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Fixing the harmful immigration and criminal justice systems that have locked too many out of the American dream for too long.
NEW @FWDus RESEARCH REPORT: Announced immigration policies will negatively impact millions of Americans by separating families and raising the costs of goods and services by $2,150 more each year, according to new @FWDus estimates. 🧵
Alejandro Barranco, a Marine veteran with two brothers on active duty, testified before a Senate committee today about his father’s arrest by masked immigration agents while at work. The American people have repeatedly rejected this cruelty. Watch & share Alejandro’s story:
Important new tool from the team here at @FWDus launching today…which the top line tragic news that by September, nearly 1 million people will have seen their immigration revoked —>
NEW: Today, we are launching a tracker that highlights how efforts to strip legal status — including #TPS and immigration parole — will shrink the U.S. workforce, impacting everyone. 🧵
Great news from NY! Beginning on Aug 1, NY is making prison calls free. This will help ensure families can stay in touch and ease some of the exorbitant costs families spend to support incarcerated loved ones, that we highlighted in our recent report. Grateful for the work of…
BREAKING HUGE WIN! 🚨 New York just announced that phone calls will soon be FREE in New York prisons, bringing around $13 million in relief annually to incarcerated people and their families. The new policy is expected to go into effect on August 1st. Spread the news!
“At the end of the day, the answer we need is a pathway to citizenship and legal status for people.” — @TheToddSchulte via @BulwarkOnline on the #immigration enforcement actions playing out across the country
Andry Hernández Romero, an asylum seeker detained by #immigration authorities in the U.S., has been sent to Venezuela, after spending 125 days in the CECOT prison in El Salvador. via @timodc + @BulwarkOnline
ICYMI: @TheToddSchulte joined @BulwarkOnline’s @Timodc and @samstein to discuss Andry and over 250 Venezuelan men who were sent to Venezuela after being denied due process and disappeared to El Salvador. “We should be clear that the U.S. was paying El Salvador to incarcerate…
ICYMI: @FWDus recent study breaks down how the billion-dollar prison industry drains taxpayer money and extracts resources from marginalized families, funds that could be invested in real structural change. fwd.us/news/new-repor…
Live discussing the Venezuelans we kidnapped arriving in Venezuela with @TheToddSchulte @samstein youtube.com/watch?v=FrKhTW…
Lindsay is live now: youtube.com/watch?v=FrKhTW… "I am relieved, but so outraged" @L_Toczylowski
We were able to identify Andry exiting the plane in Venezuela. After 125 days in a torture prison in El Salvador, he has been released & sent back to the country he initially fled. We will keep fighting for justice for Andry. @ImmDef statement: immdef.org/blog/andryrele…
The Administration disappeared 200+ people to El Salvador with no due process. Their new approach to third-country removals now signals this could happen again, and it may impact immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. @Arosaflores joined @cnni to explain: