40-year-old man’s death is the fourth Border Agent-related death in recent months El Paso, TX — The #DefundHate coalition and local immigrant rights groups mourn the loss of yet another life while in custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and demand accountability from the agency. On March 19th, a 40-year-old man died at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. According to the CBP press release, the man suffered from flu-like symptoms, liver failure and renal failure. Telemundo reports the man’s name was Rene Pablo Perez Gordillo. Continue reading

Coalition of immigrant, civil rights, faith, LGBTQ, legal services and other organizations demand Congress cut funding for detention, deportation, and border militarization WASHINGTON, D.C. — The #DefundHate coalition announced today the next phase of its national campaign to defund Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Both agencies have well-documented track records of abuse and have repeatedly thwarted oversight and accountability. CBP and ICE play a key role in Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, and are instrumental in carrying out the militarization of border communities, devastating deportations of individuals and families, and the unconscionable detention of migrants. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER —  In an extraordinary rebuke of his fake emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border, the U.S. Senate today rejected Trump’s unconstitutional power grab to sidestep Congress’ power of the purse. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER —  Today, House Democrats took a bold step to protect millions of young immigrants and others with temporary protections by offering them a path to citizenship —  all without further militarizing the southern border region. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER — The Trump Administration released its 2020 budget proposal today, which reveals how the administration is moving the country deeper into a state of tyranny as it essentially proposes to transform the Department of Homeland Security into a national police force. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER — The House passed a resolution today, 245-182, to block Trump’s fake emergency declaration to build a deadly, harmful and wasteful wall while further militarizing the southern border. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER — Today, the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) filed a lawsuit with Sierra Club, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, to protect the people and places that are threatened by Trump’s dangerous power grab last week. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER — Today President Trump declared a national emergency in a dangerous and unconstitutional grab for even more funding for border wall and militarization. Trump’s announcement of a false national emergency came after Congress voted yesterday to fund 55 miles of deadly, harmful and wasteful wall, and to provide additional funds to expand Trump’s detention capabilities and deportation force. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER — Today Congress voted to fund 55 miles of deadly, harmful and wasteful wall, and provided additional funds to expand Trump’s detention capabilities and deportation force in the context of a Trump-created crisis that led to the longest government shutdown in history. Continue reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, some Democratic members of the conference committee opened the door to further enable Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda with a proposal to increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget by $396 million and Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) budget by $278 million. Continue reading