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@leedsgarcia
Aug 24, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Important thread below about a horrific human rights tragedy happening that no one is paying attention about, PLEASE PLEASE read through it: 👇🏽#ForBlackMauritanians
Mauritanians fled to the United States in the 90’s 00’s seeking asylum. Many were granted the ability to lawfully stay here due to the live-endangering risk of return, but many others missed the 1 year deadline due to not understanding our legal system, getting bad advice, etc 2/
Because things are so bad for black Mauritanians and it would be dangerous to send them back, ICE put those without status under orders of supervision to stay here but check in with the govt regularly. Well, now we have a new ICE with new rules 3/
So this is where it reall gets messed up: An immigrant cannot be deported unless he has a legal travel document from the country he is being deported to. Under prior U.S. Admins, the Mauritanian govt refused to issue travel documents to Black Mauritanians
..living in the US, cuz they did not consider them to be Mauritanian citizens! Now cuz they’re scared of Trump they’re issuing a temporary thing but it still results in the black Mauritanians being undocumented when they’re back in their country of birth!
This makes them incredibly vulnerable and under risk of arrest and SLAVERY upon their return! Estimates are that 20% of Mauritanians are enslaved! We are literally deporting people into slavery or worse! #ForBlackMauritanians
So what can we do? My friends at @UndocuBlack & @AmericasVoice tell me that 40 Mauritanians are currently detained in ICE detention centers and 100s have final orders of removal at risk of being detained soon. We need to help them! Pls help raise awareness #ForBlackMauritanians!
Also we’ve heard that all of the deportation flights are going through Morocco on @RAM_Maroc flights. Ask them to stop being complicit in deporting black Mauritanians into slavery!
Another way you can get loud #ForBlackMauritanians is to call your US Senators, and all of the house members in Ohio. Ohio is home to a large population of these individuals at risk.
Please follow my pals @tramontela @UndocuBlack_Pat @AmericasVoice @UndocuBlack @JayesGreenJ as this develops! It’s so important! #ForBlackMauritanians
Here's an article about a man #SeyniDiagne who unfortunately was deported this week despite attempts by activists to stop the deportation plane out of Dulles airport. #ForBlackMauritanians
washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk…

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Sep 6, 2018
Scanning through Flores reg - will highlight pieces in this thread below. PG 2: "Most prominently, the rule would create an alternative to the existing licensed program requirement for family residential centers, so that ICE may use appropriate facilities to detain family units"
This part is basically them arguing that they need a licensing workaround to be able to build more jails that house moms and kids. You know, like the ones where that 3 year old recently died after leaving the conditions there. #FamiliesBelongTogether
Just highlighting this "her" here, as a reminder that our DHS Sec is @SecNielsen and she is seeking to build more prisons for kids and still hasn't been held accountable for ripping children from their parents in the first place. #FamiliesBelongTogether
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Aug 15, 2018
DACA litigation update thread - it's not really news, but helps give continued context, so DOJ just filed in the DC litigation. As a reminder, the DC litigation is the one that a couple weeks ago went above & beyond the 9th & 2nd Circuit injunctions & told the govt. to....1/
not only keep renewals going, but to restart the ability for NEW DACA applications to be filed. This would be like teenagers who are 15 and wanting to get work authorization, driver's licenses, etc. Anyway - this was a big victory led by Microsoft, Princeton, NAACP, etc. 2/
plane wifi sucks, I may be another 20 min on the rest of this sorry lol.....but basically the govt. argues that they'll have harm by having to manage mailboxes and that would be against the public interest. I generally think teenagers raised in America not having access to 3/
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Jul 11, 2018
Some of the logistics involved in helping a reunited family upon reunification:

The place of reunification (of the ones that happened yesterday) is based on wherever the govt sent the child when they took the child from that parent at the Southern border (anywhere in US)

1/
Remember when we said kids were being sent everywhere without their parents, well they were. So now that they are under the government's oversight as they pursue their asylum claims, where they are reunified is not where this family likely ends up. 2/
So once someone is reunited, it's kinda like we don't care where we put you in jail or took your child to this is where you end up while you pursue your claims. Go forth & figure it out. It's the NGO community that is doing what it can to be supportive after that moment 3/
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Jul 9, 2018
When the govt starts to pat itself on the back for reuniting small babies on Tuesday please remember the following:

1. The only reason they’re doing this is because the litigators at the ACLU got a court order mandating it.

Thread👇🏽

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2. They’ve openly admitted to not being able to fully account for where the parents of the 4&under kids. And so they’ll only be helping an estimate 50% of those 2/
3. As in they’ve likely deported parents of nonverbal infants who ya know can’t say their names to caseworkers n such 3/
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Jul 2, 2018
We must stop this! #FamiliesBelongTogether & Free
texasobserver.org/new-1000-bed-i…
Call/email these people & ask them to stop this:

County Judge — Hon. Aurelio "Keter" Guerra
Office (956) 689-3393
aurelio.guerra@co.willacy.tx.us

County Commissioner Precinct 1 — Hon. Eliberto "Beto" Guerra Office (956) 689-4214
roseanna.ramirez@co.willacy.tx.us
County Commissioner Precinct 2 — Hon. Oscar Deluna
Office (956) 689-4214
cindy.concha@co.willacy.tx.us

County Commissioner Precinct 3 — Hon. Henry De La Paz
Office (956) 689-4214
henry.delapaz@co.willacy.tx.us
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Jul 2, 2018
We need to get these mothers out of Hutto & reunited with their children! Please read these heart breaking accounts from women inside this detention center. #FamiliesBelongTogether thread 1/
latimes.com/nation/la-na-i…
One mother writes "“We beg you to help us, return our children. Our children are very desperate. My son asks me to get him out and I’m powerless here.” latimes.com/nation/la-na-i… #FamiliesBelongTogether
Another mom writes: "It’s been a month since they snatched him away and there are moments when I can’t go on" #ReuniteThe2300
latimes.com/nation/la-na-i…
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