News and Annoucements
February 23, 2012
Families for Freedom is a New York-based multi-ethnic defense network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation. Read more
Event
**LISTENING ALERT**
War on Immigrants Report
February 16, 2012
10-12pm
WBAI Fund Drive Edition
WHAT: War on Immigrants Report, a segment of Global Movement, Urban Struggles on Pacifica Radio
News and Annoucements
February 13, 2012
Some may say that we fully entered the 21st century in 2011 with the launch of our new website, a new @familiesfreedom twitter account, an electronic newsletter, a re-designed print newsletter, a new logo, War on Immigrants Report Radio Podcast, a Vimeo Video channel, A flickr photo page and a hyped up Facebook.
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News and Annoucements
February 13, 2012
For years we have known that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been has been aggressively conducting transportation raids on Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses many miles away from the border. Back in 2008 we organized with families who were targeted for deportation after riding on Amtrak and Greyhound to hold the travel companies accountable for taking passengers money and not warning them that they may be interrogated, arrested and detained by immigration officials. In 2011, we had a breakthrough in highlighting CBP's unconstitutional practices including engaging in racial profiling and overstepping their jurisdiction, leading to increased deportations and the shattering of many families. To read the report, press and history of our work organizing against CBP click read more.
In the Media
February 13, 2012
On a sweltering afternoon in the heart of bustling downtown Monrovia, Moriba Kamara’s bony, chafed hands shake as he talks about his months inside a Liberian maximum-security prison. “I didn’t sleep. I was always afraid.” He feared he would not make it out alive and was constantly thinking, “Maybe this is the place [I’ll] be taken to be assassinated.”
Kamara’s eyes well up as he remembers how “the whole day we [were] locked up, the whole night we [were] locked up. We had no access to go to recreation, nothing.” He and his fellow prisoners were forced to defecate in a bucket inside their cell, which often overflowed. “I got dysentery,” he recalls. “I tried to talk to the prison director to take me to the hospital, but they said no.”
Kamara was one of twenty-two deportees expelled from the United States to Liberia in December 2008 by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Some had served time in US jails for minor offenses. Others, like Kamara, had committed no crime. But for reasons that were unclear to them, all were labeled a security threat upon arriving in Liberia’s capital city.
News and Annoucements
February 06, 2012
News and Annoucements
February 06, 2012
Congratulations to our Fall 2011 Speakers Bureau Graduates: Monica Novoa, Joe Chen, Abraham Paulous, Iris Haddad and Andalusia Soloff. All participants completed a 10 week course learning about how and why immigrants are criminalized by the deportation system, presentation and spokesperson skills and how we can FIGHT BACK individually and collectively.
News and Annoucements
January 27, 2012
In the Media
January 18, 2012
Since the divestment campaign began on May 12, 2011. CCA’s stock value dropped from $26.02 to $20.67, a 21% drop at year’s end. Geo Group stock has taken a similar plunge, from a high of $26.12 on May 12 to $16.75 on December 31, 2011, a drop of over 34%.
News and Annoucements
January 18, 2012