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www.facebook.com/share/p/1Emy31Km4H/?mibextid=wwXIfrBethlehem, Georgia. November 4th. Two 19-year-old brothers in a car, heading to college.Their mother was on the phone with one of them when the traffic stop began."He told him, 'Get out of the car and turn around.' My son started saying, 'Oh my God, oh my God.'"Then the call went silent.Carlos and Luis Orta had been pulled over in Lincoln, Alabama for rolling through a stop sign. They were traveling from their family home in Gwinnett County to Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, where both play soccer on scholarship.By the next day, they were registered in ICE's system.Nine days later, they are still there.The twins are being held at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana, more than 500 miles from home, in separate units, waiting for separate immigration hearings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.Their family came to the United States legally from Venezuela in 2022 and applied for political asylum. The parents showed reporters valid driver's licenses for both sons, issued by the state, with expiration dates in 2029 and 2030.The Department of Homeland Security told the Associated Press the brothers had overstayed their temporary permission to remain in the country. The family disputes that account. Their asylum applications remain pending.Both brothers had spent years working toward this moment.Archer High School. Gwinnett County. Soccer scholarships. A national championship tournament this weekend.They will not be on the field.Their father relayed a message from his sons to their coach and teammates."Play with your hearts. Leave everything on the field. Because we're giving everything we have here."Their mother has not slept."To me, my children were taken away from me. We're broken."A community fundraiser, Run for Luis and Carlos, is scheduled for Sunday at Alexander Park in Lawrenceville. Immigration hearings begin Monday.Their parents say they are not stopping until both sons come home.Link in comments to read the full story.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1LVenLWpmP/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 ICE THREW a Louisville mom into an Indiana jail's "drunk tank" for doing exactly what she was told: showing up to her own green card interview.Armelle Bondonga says she was told she would be approved. Then, on Aug. 12, two men walked in, had her scan her fingerprints and told her she was going back to Congo. "Well, home is here," she answered.Home has been Louisville since she was 8, when her family came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on a tourist visa. In high school she helped found a youth group called The Future Ancestors. She graduated college, went back to her old high school as a substitute teacher, married Terrance Bradshaw, a U.S. citizen, and had a baby boy. Terrance had come with her to the interview.ICE agents took her to the Clark County jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She spent her first 48 hours in the "drunk tank," where an inmate taunted her about being deported. She rationed toilet paper and paid for every phone call. Later she was moved into general population, though she was never charged with a crime. Immigration violations are civil."I sat in jail over paperwork," she said.DHS claimed she was in the country unlawfully because she overstayed the visa she arrived on as a child. Her lawyers said the years before she turned 18 don't count, and her challenges to a deportation order were still pending. On Oct. 6, federal Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ordered her freed immediately. The government had no removal date, no travel documents and had never even asked Congo to take her. Pratt wrote that it offered "no evidence or even argument" that she would be deported anytime soon.When a guard finally called "Bondonga, Bag and Baggage," she ran. She grabbed her Bible and her three journals and left everything else, as Bonnie Jean Feldkamp first reported in Kentucky Lantern.Inside, she had befriended Aminata Seck, a Kentucky State University basketball player ICE detained at the airport while she traveled with her team. Seck was injured and needed surgery, and Bondonga pushed her own legal team to help her. Seck was granted a $2,500 bond the same day Bondonga walked out.Since then, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has approved her marriage petition. She still doesn't have a green card. At night, a touch from her husband or son jolts her awake. She barely goes out."What's not to say I walk across the street and they try to do it again," she said.She came home asking "how many other people could we help?"If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
www.facebook.com/share/1GHBZHkhau/?mibextid=wwXIfrMiguel Parra Hernandez is trapped in a rehab facility after an ICE agent drove into him with a car then lied about it.He’s guarded day and night by ICE and private prison guards from GEO Group. He’s being denied proper care and basic hygiene like baths. He has become depressed and talked about taking his own life. He had no criminal record and no deportation order. Miguel should be released immediately and be able to recover at home with his family. First assaulted, then neglected—this treatment amounts to torture.
www.facebook.com/share/1C1Azk97ta/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 ICE took a California nursing professor from her home, and then she disappeared from ICE's own detainee locator. Her family searched for THREE DAYS before she called them from Louisiana.Dr. Ann Lawani, 39, was arrested by ICE agents at her home in Lodi on September 16. State Sen. Jerry McNerney says they shackled her at the ankles, waist and hands. She got one call to her family from a holding facility in Stockton.After that, nothing. Her attorney, Natalia Vieira Santana, says ICE moved her to Bakersfield, then El Paso, then Louisiana, and somewhere along the way she stopped showing up in the online locator families use to find detainees. Three days later she finally reached her family from a detention center in Louisiana.ICE officials have said the agency stopped disclosing where many detainees are held on September 15. Lawani was taken the next day. The new policy pulls people with old deportation orders out of the public database. In late October, immigration lawyers sued, saying it keeps attorneys and families from reaching the people inside.In 2013 an immigration judge turned down her asylum claim but ruled she could not be sent back to Nigeria because she "more likely than not" faced persecution there. She has renewed her work permit ever since. The current one is valid until 2029.DHS says she was detained because of that 2013 removal order and will stay in custody until she's deported. Her attorney says that leaves out the part where the same judge, on the same day, granted her protection. Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has tried to deport her to an undisclosed third country without giving her lawyer the documents.Lawani oversees 230 nursing students at the University of San Francisco and works as a nurse at John Muir Health. She stayed on the front lines through COVID. She also cares for her 83-year-old father, who is now in the hospital. ICE took her three weeks into the semester. "It feels like a bomb was dropped into our school," said her dean, Eileen Fry-Bowers.Her brother, Samuel Lawani, called what was done to his sister "simply evil and consequential." Her lawyers are waiting for a federal judge to rule on a petition for her release. She has now been held in Louisiana for eight weeks.If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
