detention Centers A good policy that should be enacted in good faith  NATIONAL—The National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) applauds the recent decision by the Obama Administration to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants who will be incarcerated for [...]

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On Saturday Oscar was moved from Florida all the way to Texas for deportation to Nicaragua. Oscar is yet another case where someone is detained by ICE for nothing more than seeking help from the police. In early August, on his way home from work, Oscar was attacked; he was robbed and hit in the [...]

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Kat Stacks is her online persona and her real name is Andrea Herrera; she’s been detained in a Louisiana detention center for exactly 2-years today. She’s not only a DREAMer but as a minor she was also the victim of sex-trafficking. Despite all of this ICE is refusing to release her to the care of [...]

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When Manuel was 17 he was at a party with his younger brother when everything went wrong; his brother was shot and left for dead. Manuel rushed his brother to the hospital but it was too late, he was dead. Now 23, Manuel remembers this as a life-changing event in his life; he went from [...]

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On June 15th, Henry was taking a shower when a group of detainees turned off all the lights in the shower, threatened him with a blade, and proceeded to sexually assault him. In shock and fear, Henry returned to his room but the pain got to be too much to bear so he went to [...]

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Thank you for all of your calls and petition signatures these past few weeks, it seems like our work at the Broward Detention Center is paying off. On Monday two people were released. On Tuesday we had more news, this time not all good. Julio Blanco was deported, despite having a clean record and being [...]

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Last week you helped us get Cipriano out of detention, now his friend Cesar Leon needs the same help. Cesar is currently being detained in the same detention center that Cipriano was held at, the Broward Transitional Center. Cesar has been detained since April 20th, that makes 82 days of detention as of today! Cesar and [...]

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