Watch the recording here:
The recording can also be watched here on the Pax Christi USA YouTube channel.
On May 9, Newark’s Mayor Ras Baraka was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside an ICE detention facility, a shocking and disturbing incident. ICE has no authority over US citizens, but we know that ICE has been wrongfully targeting, detaining and even deporting US citizens and legal residents. The potential for abuse with an extrajudicial agency such as ICE, particularly in the hands of a government trending further and further toward authoritarianism, is significant.
The time to act to protect our neighbors is now.
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, May 22 at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific on how to respond.
- Learn what is happening with immigration enforcement, in particular ICE detention expansion and the movement to resist mass deportation.
- Learn about accompanying families who are fearful of ICE and those dealing with the separation of immigration detention.
- Find out some of the things you can do in your community to help protect and support neighbors who are being targeted.
Speakers include:
- Marcela Hernandez – organizing and membership director, Detention Watch Network
- Elya Piazza – rabbinical intern, Never Again Action
- Katy Sastre – executive director, First Friends of New Jersey and New York
- Rev. Chloe Breyer – executive director, the Interfaith Center of New York
- Asma Elhuni – organizer, Resistencia en Accion NJ
- Li Adorno – organizer, Cosecha NJ
>>Use this link to register. We hope to see you then.
Co-sponsors:
- Never Again Action
- Resistencia En Accion New Jersey
- Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- Immigrant Justice Network
- First Friends of New Jersey and New York
- Clergy and Laity for Economic Justice
- Cosecha New Jersey
- NETWORK Lobby
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Detention Watch Network
- Immigrant Defenders Law Center