#migrant detention center

[the-peruvian-whovian]

There's no coming back from this. There is no justification. This will always be their legacy. The world will never forget this and I won't let it.

#people who harm children don't deserve to have them. #I said this about what happened to the migrant children in the detention centers on the u.s/Mexico border #and I'll say it about what's happening to Palestinian children. #may both the nation-states responsible for these international atrocrities against children face the deepest consequences #dismemberment #amputation #mass disabling event #mass paedocide #violence against children #palestine #gaza #gaza genocide #disability #disability justice #war crimes #israel

[tacticalgrandma]

Today in things I’d be searching on JSTOR if I was still at a university: every protest/resistance movement started by migrants held in US detention

#for my undergrad thesis i wrote abt one at guantanamo in the 90s #& a hunger strike by haitian migrants at a florida detention center in the 80s #but i was looking specifically for the intersection of xenophobia & infectious disease w that #& i just finished a podcast abt a hostage crisis at a prison holding cuban refugees who were in complete legal limbo #it’s called white lies it’s quite good #anyway. i think these events can vanish in history v easily #but just finding them stumbling across them/doing undergrad lvl research #makes me wonder how many there are thruout our history

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Lizz Toledo 

As activists for reproductive justice, we have to continue to emphasize that the fundamental civil rights to abortion, procreation, bodily autonomy and parenting are deeply linked. All reproductive autonomy is simultaneously under attack, especially in the context of the poor, Black, Indigenous, migrants, trans people and people of color.

#AbortionBan #forced sterilization #immigrants #refugees #ICE #detention centers #migrants #racism #rape #Border Patrol #imperialism #bodily autonomy #abortion rights #Struggle La Lucha

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

Urgent help needed today (26 Feb) for migrant student facing removal from his course and the UK

Muhammad is a postgraduate student at University of Stirling (UK). Last year he was detained under horrific conditions in a detention center on bogus charges. His university hasn’t helped at all with his living costs or tuition fees and has used mental health meetings to hound him for his tuition. Now they say they’re removing him from his course tomorrow, Tuesday 27th February, just months before his graduation date. This will also end his visa and force him to leave the country.

Unis Resist Border Controls have given four urgent actions to help Muhammad TODAY (Monday 26th). Please take action and share widely! If you have an university email address and are comfortable, use that when writing to the vice chancellor.

Links from the graphics:

Twitter handles: @StirUni, @GerryMcCormac

Instagram handles: @universityofstirling, @gerrymac9753

VC phone: [phone]

VC email: [email protected]

Doughnation link: https://gofund.me/783415a8

You can find a video summarizing his situation here.

#ukhe #immigration #academia

[lost-and-created]

Consider the following:

The treatment of the unhoused/poor, including making being unhoused a crime.

The rising inability to afford housing, groceries, and utilities, even with full-time jobs that pay more than the minimum wage.

The genocide occuring in Palestine and the use of US funded weapons to commit it.

Rising rates of Neo-Nazis, antisemitism, and islamophobia.

The beating of a trans, Native American child at a public school, which resulted in death, being praised by an active senator who called trans people filth, when addressing the issue (Rest in Peace, Nex).

Trans people increasingly having their rights, especially to healthcare, taken.

Women increasingly having their rights to healthcare taken.

The migrants who are fleeing their home countries, leading them to the US-Mexico border, are being met with police violence, razor wire, and detention centers that have been reported to separate and "lose" children, as well as treat those within its walls with cruel amounts of negligence.

The subways of New York becoming flooded with cops and National Guard, making it a police state checkpoint for anyone that enters.

Police being able to justify the murder of a Black, autistic teenager, in front of his family.

However, the US government has deemed TikTok to be the largest threat to the nation and is the issue that they can all, collectively, agree on. Certainly can't be because it's been the main place for younger people to find current news that isn't gripped by corporate media. Can't be because it's a place for people to find information on the continued boycotts, divestments, and protests that are currently occurring and costing corporations millions of dollars, effecting how much those corporations can lobby their representatives. Can't be because it is the place people often go to when mainstream media refuses to cover the big stories that would otherwise be pushed under the rug. Can't be because our representatives, the people that we put in charge of making our voices heard, are sick of hearing what we have to say about their actions within and outside of their offices. Must just be because TikTok has a parent company in China (while the US servers and data are run through US based company, Oracle) and that it's a dangerous threat.

#tiktok #tiktok ban #us government #free palestine #trans rights #women's rights

[thelastharbinger]

Did not have the U.S. government holding hearings on previously classified information and lying making confirmations under oath that they are in possession of alien bodies and ufos in order to distract from the fact that covid-19 is still the leading cause of death in children, the cost of living is astronomical, cop city is well underway despite Atlanta residents overwhelmingly crying out against it, we are experiencing the hottest & deadliest temperatures on record, the state of Florida trying to rewrite history to say that slavery was just a mutually beneficial unpaid internship, trans lives and rights are under attack, anti drag laws, FLINT MICHIGAN STILL DOES NOT HAVE CLEAN DRINKING WATER, anti-discrimination laws being reversed, Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, Roe v. Wade undone, universal free school lunches are on the ballot, ongoing mass shootings, climate change, big pharma killing off people by withholding live saving drugs at ungodly market prices, the erasure of separation of church and state, AI surveillance being implemented to detect fare evasion for increasingly costly public transport services, the rise of fascim, proud boys showing up with military grade weapons at libraries and day care centers, the permitted attempted coup of the capital, labor union strikes happening all over the country, people dying of heat in Texas because evil landlords want to cut off cooling over an unpaid $51 utility bill, train derailments causing toxic waste spills, corruption within the highest court in the land, homelessness rates the highest its ever been, migrants and asylum seekers being kicked out of temporary housing, the cost of food, book bans, Miranda Rights no longer being stated, mayors deciding to no longer publicly disclose how many people are dying pre-trial in detention facilities, federal minimum wage still $7.25, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, oil pipeline constructions on native lands, something like 30-50% of the nation's drinking water contaminated with forever chemicals, the rich remaining untaxed, biden going back on his campaign promises to forgive all student debt, still no free universal healthcare, ICE deportations increasing under biden admin, the u.s. yet maintaining colonies, teens and women getting jail time for miscarriages and abortions, 100 companies globally responsible for 70 or 80-something percent of all CO2 emissions, we are living in a police state, diseases resurfacing after years with no cases due to rising temps, death penalty, public services being defunded to increase military and police spending budgets, and abusers suing victims for defamation cases in court so that they legally cannot talk about it, and setting a dangerous precedent in the process in my 2023 bingo card but here we god damn are.

#2023 is a goddamn JOKE #aliens #us government #us govt #aliens and ufos #2023 bingo #land temp in spain was 140 degrees 2 days ago. owners r gonna have to start buying shoes for their pups out of obligation bc paws on fire. #i hate it here so bad #like can the aliens fix racism?

[stackslip]

three people have been murdered and another three wounded in paris yesterday morning (23rd of december 2022) after a 69-year old white man attack and shot up a kurdish cultural center and then a nearby restaurant and hairdresser’s. he had previously been detained for almost a year for attacking a migrant detention center with a sword in december 2021 and wounding two people with a sword. despite this and a previous track record of violence, french authorities had not marked him as a possible terrorist threat.

after the attack, a grieving and angered crowd of franco-kurdish protestors confronted cops, angered by the police’s slow reaction to the attack, as well as lack of increased security despite previous threats to this center. the minister of the interior has admitted that the attack was likely to be based in racist motives, but claims it isn’t a far-right attack. he also did nothing as cops gassed the grieving protestors.

so far we know the names of two of the victims: kurdish singer mîr perwer, and a student and iranian-kurdish feminist activist, emine kara. may their memories be a blessing.

here are english and french-language sources, i’ll update as more info comes out and when there are fundraisers for the survivors. 

al-jazeera: x, x

le monde: x, x

mediapart: x, x

#france #kurdish #racism #far right #eli talks

[fatehbaz]

Presently, [...] [a] scholar doing [...] expansive work on the relationship between disability and incarceration is Liat Ben-Moshe. Ben-Moshe has produced two books on the subject within the past ten years: Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (2014), and Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (2020).

Disability Incarcerated is an edited collection that surveys the various iterations and sites of historical carcerality vis-à-vis disabled people: asylums, mental hospitals, state institutions, migrant detention centers, prisons, nursing homes, segregated schools and workshops. It is an accessible overview [...]. Decarcerating Disability, in contrast, is singularly authored by Ben-Moshe; it is an interesting attempt at utilizing the experience of disability incarceration and decarceration [...] in order to impart lessons and considerations of relevance to the present-day abolition movement.

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Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability is unique in its explicit positioning within the framework of prison studies and the abolitionist movement; it is, in fact, a polemical intervention into living debates. [...] Ben-Moshe also writes about the importance of centering “fugitive/maroon abolitionist knowledges” in advancing critical analyses of carcerality. [...]

[S]ubjugated knowledges are “blocks of historical knowledges” that have been subsumed by “formal systematization”; that is, “ways of knowing” that have been dismissed, disqualified, or shunned by the hegemonic arbiters of reason. In this schema, power “is not a centralized external force controlled by a limited few,” writes Ben-Moshe, “but is inside us, making us operate in particular ways, often by benevolent means, that is, ‘for our own good,’ such as is the case with diets, psychotherapy, [...] and rehabilitation, to name a few examples.” [...]

Foregoing criticisms notwithstanding, Decarcerating Disability is a useful and welcome text insofar as it actively engages with the process of “letting go of hegemonic knowledge (of crime, of corrections and the dangerous few, for example).” 

On a practical level, Ben-Moshe articulates responses to many of the common questions that abolitionists face, including: what to do about interpersonal or community safety; are non-carceral solutions practicable; why are certain people and behaviors criminalized; and, in the words of Angela Davis, what kind of “social landscape” would non-carcerality necessitate and entail. [...]

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Since reaching a high-point in the late 2000s, the overall rate of [formal prison] incarceration has been [technically] declining [...]. This, however, should be kept in perspective -- the United States still remains the world’s leader in youth criminalization, with nearly 700,000 youth arrested annually (almost 10 percent of whom are arrested in schools) and over 43,000 youth incarcerated on a given day. [...] [T]he lessons of the previous example of decarceration counsel caution and vigilance. Ben-Moshe argues that deinstitutionalization with regard to physical space and locale has largely been a success; but insofar as deinstitutionalization was not accompanied by a widespread rejection of the paradigm and logic of coercive, carceral “solutions” to disability writ large, institutional and carceral regimes of marginalization have cropped up and even expanded within the vacuums left by the previous large state-run facilities: 

Today those who were discharged or never institutionalized are still under the surveillance of the . . . state, but it has furthered its reach -- adhering to strict drug regimens, living in semi-institutions (group homes, halfway houses), and subjected to a variety of outpatient commitment laws and policies.

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All text above by: Keith Rosenthal. “Jailbreak of Disability.” Rampant Magazine. 30 August 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

#abolition #disability #medical

[decolonize-the-left]

Democratic PR:

Democratic policy:

They argue the deadly fire should never have happened and are placing at least some of the blame on the Biden administration and its expansion of the policy, known as Title 42.

Its use forces the migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico, they say.

"Exploiting a human tragedy to illustrate the 'risks' of irregular migration ignores the fact that the Guatemalan victims of this fire had no viable legal pathways and the Venezuelan victims were detained as a result of the Biden Admin's expansion of Title 42," Andrea Flores, a former member of Biden's National Security Council who handled border policy said via Twitter.

The Trump-era policy gives border agents the power to turn away migrants without legal process. It's set to end on May 11 when the administration allows the public health emergency for Covid 19 — that is the basis for Title 42 — expires.

How's the meme go? Men can't trust women cuz of makeup and women can't trust men cuz of assault. Well, BIPOC can't trust a single political party in the US government because of systematic abuses.

#this is why i dont look at the news #its always democrats making themselves look good and its always because they finished hiding a body #biden #systematic racism #systematic oppression #abolish ice #acab #kids in cages are still in cages

[azspot]

What we needed was more welcoming centers. We needed more accountability and oversight to the federal law enforcement at the border. But also we needed for the federal government to stop Texas, stop the governor, of what they are doing in terms of enforcing illegally and unconstitutionally SB4, that is impacting Latinos, people of color, migrants that are looking for asylum and protection. I mean, what you saw in El Paso, the pictures of people running through the barbed wire, it is how desperate the situation is at the border. Because these state soldiers, the barbed wire and this state enforcement, it is illegally impeding migrants and families to ask for asylum, which is their right. It’s an international right. It’s granted in the U.S. Constitution. So, I think that we expected the administration to be more forceful in accomplishing a more humane border and push for immigration reform. We have not seen that. Instead, we have seen more militarization and more resources for detention centers coming from the administration also.

Fernando García

#immigration #texas

[mariacallous]

St. Petersburg police arrested at least 3,000 migrants on December 31 and January 1, reports local outlet Fontanka. Novaya Gazeta Europe writes that the number was “much higher” and that men, women, and children were detained. The men were reportedly taken to police stations, while women and children were taken to a special detention center. Police cordoned off areas where they conducted raids and arrested people both on the streets and in apartments, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe.

On January 1, military enlistment officers came to many of the detainees and offered them the option of enlisting in the Russian army as “volunteers,” reports Novaya Gazeta Europe. Officers threatened to deport the men’s families if they did not comply. Those without Russian citizenship were offered expedited naturalization if they joined the army. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe’s information, at least 1,500 people agreed to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. This number has not been confirmed.

The joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts reported that 31 people were charged with migration law violations. Two of those charged were released, two were fined, and 27 were deported.

In recent months, Russian authorities have been actively offering migrants from Central Asian countries expedited citizenship in return for signing a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. Additionally, police have been arresting migrants with Russian citizenship during raids and taking them to military enlistment offices.

[1americanconservative]

BREAKING: Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST and hoped “to make a bomb” in US Basel Bassel Ebbadi (22) was apprehended by border patrol on March 9th near to El Paso, Texas. During his detention, when asked about his purpose in the US, he responded, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” as reported by a Border Patrol official. In a later sworn interview, Ebbadi revealed that he underwent training with Hezbollah for seven years and subsequently served as an active member safeguarding weapons sites for an additional four years, as per internal ICE documents. Ebbadi stated that his training primarily centered around "jihad" and targeting individuals who were not Muslim.

[pwlanier]

Million Things to Say, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, 2018. Image courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate.

The exuberant and wide-ranging works of Pacita Abad (US, b. Philippines, 1946–2004) are the subject of the first-ever retrospective spanning the artist’s 32-year career. Abad is best known for her trapuntos, a form of quilted painting made by stitching and stuffing her canvases as opposed to stretching them over a wood frame. During her lifetime, the prolific artist made a vast number of artworks that traverse a diversity of subjects, from colorful masks to intricately constructed underwater scenes to abstract compositions. The exhibition includes more than 100 works—most of which have never been on public view in the United States—showcasing her experiments in different mediums, including textiles, works on paper, costumes, and ceramics. Organized by the Walker in collaboration with Abad’s estate, the presentation celebrates the multifaceted work of an artist whose vibrant visual, material, and conceptual concerns are as urgent today as they were three decades ago.

Abad moved to the United States in 1970 to escape political persecution after leading a student demonstration against the authoritarian Marcos regime. Informed by this experience, she was determined to give visibility to political refugees and oppressed peoples through her art: “I have always believed that an artist has a special obligation to remind society of its social responsibility.” Works from her Immigrant Experience series (1983–1995) highlight the rising multiculturalism of the 1990s. These works call attention to the era’s contradictions and omissions, centering the sufferings and triumphs of people on the periphery of power. The multiplicity of stories referenced in the series include such events as the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Haitian refugee crisis, and the detention of Mexican migrant workers at the US border, offering an intimate look at lives often obscured by the reductive, xenophobic headlines of the time.

Though she became a US citizen in 1994, Abad lived for several years in a number of countries around the world, including Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, the Philippines, Singapore, and Sudan. Largely self-taught, she interacted with the various artistic communities she encountered on her travels, incorporating a diversity of cultural traditions and techniques—from Korean ink brush painting to Indonesian batik—into her expansive practice. Abad’s global, peripatetic existence is reflected in the portability of her works and in her use of textiles, a medium often associated with female, non-Western labor and historically marginalized as craft.

Walker Art Center

#textile art

[magz]

According to Homero Figueroa, spokesman for the Presidency of the Dominican Republic, Roberto Álvarez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that the migratory alert issued by the United States last November has resulted in a significant decrease in tourism. At least 35,000 fewer tourists have visited in recent months due to the Dominican Republic migration alert.

[...]

According to the migration alert, Dominican Migration agents have been conducting widespread operations to detain individuals believed to be undocumented migrants, particularly those of Haitian descent.

[...] There are reports that detainees are being held in overcrowded detention centers under dire conditions. Detainees have no way to challenge their detention or access to food and restroom facilities. Detainees are held, in some cases, for days at a time before being released or deported to Haiti. [...]

In November 2022, the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic issued a warning to African-American U.S. citizens about the General Directorate of Migration’s increased operations aimed at detaining undocumented immigrants, particularly individuals of African-American descent. Álvarez reportedly emphasized that the Dominican Republic is an open country and receives the highest percentage of North American tourists, according to Diario Libre, a new publication of the Dominican Republic.

To Dominican Republic: Maybe don't be racist, colorist, n xenophobic if not want be seen as bigoted dystopic country?

Sincerely, a supposed Dominican with Haitian n American descent.

#tldr: dominican republic was antiblack antihaitian en masse n got consequences for it. n they crying about it #link post #o post #racism #xenophobia #colorism #sij #dominican republic

[inkdrawndreamer]

Before I have to see one more goddamn Handmaid's Tale comparison on my dash tonight, here's a reminder that:

•The so-called "father of gynecology" who invented the vaginal speculum experimented on enslaved black women. These women were operated on without anaesthesia.

•People have been getting forcibly sterilized in the US for decades. Black, latina, and indigenous women were targeted in large numbers throughout the 20th century, as were migrants, disabled people, and even children.

•Migrants being held in ICE detention centers have reported forced sterilizations occurring in the camps in recent years. In addition to the forced sterilizations, pregnant women have been denied abortion access as well as medical attention.

•Getting sterilized has often been a requirement for trans people to legally change their gender on documents. Many countries still require this, as do many areas of the US.

This shit is not new and it is not fiction.

This has been affecting people for generations.

The fight doesn't stop when the coast is clear for white women.

Fighting for reproductive rights means fighting for reparation to everybody who had those rights violated. It means fighting eugenics and colonialism too.

#racism #roe v wade #pregnancy #abortion #transphobia #feminism #medical abuse #slavery #ableism #links #history #sterilization