New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees is a coalition of civic and religious organizations (individual participation is also welcome) whose goals include bringing attention to the plight of immigrant detainees in our state's jails; working to improve the conditions in those institutions; and advocating for the reduction and elimination of the use of detention for immigrants.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
J. Amos Caley on the DREAMS NOT DETENTION Bus Tour & Vigils To End Immig...
#Video of J Amos Caley of the Reformed Church of Highland Park #HighlandPark speaking at the #ElizabethDetentionCenter in Elizabeth, New Jersey #Elizabeth #NewJersey #NJ as part of the DREAMS Not Detention Bus Tour & Vigils Campaign To End #ImmigrantDetention (10-8-12) on #visitation & being a #visitor at Delaney Hall & the Elizabeth Detention Center - Department of Homeland Security; the pre-dawn #raids of #Indonesians in the mid-aughts & the breakup of #families, the ruining of #marriages, & the devastation wrought in individuals' lives from their subsequent #immigrationdetention & #deportation; the audacity & intransigence of the #ICE officials who hold the lives of #immigrantdetainees in their hands as well as the #abuseofpower which #mandatorydetention & #privateprisons
have encouraged to thrive; the callous lack of response from elected
officials & especially the Barack Obama administration (which has
continually broken records for detention & deportation), the broken
promises, the lies & deception, and the irrationality of expanding
detention when #AlternativesToDetention or #ATDs will cost the taxpayer a fraction of the investment in #prisons & #jails which the #government has made (at the same time as they pretend to be trying to balance the #budget) - all summed up brilliantly by this young man who has dedicated so much time & energy to the fight for #immigrantrights & the #dueprocess #rights of the #Constitution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc1dGKmM_EY
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