ACTION: ICE Riots Targets Detainees of Color-Repression at PIDC

[Nathalie Contreras]

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From: <mnr...@riseup.net>
Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Subject: ACTION: ICE Riots Targets Detainees of Color-Repression at PIDC
To: Anayanse Garza <anay...@swunion.org>


ACTION ALERT: Call Janet Napolitano (866-587-3023) and Director Micheal
Jay Pitts of Texas Regional Field Office (210-967-7164) to demand an end
to violent ICE attack against detainees!

One day after Acting Director of ICE’s Office Phyllis Coven turns her back
to fasting mother, Zoila Monila, and 200 hunger strikers at Port Isabel
Detention Center, ICE riot targets detainees of color and hunger strikers.

Physical force and intimidation tactics are being used against detainees.
All phone access is terminated and 25 hunger strikers are being processed
to be transferred to Willacy County Detention Center. Top Official Micheal
Watkins tells hunger strikers "we're shipping you to Willacy, straight to
the box." When hunger strikers ask why, Michael Watkins responds "because
you're big and black."

Demand that racism and violence against detainees STOP! CALL NAPOLITANO
866-587-302 and JAY PITTS 210-967-7164 NOW

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Anayanse Garza, 956.207.2571, SWU RGV

Background:

THE REASONS LISTED FOR THE HUNGER STRIKE WERE:
~ Solidarity with the People of Haiti in their time of greatest need ~
Solidarity with Comprehensive Immigration Reform
~ Solidarity with the Fast For Our Families in Miami, Florida and Jean
Montrevil and his family in New York
~ Solidarity with the March against Sherriff Arpaio and against his abuse
of authority and militarization of the US-Mexico border
~ Respect Human Rights
THEY CALL FOR:
1. Suspend the detention and deportation of immigrants with U.S. citizen
children, spouses, and immigrant students until there is resolution on the
passage of comprehensive immigration reform;
2. Work permits for immigrants with U.S. citizen children and spouses
whose detention and deportation have been suspended until there is
resolution in Congress on the passage of immigration reform;
3. Creation of an honest, transparent process by which the best interests
of communities, families, and children are weighed before detaining and
deporting any individual
4. The right to Due Process
5. End the abuse of Human Rights in detention (lack of medical access,
indefinite detention, inadequate food, physical and verbal abuse)
6. End the unjust deportation
7. End raids on immigrant communities

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Nathalie