Mural at At San Francisco’s Balmy Alley. Image: Oren Rozen via Wikimedia Commons
Local, state, and federal officials in San Antonio spoke out last night against the punitive federal practice of separating asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border. They were joined in front of a crowd of hundreds by the director of RAICES (Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services), which operates a variety of refugee-assistance programs (See flyers below). Juan Mancias, tribal chair, of the Carrizo-Comecrudo Nation brought an indigenous perspective to the current crisis by alluding to the long practice of migration through the region by native peoples.
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
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Numerous lawsuits and judge’s orders have dogged ICE detention centers in recent months, with one federal judge comparing a facility outside Chicago to a “concentration camp.”
The struggle against ICE has picked up in Texas since the killings of legal observers in Minneapolis and transporting of 5-year-old Liam Ramos to CoreCivic’s Dilley family detention center.
