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🥺⛓️“The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back...
05/22/2026

🥺⛓️“The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé remembered, back at home in France. ‘Children crying, and even babies.’”

“Los lamentos en el centro de detención de inmigrantes de Luisiana comenzaban por la noche —recordaba Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, ya de regreso en su hogar en Francia—. ‘Niños llorando, e incluso bebés.’”

US authorities arrested French citizen Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé after she missed an immigration appointment

➡️ “Los migrantes y refugiados no son peones en el tablero de ajedrez de la humanidad. Son niños, mujeres y hombres que ...
05/15/2026

➡️ “Los migrantes y refugiados no son peones en el tablero de ajedrez de la humanidad. Son niños, mujeres y hombres que dejan — o se ven obligados a dejar — sus hogares por diversas razones, que comparten un deseo legítimo de conocer y de tener, pero, sobre todo, de ser más.”
— Papa Francisco

⛓️🔒“In the Trump era, the privilege of American citizenship hasn’t been enough to protect people from getting caught in ...
05/09/2026

⛓️🔒“In the Trump era, the privilege of American citizenship hasn’t been enough to protect people from getting caught in the crosshairs of immigration enforcement. Although the frequency of Garcia Venegas’ wrongful detentions sets him apart, he’s far from an outlier.”

“En la era Trump, el privilegio de la ciudadanía estadounidense no ha bastado para proteger a las personas de quedar atrapadas en la mira de las autoridades de inmigración. Si bien la frecuencia de las detenciones injustificadas de García Venegas lo distingue, dista mucho de ser un caso excepcional.”

“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.

🥺“Diana Acosta Verde received the order from the detention officer less than 24 hours after she gave birth. ‘Leave the b...
05/01/2026

🥺“Diana Acosta Verde received the order from the detention officer less than 24 hours after she gave birth. ‘Leave the baby in the crib,’ Ms. Acosta recalled the officer saying as she held her newborn son. ‘You need to go.’”

“Diana Acosta Verde recibió la orden del oficial de detención menos de 24 horas después de haber dado a luz. ‘Deje al bebé en la cuna,’ recordó la Sra. Acosta que dijo el oficial mientras sostenía a su hijo recién nacido. ‘Tiene que irse.’”

Diana Acosta Verde, who came into the United States illegally when she was six months pregnant, had to leave her baby at a hospital while she returned to a detention center.

🙌🏻‼️ This is amazing! “Months after being fired, the former immigration judge followed one final case back to the Guatem...
04/25/2026

🙌🏻‼️ This is amazing! “Months after being fired, the former immigration judge followed one final case back to the Guatemalan mountains – carrying flowers, questions and the weight of one of his last rulings.”

¡Esto es maravilloso! “Meses después de haber sido despedido, el exjuez de inmigración siguió un último caso hasta las montañas de Guatemala, llevando consigo flores, preguntas y el peso de uno de sus últimas decisiones.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/18/federal-immigration-court-judge-trump-guatemalan/89609671007/

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This U.S. immigration court judge began an adventure south of the border after Trump fired him.

🇺🇸“Immigrants and the children of immigrants are a crucial source of personnel for the U.S. military. Given events in th...
04/17/2026

🇺🇸“Immigrants and the children of immigrants are a crucial source of personnel for the U.S. military. Given events in the Middle East, this is an odd time to go out of the way to alienate them, but that is what the White House, congressional Republicans and Republican governors and legislators in numerous states seem intent on doing.”

“Los inmigrantes y los hijos de inmigrantes constituyen una fuente crucial de personal para las fuerzas armadas de los Estados Unidos. Dados los acontecimientos en Oriente Medio, este resulta un momento extraño para esforzarse deliberadamente por alienarlos; sin embargo, eso es precisamente lo que la Casa Blanca, los republicanos del Congreso y los gobernadores y legisladores republicanos de numerosos estados parecen empeñados en hacer.”

Immigrants and the children of immigrants are a crucial source of personnel for the U.S. military. Given events in the Middle East, it’s an odd time to go out of the way to alienate them, but that’…

“Quiero para ti lo que quieras para los inmigrantes.” 💯‼️
04/10/2026

“Quiero para ti lo que quieras para los inmigrantes.” 💯‼️

Happy Easter! ¡Feliz Pascua de Resurrección!☀️“Jesucristo no fue neutral. Se puso del lado de los pobres, de los enfermo...
04/06/2026

Happy Easter! ¡Feliz Pascua de Resurrección!☀️“Jesucristo no fue neutral. Se puso del lado de los pobres, de los enfermos y de los inmigrantes. Que seamos como Jesucristo.”

💔"12 days after his youngest daughter was born prematurely, Juan Chavez Velasco was on his way to deliver milk to her ho...
03/24/2026

💔"12 days after his youngest daughter was born prematurely, Juan Chavez Velasco was on his way to deliver milk to her hospital room — still in his own neighborhood in Weslaco, Texas — when immigration agents pulled in front of his car. His wife, Stephanie Villarreal, 32, was on the phone with him and heard the agents yell at him to get out of the vehicle. 'I immediately became really panicked,' she said in an interview with MS NOW. He told them he had children. He told them he had a wife. He told them he had DACA. He remembers their response. 'They said, ‘That doesn’t matter,’' Chavez Velasco recalled."

🥺"Doce días después de que su hija menor naciera prematuramente, Juan Chávez Velasco se dirigía a llevarle leche a su habitación en el hospital —hallándose aún en su propio vecindario en Weslaco, Texas— cuando unos agentes de inmigración se interpusieron frente a su automóvil. Su esposa, Stephanie Villarreal, de 32 años, hablaba con él por teléfono y escuchó a los agentes gritarle que saliera del vehículo. «De inmediato me invadió el pánico», relató en una entrevista con MS NOW. Él les dijo que tenía hijos. Les dijo que tenía esposa. Les dijo que tenía DACA. Él recuerda la respuesta de ellos. «Dijeron: "Eso no importa"», rememoró Chávez Velasco."

Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.

💔I worked with a group of law student volunteers for a week at this detention center in Dilley, TX, in 2017 as an adjunc...
03/17/2026

💔I worked with a group of law student volunteers for a week at this detention center in Dilley, TX, in 2017 as an adjunct professor. I thought it couldn't get worse than it was then, but nine years later, the 911 calls say it all. It's evil to detain children. Period.

⛓🔒En 2017, trabajé como profesor adjunto con un grupo de estudiantes de derecho voluntarios durante una semana en este centro de detención en Dilley, Texas. Pensé que la situación no podía empeorar, pero nueve años después, las llamadas al 911 lo dicen todo. Detener a niños es una atrocidad. Punto.

EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

🚸“The Trump administration contacted me — a pediatrician who had directed a children’s intensive care unit — and asked m...
03/10/2026

🚸“The Trump administration contacted me — a pediatrician who had directed a children’s intensive care unit — and asked me to develop a medical screening protocol that would help Border Patrol agents identify seriously ill children. I developed a protocol, but it was never adopted. But I was granted access to facilities where unaccompanied children were detained in what were appropriately described as ‘cages.’ Children, including toddlers, were crowded into chain-link enclosures with mattresses on the concrete floor, thin blankets, no toys, no privacy. Many were crying. Some just stared, hands outstretched to anyone who walked past. It was truly heartbreaking.”

🚸“La administración Trump me contactó —a mí, pediatra que dirigía una unidad de cuidados intensivos pediátricos— y me pidió que desarrollara un protocolo de evaluación médica que ayudara a los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza a identificar a niños gravemente enfermos. Desarrollé un protocolo, pero nunca se adoptó. Sin embargo, me permitieron acceder a instalaciones donde los niños no acompañados eran detenidos en lo que se describió apropiadamente como 'jaulas'. Los niños, incluidos los pequeños, estaban hacinados en recintos de malla metálica con colchones sobre el suelo de cemento, mantas finas, sin juguetes ni privacidad. Muchos lloraban. Algunos simplemente miraban fijamente, extendiendo las manos a cualquiera que pasara. Fue realmente desgarrador.”

The harm is not just physical.

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