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This week, Dream Activist members set out to show that Obama’s administration was still detaining and removing undocumented youth. t4nu32ufxzlelif2a6jlg9ts63920uywThey created their own strategy by intentionally getting undocumented youth into a detention center to document abuse from the inside of the detention facility. Ideally, the members should would not be detained, if the Immigration and Customs enforcement office was following the discretionary guidelines provided by the administration. Well, that’s not what happened. Here’s their story along with their video. Let’s get them home.5uxo1u84em1agx7fj6p5nbcoi5ry0ven
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Meet Isaac Barrera and Jonathan Perez, youth from California. You actually know both of them, they were participants in a San Bernardino civil disobedience action. This past Thursday both of them walked into a Mobile, Alabama Border Patrol office protesting against HB56. Both were detained and, within hours, transferred to the Basile immigration detention center in Southern Louisiana. wjbevq9rfmvl36vsp829ki41yys9wbx6
Isaac and Jonathan are now doing what they do best, organizing from within the detention center where they are gathering stories of others detained, those not connected to a larger network.xgapy02hfrim905ul3tzbmj6kza5hyoc
Take action and support the work of Isaac and Jonathan from within the detention center. Think we can have them home by Thanksgiving?
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Immigration thinks it can go after us, well we have news for them, we can go after them too. We can enter their detention centers on our own terms and, with your support, we can come out. Let’s bring Jonathan and Isaac home for Thanksgiving!ht5bee532u71e5suh79dcsl6bcx0sv1t
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This week, Dream Activist members set out to show that Obama’s administration was still detaining and removing undocumented youth. They created their own strategy by intentionally getting undocumented youth into a detention center to document abuse from the inside of the detention facility. Ideally, the members should would not be detained, if the Immigration and Customs enforcement office was following the discretionary guidelines provided by the administration. Well, that’s not what happened. Here’s their story along with their video. Let’s get them home.
Meet Isaac Barrera and Jonathan Perez, youth from California. You actually know both of them, they were participants in a San Bernardino civil disobedience action. This past Thursday both of them walked into a Mobile, Alabama Border Patrol office protesting against HB56. Both were detained and, within hours, transferred to the Basile immigration detention center in Southern Louisiana.
Isaac and Jonathan are now doing what they do best, organizing from within the detention center where they are gathering stories of others detained, those not connected to a larger network.
Immigration thinks it can go after us, well we have news for them, we can go after them too. We can enter their detention centers on our own terms and, with your support, we can come out. Let’s bring Jonathan and Isaac home for Thanksgiving!