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Welcome to the IIC Webinar on May 5, 2014What Can the Administration Do for Immigrants?Call and Webinar will begin at 4:00 p.m. ESTFor audio, please dial 805-399-1000 and enter access code 104402* The audio and visual portions are NOT linked. You must dial this number to hear the audio portion of the webinar.Slide2

4:00 Welcome &

overview: Jen Smyers, CWS 4:05 Facts on Deportation Numbers and Policies that Have Driven the Deportation Surge: Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU 4:15 Detention reform: Rosalynd Erney, Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service 4:20 Dangerous Deportation Practices at the Border: Mary Small, JRS4:30 Addressing Deportations with Case by Case Advocacy: Erika

Andiola

4:35 Administrative Relief from Deportations: Jose Patino4:40 Utilizing Film in Mobilizing Communities: Sahar Driver, Active Voice4:50 Q &A

AGENDASlide3

What’s Happening in the House?

“Give Us a Vote” Discharge Petition on HR 15 Needs 218 signatures to bring to a vote Has 191 – all DemocratsAs House leadership continues to refuse to bring immigration reform up for a vote, and as Republicans are predicting that they might win control of both the House and Senate in November, it is becoming less and less likely that the House will vote on immigration reform this year.Slide4

What can be accomplished this year?

Every day that the House delays, 1,100 individuals are deported from their families and communities by the Administration. There are bold, concrete actions that President Obama can and must take to stop the pain that families and communities face due to deportations. The President has the authority to change deportation policies, and to provide our undocumented community members opportunities to stay in the United States without fear of deportation. Such action could look similar to the recent Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in which undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. as children can apply to temporarily be able to travel and work legally. Slide5

2 million: Historical Perspective Slide6

Trend 1: Increase in Immigration Detainers (“ICE Holds”)

What Happened Between 2007 and 2012?

Nationwide Rollout of Secure Communities

Expansion of Criminal Alien Program

Continuation of 287(g)

Immigration Detainers: FY 07 vs FY12Slide7

Trend 1: Increase in Immigration Detainers (“ICE Holds”)

Roughly 1/3 of Detainers Result in DeportationEfforts in CA, NY, LA, NM, FL, DC, and IL to limit detainersCase Study: CA Trust Act28 out of 38 detainers were not honored after the Trust Act in SonomaSlide8

Trend 2: Increase in Deportations without HearingsSlide9

Trend 3: Targeting of Individuals With No Criminal History or Only Immigration Offenses

“98 percent of all ICE FY 2013 removals, a total of 360,313, met one of more of ICE’s stated civil enforcement priorities.”-ICE 2013 Annual Report

*30% of individuals with convictions had

ONLY immigration offensesSlide10

Focus on the “Border”?

“In the Obama years, all of the increase in deportations has involved people picked up within 100 miles of the border, most of whom have just recently crossed over.” -Los Angeles Times, 4/1/14Who are these so-called border crossers?Individuals living within 100 miles of the borderIndividuals with US citizen, LPR, DACA family

Individuals who have lived in the US for decades

Individuals fleeing violenceSlide11

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Potential Areas to Focus ReformLimiting State and Local Enforcement through Detainer ReformEnsuring all individuals get a hearing and are screenedReforming border practicesLimiting the categories of individuals who are “priorities”Slide12

Immigration Detention

12Detained populations include asylum seekers, survivors of torture & trafficking, and persons with mental disabilitiesFiscal year 2012: 478,000 persons detained by ICE, the largest number in historyOver $2 billion

spent on immigration detention;

$5 million per day34,000 persons detained each day; 84% lack attorneys-       LIRS 2011 report Unlocking Liberty-       LIRS’ guide to detention visitationSlide13

Recommendations on Detention Practices

13Increase community-based alternatives to detentionEnd arbitrary detention with individualized assessmentsBond hearings and meaningful custody reviewOperate under most recent detention standards to improve conditions

Improve oversight and

accountability-       www.detentionwatchnetwork.org-       http://cambio-us.org Slide14

Dangerous Deportation Practices

14End all night-time deportations: When deportations happen at night, when shelters are closed, migrants are especially vulnerable to attack, extortion or exploitation.  End family separation during the deportation process: Deportation practices should not needlessly separate family members.  Do not deport individuals to particularly dangerous locations: Male migrants are increasingly deported to border towns that are very dangerous.  Return all belongings prior to deportation: All belongings should be returned to migrants, especially money, identity documents, medications, and cell phones.

Provide prior notification to Mexican authorities of people with special needs: The U.S. should provide information to Mexican officials in-advance of deportations of unaccompanied children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, people with serious medical conditions and elderly individuals.  Provide opportunities for border NGO input: A clear, transparent process

for NGOs to provide input

to

U.S.

officials

in

advance

of

renegotiations

of

repartiation

policies.Slide15

Not1More

15The Not1More Campaign is rooted in the community members demand for administrative relief to stop deportations and dismantle the mass deportation infrastructureNot One More DeportationNot One More Family SeparationNot One More County honoring ICE Detainer Holds with Secure CommunitiesNot One More 287 (g) program where local police are trained by ICE to enforce immigrationPrimarily led by the National Day Labor Organizing Network and their partner organizations, the Not1More efforts continues to gain more support from ally groupsSlide16

Case by Case Advocacy To Stop Deportations

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Case by Case Advocacy To Stop Deportations

17Everyday 1,100 people are deported, together we have to work to stop deportations and one way to do that is case by caseStopping individual deportations keeps families togetherLifts up the individual stories and raises public consciousness around why our community and family should not be separatedShows our power as a movement as we collect smaller individual victories of keeping families together

Strengthens the movement to stop deportationsSlide18

Case by Case Advocacy to Stop

Deportations18Maria Del Rosario Rodriguez Varela Lived in the United States for over 18 years, since she was 14 years old.  She and her daughter, Cynthia, a U.S. citizen, were at home in their pajamas when ICE raided their house in Phoenix, Arizona.  Maria was deported within two hours of her arrest. ICE has categorized Ms. Rosario as priority for deportation due to an immigration-related conviction at the border from 15 years ago, when she attempted to cross the border using false documents.

In March 2014, Maria joined 150 deportees crossing the border to return home asking for humanitarian parole. Maria was detained at the entry point and is now in immigrant detention in San Luis, Arizona.

Cynthia continues to fight for her mother’s release and is now one of the participants of the hungers strike in front of the White House. Slide19

Case by Case Advocacy against Deportations

19Elder Gomez-Lopez Father of two young children and a community leader He fled Guatemala after he was shot in the stomach by gang members, leaving him with a colostomy bag. He has now been in Eloy Detention Center for nearly 3 years, where he has suffered severe and ongoing health issuesElder and his mother, Anselma, are desperate and afraid that that Elder will be killed when he reaches Guatemala or die first in detention. The negative factors according to ICE in Elder’s case include a prior re-entry and a misdemeanor conviction for transporting stolen property from when he was young, at least 10 years ago.

Elder’s

mother, Anselma, just completed a 90 mile walk from the Phoenix ICE office to the Eloy detention center, and has come to Washington D.C. from Phoenix, Arizona in a bus to support the hunger strike participants and help highlight her son’s caseSlide20

Administrative Relief from Deportations

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Religious Leaders and Civil Disobedience to Stop Deportations

21February 17th two United Methodist Bishops, General Secretary of the United Methodist Women, the United Church of Christ Washington Office Director, Director of the Franciscan Action Network, Director of Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach and twenty other Ecumenical Faith Leaders March 27th United Methodist Bishop Sally Dyck was arrested at a rally to stop deportations in Chicago along with other faith leaders and immigrant leaders April 4

th

San Francisco Civil Disobedience clergy members who were arrested include Rev. Richard Smith of St. John Evangelist Episcopal Church, and Rabbi Mike Rothbaum, of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice Slide22

February 17- DC and March 27- Chicago Civil Disobediences

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Not1More Actions at the White House

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May 1st Action at the White House

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Next Steps

25Continued Case by Case Advocacy to keep families together and build the movement for stopping deportationsContinue to tell the stories, have community members who have been impacted by deportations come speak at your congregation and tell their storyEscalate advocacy efforts and pressure on the White House and Department of Homeland Security with more letters, calls and actionsSpread the Word: Call In Day to the White House for Mother’s Day May 8thSlide26

Utilizing Film in Mobilizing Communities

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WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?

What you can do to prevent migrant deaths on the border27 ​Get your network to host a screening of Who is Dayani Cristal? Go to www.whoisdayanicristal.com

or Contact Sahar Driver, Active Voice, sahar@activevoice.net. You can also reserve a night in your local theatre for using the Gathr platform (http://gathr.us/films/who-is-dayani-cristal). Gathr is an on-demand theatrical service that allows you to reserve tickets in advance; if you get enough reservations, they’ll bring the film to you! Slide28

IIC Contacts by organization

African American Ministers in Action: Leslie Malachi, lmalachi@pfaw.orgAmerican Baptist Home Mission Societies of the American Baptist Churches, USA:

Aundreia Alexander, Audreia.Alexander@abhms.orgAmerican Friends Service Committee: Lia Lindsey,

llindsey@afsc.org American Jewish Committee:

Chelsea Hanson,

hansonc@ajc.org

Bread for the World Institute:

Andrew

Wainer

,

awainer@bread.org

Church World Service:

Jen Smyers,

jsmyers@churchworldservice.org

Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach: Chloe Schwabe, cschwabe@columban.org Conference of Major Superiors of Men: Eli McCarthy emccarthy@cmsm.org Daughters of Charity: Mary Ellen Lacey, Maryellen.lacy@doc.org Disciples of Christ: Sharon Stanley-Rea, sstanley@dhm.disciples.orgEpiscopal Church:

Katie Conway, kconway@episcopalchurch.org Franciscan Action Network: Marie Lucey, lucey@franciscanaction.orgFriends Committee on National Legislation: Ruth Flower, flower@fcnl.orgHIAS: Liza Lieberman, liza.lieberman@hias.orgInterfaith Worker Justice: Michael Livingston, mlivingston@iwj.orgIrish Apostolate USA: Geri Garvey, administrator@usairish.orgIslamic Information Center: Hajar Hosseini, hosseini@islamicinformationcenter.orgJesuit Refugee Service/USA, Mary Small, msmall@jesuit.org Jewish Council for Public Affairs: Elyssa Koidin, ekoidin@thejcpa.orgLeadership Conference of Women Religious: Ann Scholz, SSND ascholz@lcwr.orgLutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: Nora Skelly, nskelly@lirs.orgMaryknoll Office for Global Concerns: Judy

Coode, jcoode@maryknoll.org

Mennonite Central Committee: Tammy Alexander, talexander@mcc.orgMuslim Public Affairs Council: Hoda

Elshishtawy

,

hoda@mpac.org

Sisters of the Good Shepherd:

Larry Couch,

lclobbyist@gsadvocacy.org

NETWORK:

Ashley Wilson,

awilson@networklobby.org

Pax

Christi:

Scott Wright,

scott@tassc.org

PICO:

Dan Gordon,

dwhitman@piconetwork.org

Presbyterian Church, USA:

Melissa Gee,

melissa.davis@pcusa.org

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas:

Ryan Murphy,

rmurphy@sistersofmercy.org

Sojourners:

Ivone Guillen,

iguillen@sojo.net

3P Human Security

: Tom

Brenneman

,

brenneman_tom@hotmail.com

T’ruah

: The

Rabbinic Call for Human

Rights,

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-

Troster

rkahntroster@truah.org

Union for Reform Judaism

: Sarah Krinsky,

skrinsky@rac.org

Unitarian Universalist Association:

Jen Toth,

JToth@uua.org

United Church of Christ:

Rev. Mari

Castellanos

,

castellm@ucc.org

United Methodist Church:

Bill

Mefford

,

bmefford@umc-gbcs.org

UNITED SIHKS

:

Harpreet

Singh,

harpreet.singh@unitedsikhs.org

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:

Kevin Appleby,

kappleby@usccb.org

U.S. Jesuit Conference,

Shaina

Aber

,

saber@jesuit.org

World Relief:

Jenny Yang,

JGYang@wr.org