The administration has finally shifted its stance on these deportations. This change is a direct result of the collective pressure we maintained throughout this process. Please remain attentive as we ensure these new policies are fully implemented and respected.
June 21, 2014
Members of the University of Puget Sound in Support of Action Against Deportations
Final supporters
A Public Letter to President Barack Obama,
In the face of congressional inaction on immigration reform, you can and must take immediate executive action to turn back the deportation dragnet. No other country in the world deports more than the 1,000 people the United States currently deports daily. At present rates, your administration is on track to deport more people in seven years than all combined national deportations prior to 1997. By April 5th, 2014, your administration will have deported 2 million immigrants, 98% of whom are Latinos. Many deportees have lived in the U.S. for decades, are married to US citizens and have children that know no other country but the US; the great majority have no criminal record. These deportations cause tremendous pain among the various Puget Sound Latino communities, especially among the many children of deportees who are left parentless or forced into the foster-care system. All suffer from deeply rooted emotional and psychological wounds.
Detention rates have also skyrocketed under your administration, with a daily average of 5,532 detainees in 1994 to the current, congressionally mandated minimum quota of 34,000. The three largest private prison corporations–the Geo Group, Inc., Management and Training Corporations, and the Corrections Corporation of America–are reaping annual profits of more than $5 billion a year and spending more than $20 million lobbying legislators to guarantee the inflow of new inmates to their cells.
The Northwest Detention Center in our hometown of Tacoma is the third largest immigrant detention prison in the country and is managed by the Geo Group, Inc. On any given day, the Northwest Detention Center holds as many as 1575 women and men who must await their deportation without the right to legal representation. These immigrants are detained for a period of two to six months, and often times up to many years, costing taxpayers $108 per person, per day.
On March 7 of this year more than 700 detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center began a hunger strike. Apart from demanding a halt to the unjust deportations separating and terrorizing families, destroying homes, and bringing about financial and emotional insecurity among working-class Latino communities, they protest the inhumane conditions inside the prison and the exploitation of their labor (they receive $1 a day for their labor). Jesus Gaspar Navarro remains in isolation after 20 days on hunger strike, and on Monday, March 24th, 70 people rejoined the hunger strike after seeing little change in their conditions.
On Saturday April 5, 2014, Tacoma and Seattle communities will meet at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma to join other local and national voices, organizations, and families of deportees nationwide to say: “2Million2Many! Not One More Deportation!”
As faculty, students and staff of the Puget Sound community, we too stand against the massive detentions and deportations carried on by your administration; we stand against the rupturing and terrorizing of families; we stand against the violation of human rights of the detainees at the Northwest Detention Center, and we call on you and your administration to take concrete action today to halt the detention, incarceration, and deportation of immigrants.
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
April 3, 2014
13 Comments
For Jaime, Keiko, and all innocents, deportation is a misuse of our precious resources and is harming our friends and communities.
Deportations are an abomination. This is worse than what the English did with their prisoners when they shipped them to Australia.
cut back on the deportation, it's a huge putoff to anyone who even wants to visit the usa which can cause bad economic results because they don't come because the system is so bad
Deportation is just not the answer. It fails to pacify GOP hardliners. It does not promote a safer border. It breaks families. It causes countless unnecessary deaths. Stop this policy now, please.
I stand with the 1500+ immigrants in the Northwest Detention Center and the 2 million immigrants deported since president obama's inauguration. Deportation is UNETHICAL, VIOLENT, and FUCKS WITH COMMUNITIES at the very core. STOP deportation now and stop the unnatural destruction of families and communities.
End deportation now!!
Keep families together!
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The administration has finally shifted its stance on these deportations. This change is a direct result of the collective pressure we maintained throughout this process. Please remain attentive as we ensure these new policies are fully implemented and respected.
June 21, 2014
Members of the University of Puget Sound in Support of Action Against Deportations
Final supporters
A Public Letter to President Barack Obama,
In the face of congressional inaction on immigration reform, you can and must take immediate executive action to turn back the deportation dragnet. No other country in the world deports more than the 1,000 people the United States currently deports daily. At present rates, your administration is on track to deport more people in seven years than all combined national deportations prior to 1997. By April 5th, 2014, your administration will have deported 2 million immigrants, 98% of whom are Latinos. Many deportees have lived in the U.S. for decades, are married to US citizens and have children that know no other country but the US; the great majority have no criminal record. These deportations cause tremendous pain among the various Puget Sound Latino communities, especially among the many children of deportees who are left parentless or forced into the foster-care system. All suffer from deeply rooted emotional and psychological wounds.
Detention rates have also skyrocketed under your administration, with a daily average of 5,532 detainees in 1994 to the current, congressionally mandated minimum quota of 34,000. The three largest private prison corporations–the Geo Group, Inc., Management and Training Corporations, and the Corrections Corporation of America–are reaping annual profits of more than $5 billion a year and spending more than $20 million lobbying legislators to guarantee the inflow of new inmates to their cells.
The Northwest Detention Center in our hometown of Tacoma is the third largest immigrant detention prison in the country and is managed by the Geo Group, Inc. On any given day, the Northwest Detention Center holds as many as 1575 women and men who must await their deportation without the right to legal representation. These immigrants are detained for a period of two to six months, and often times up to many years, costing taxpayers $108 per person, per day.
On March 7 of this year more than 700 detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center began a hunger strike. Apart from demanding a halt to the unjust deportations separating and terrorizing families, destroying homes, and bringing about financial and emotional insecurity among working-class Latino communities, they protest the inhumane conditions inside the prison and the exploitation of their labor (they receive $1 a day for their labor). Jesus Gaspar Navarro remains in isolation after 20 days on hunger strike, and on Monday, March 24th, 70 people rejoined the hunger strike after seeing little change in their conditions.
On Saturday April 5, 2014, Tacoma and Seattle communities will meet at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma to join other local and national voices, organizations, and families of deportees nationwide to say: “2Million2Many! Not One More Deportation!”
As faculty, students and staff of the Puget Sound community, we too stand against the massive detentions and deportations carried on by your administration; we stand against the rupturing and terrorizing of families; we stand against the violation of human rights of the detainees at the Northwest Detention Center, and we call on you and your administration to take concrete action today to halt the detention, incarceration, and deportation of immigrants.
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
April 3, 2014
13 Comments
Human Rights are for all humans and the US is a signatary and a member of the United Nations. Stop treating immigrants as non-humans. Behind each of them there is a story of suffering and needs, repression and in many cases, the situation in their own homelands is the direct result of past policies of intervention, control and support of dictators sustained for too long by the United States.
For Jaime, Keiko, and all innocents, deportation is a misuse of our precious resources and is harming our friends and communities.
Deportations are an abomination. This is worse than what the English did with their prisoners when they shipped them to Australia.
cut back on the deportation, it's a huge putoff to anyone who even wants to visit the usa which can cause bad economic results because they don't come because the system is so bad
Deportation is just not the answer. It fails to pacify GOP hardliners. It does not promote a safer border. It breaks families. It causes countless unnecessary deaths. Stop this policy now, please.
I stand with the 1500+ immigrants in the Northwest Detention Center and the 2 million immigrants deported since president obama's inauguration. Deportation is UNETHICAL, VIOLENT, and FUCKS WITH COMMUNITIES at the very core. STOP deportation now and stop the unnatural destruction of families and communities.
End deportation now!!
Keep families together!
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Human Rights are for all humans and the US is a signatary and a member of the United Nations. Stop treating immigrants as non-humans. Behind each of them there is a story of suffering and needs, repression and in many cases, the situation in their own homelands is the direct result of past policies of intervention, control and support of dictators sustained for too long by the United States.