Judge Blocks Deportation of ICE Shooting Victim Wilber Rafael Garces Perez

The attorney representing Wilber Rafael Garces Perez said Tuesday that a federal judge had granted her emergency request to block the Trump administration from deporting the 28-year-old delivery driver, who was shot by an immigration agent Sunday and has since been transferred multiple times between hospitals and a detention center — all while the officer’s bullet reportedly remains lodged in his…
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Networks Make Sure Migrants Have Support When They’re Released From ICE Jails

This June, Haydi Torres found herself on the phone with a stranger in Arizona who wanted to help free Ivan, a 39-year-old Russian man, from the San Luis Regional Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail near Yuma. Ivan had already been granted bond. But by the time an advocate contacted Torres, who is a bond and community associate at Envision Freedom Fund…
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Gabriela Soto Links Miscarriage to Stress of Husband’s ICE Detention

In the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leaders of the May hunger strike at the immigration jail. Martín was transferred to Elizabeth Detention Center, New Jersey’s other ICE facility, during the hunger strike at Delaney. Gabriela is calling for the closure of both facilities.
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