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In a video message that she shot before her arrest and detention, Claudio states she allowed herself to be caught by Customs and Border Protection in an effort to expose the abuses that happen inside immigrant detention centers.  Since Claudia has been detained inside the Calhoun County Jail for the past 10 days, she has witnesses numerous [...]

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Press: we have several former detainees who were released earlier this week that are available to speak to press. Please email media@theniya.org to get in contact with them.  According to the Associated Press, Gary Mead, the Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has resigned, citing the release of [...]

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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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Over the course of the last month, as the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, several undocumented youth have been working hard to infiltrate into select detention centers around the country to see what is really happening inside these detention centers. On June 17th, 2011, President Obama, through ICE director John Morton, issued a memorandum outlining his [...]

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We have 10 deportation cases we are hoping you can help us out with, if you think you can help just click the link for each case and take a minute to sign the petition and to make a phone call. Each of these detainees are being held at the Broward Detention Center and all of them are low-priority cases, the same cases [...]

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On April 24, 2012 , ICE conducted an raid at a Waste Management work site in Houston, TX. Waste Management is a national company that provides garbage, recycling and yard waste services. That morning, a total of 16 workers were detained and taken into immigration custody, none of them had a criminal record. Four of [...]

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Jordana and her mother came to the U.S. on a visa waiver, escaping Argentina’s economic crisis at the time. The visa waiver program allows people from certain countries to come to the U.S. for 90 days without requiring a visa. The catch? You are required to waive your right to review or contest any action [...]

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Check out Jonathan Perez’s blog for the Huffington Post! There I stood in South Louisiana Correctional Center, hundreds of miles away from my home in sunny California. Immigration detention means the end of the line for most undocumented immigrants. But I was not worried when or if I would be released. In the first place, [...]

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On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we begin, as he often liked to do, with a story: It reads like the plot of a Jason Bourne movie – In a time of military dictatorship in a fledgling nation, a journalist hones his craft, intent on publishing articles exposing the actions and hypocrisy of a [...]

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Miguel, an undocumented student, has been in detention at York County Jail in Pennsylvania for over two months now. Please sign the petition to stop his deportation. Miguel was born in El Salvador and was brought to the United States when he was only 9 years old. He has lived in the United States for [...]

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