Tag: Deportations

Minnesotans Defend Somali Community, Immigrant Workers

Residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul — the Twin Cities — are organizing to defend their Somali neighbors and other immigrants targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), challenging the rhetoric of U.S. president Donald Trump and members of his administration. A highlight of the organizing efforts was a December 3 rally held in subfreezing temperatures outside Signature Aviation, the private aircraft terminal at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. ICE agents frequently arrest immigrants leaving Immigration Court at the nearby Whipple Building and bring them directly to the terminal for deportation.

Miami Rally: ‘Stop Deportations, Save the Haitians!’

NORTH MIAMI, Florida, September 29, 2021—About fifty people gathered today outside City Hall here to protest the outrageous mistreatment of Haitians by the U.S. government at the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. Protesters demanded equal treatment for Haitian asylum seekers, and the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts of the nearly 15,000 refugees who were removed from the border by federal authorities and many of them deported.