ICE is in Los Angeles conducting raids and arresting families and children on their way to their court dates and raiding workplaces. Trump has called the National Guard in to stop protestors and is spreading a false narrative about violence, raiding, etc. to distract from the fact that ICE is abducting children in a SANCTUARY CITY.
Do not look away, do not be silent. If you or a loved one is detained by ICE, stay silent except to ask for your lawyer. Keep your documents on you. Call legal aid foundations who are standing by.
If you are NOT in LA and want to help, you can contact rapid response networks and ask how to help or donate. Donate to ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), or the Immigrant Defense Project.
Here are some slides with good tips to share and a list of SoCal rapid response networks:
DO NOT LOOK AWAY!
And as a not so gentle reminder, if you voted for Trump or his ilk you can unkindly get the fuck off my page. You're not welcome here.
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U.S. citizen seeks $1M after arrest for filming Home Depot ICE immigration raid
U.S. citizen seeks $1M after arrest for filming Home Depot ICE immigration raid https://share.google/1tI7oFWwVhucgYR6p
According to the legal group MALDEF, Ph.D. student Job Garcia was tackled and thrown to the ground by agents, arrested and held for more tha
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is demanding the federal government pay $1 million in damages to a U.S. citizen who was arrested and detained while he was recording an immigration raid at a Home Depot in Los Angeles last month.
MALDEF put the government on notice of a coming civil lawsuit for what it says were assault, battery, false arrest and false imprisonment against Job Garcia, 37.
Garcia, a Ph.D. student and photographer, was tackled and thrown to the ground by agents in the Home Depot parking lot in Hollywood, arrested and held for more than 24 hours, MALDEF said.
It said Wednesday that it submitted the claim against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Border Patrol and other Department of Homeland Security agencies involved in Garcia's arrest.
MALDEF also said that Garcia's arrest and detention were racially motivated and that the government agents may have violated his constitutional protections for free speech, his right to remain silent, his freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and his right to due process.
MALDEF said the claim is a required administrative step before it files a lawsuit against the Border Patrol, ICE and the other DHS agencies.
"The Border Patrol and ICE agents unlawfully restrained and detained Mr. Garcia for more than 24 hours without any valid grounds for interfering with his liberty and freedom of movement and they did so based on legally prohibited grounds," MALDEF said in its claim letter, dated Tuesday. MALDEF said he was released without arraignment or notification of a future court date.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in an emailed statement that Garcia assaulted and verbally harassed a federal agent and that he was subdued and arrested for the alleged assault. She repeated Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's warning that anyone who lays a hand on a law enforcement officer will be fully prosecuted.
Ernest Herrera, MALDEF's Western regional counsel, said the claim sends a message to the federal government about punishing people for exercising their First Amendment rights "and for hurting bystanders and protesters, whether they be U.S. citizens or not during these raids that are happening in public places."
Garcia regularly traveled to Los Angeles-area Home Depots for his job as a delivery driver for an online business. He and others saw agents making the arrests and started recording them on his smartphone, MALDEF said.
While Texas does not have an income tax, it does have a property tax, which has long been used to fund local school districts. Over the years this has led to a major disparity between poor and wealthy districts, as districts with higher property values are able to build better schools, attract better teachers, and buy better supplies.
In 1984, one group of parents from Edgewood ISD in San Antonio had had enough. On May 23rd, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed suit against the Commissioner of Education, William Kirby, charging that the current funding system for Texas schools discriminated against students in poor districts - for example, Edgewood ISD had $38,854 property valuation per student while Alamo Heights ISD, also in San Antonio, had $570,109 per student - and violated the state constitutions, which obligated the state "to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools."
Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby would take five years to wind its way through the courts and would eventually include 75 school districts and numerous parents. In 1989, the Texas Supreme Court unanimously sided with Edgewood ISD and the other plaintiffs and ordered the Texas legislature to create a plan to address the inequity. The first two attempts were rejected, but the third plan is still currently in place. Created in 1993 and upheld in 1995, the plan allows for several options by wealthy districts to redistribute funding to poorer districts, including moving taxable property to the tax rolls of poorer districts, consolidating school districts, and moving students from poorer to wealthier districts.
The system is often referred to as the Robin Hood Plan and is still very contentious in Texas. Many from wealthier districts argue that the plan goes too far while those from poorer districts argue it doesn't go far enough. Part of the 1995 ruling declares that the state must still work to equalize education throughout the state.
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Action of the day:Â MALDEF, which originally stood for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, is one of the country's leading civil rights organizations working for the broader Latinx community. Â Many of the people being targeted by Trump's immigration policies are originally from Latin America, so now is a great time to support organizations like MALDEF with a donation.
Our Poems for Peace zines are still available! $10, 100% of the proceeds split between Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (#MALDEF) and Center for Reproductive Rights (@reprorights). Stop by @pictureroomnyc on Mulberry Street between Prince and Spring, or DM us to have one shipped (will be $10+shipping).
Thank you SO much to all who came out last night. Here are some of the beautiful contributors to Poems for Peace. Info about where to buy online coming soon! 100% proceeds go to #MALDEF and @reprorights