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NYC immigration rights organizer Ravi Ragbir is facing deportation on Saturday. He is just one of several activists around the country who have been detained or deported after publicly fighting to change the system.

Musician Felix Walworth brought attention to a long-standing clause that suggests festival-sanctioned international artists who play unauthorized shows risk possible referral to immigration authorities. 

“No one, no one, should go to through the pain of packing [their mother’s] suitcase,” said Guadalupe García de Rayos’s 14-year-old daughter.

“Our children should be in school and not in detention centers. We are here to demand that Hillary act on her campaign promises.”

Under order from new mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia will once again halt most collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

Activist Mary Small: “To entrust the care and well-being of traumatized asylum-seeking women and children to a subsidiary of GEO Group, a private prison company with an extensive rap sheet of human rights abuses, is unconscionable.”

For the last 48 hours, more than 200 men have been on a hunger strike inside an Arizona immigration detention center in response to abuse and a “mysterious” death.

“We want our FREEDOM,” they’ve written in a letter obtained by Colorlines

S-Comm has long been blasted as reaching too far. Will PEP-Comm be better?