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The Deferred Action Waiver Fund (otherwise known as “DACAF”) is a fund set up to award undocumented activists with a scholarship to cover the fee associated with applying for Deferred Action. We recognize that many of the activists we work with on a daily basis do not have the financial means to apply for Deferred [...]

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We received this letter from detainees at the Broward Detention Center. The letter was signed by 428 detainees currently held at the facility. The facility houses just over 700 individuals; 600 men and 100 women. We did not ask for this letter, rather detainees took initiative to draft it and send it to us on [...]

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We just found out that Wasington, a HIV+ Brazilian DREAMer, is set to be deported this Thursday at 9:00pm. Wasington has been detained for 4-months inside the KROME detention center in Florida. He was detained while on probation for entering what he thought was an abandoned building. Wasington’s partner has been in touch with Senator [...]

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We have several medical emergencies out of the Broward Detention Center and it seems like ICE is just going to do what it does best; ignore them and hope they just go away. All of these men have been told by doctors that it is a risk for them to be detained, but ICE continues [...]

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Oregon is one of the many states that doesn’t allow undocumented migrants to obtain a Driver License. This wasn’t always the case though; it wasn’t until November of 2007 that our former Democratic governor issued an executive order removing licenses! I was 21-years old when this happened. I remember seeing the fear in my families [...]

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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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This is an entry from MarcoX at UndocumentedOhio. Marco, along with Viridiana, infiltrated the Broward Detention Center July of this year. A great piece. Me contaron que estabas enamorada de otro y entonces me fui a mi cuarto y escribí ese artículo contra el Gobierno por el que estoy preso. – Ernesto Cardenal You wanna [...]

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The Deferred Action Waiver Fund (otherwise known as “DACAF”) is a fund set up to award undocumented activists with a scholarship to cover the fee associated with applying for Deferred Action. We recognize that many of the activists we work with on a daily basis do not have the financial means to apply for Deferred [...]

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The Deferred Action Waiver Fund (otherwise known as “DACAF”) is a fund set up to award undocumented activists with a scholarship to cover the fee associated with applying for Deferred Action. The Department of Homeland Security has set this fee at $465. We recognize that many of the activists we work with on a daily [...]

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We need your help, over the course of the last two months we’ve been running a project we call the Florida Detention Camp. This project entails having 5 or 6 organizers living in Lake Worth, Florida (24/7) and working with families of those detained at the Broward Detention Center. In order to keep this project [...]

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