2019 News
News on Families in Sanctuary
- “Asylum in Shambles” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 2019
- “Part 1: Why More Immigrants are Taking Sanctuary in Philly than any other US City” WHYY, January 22, 2019
- “Part 2: Why it’s harder for immigrants to get out of sanctuary than it is to get in” WHYY, January 23, 2019
- “Going to school when your family is in hiding from ICE” The Hechinger Report, January 31, 2019
- “Fugitives From ICE, A Family Finds Sanctuary In A Pennsylvania Church” NPR, March 7, 2019
- “What Is ‘Sanctuary’ for a Black Immigrant Family in the US?” Rewire.News, June 10, 2019
- “ICE issuing fines to immigrants who have taken sanctuary in churches” ABC News, July 2, 2019
- “How a Mother in Sanctuary Became the Center of ICE’s ‘Crackdown on U Visas’” Rewire.News, August 21, 2019
- “Guatemalan Refugee In Austin Fined $300K For Not Leaving U.S.” Patch, October 6, 2019
- “Woman living in sanctuary at North Philly church fasting for Thanksgiving to protest ICE” WHYY, November 27, 2019
- “The Sanctuary Strategy” The Progressive, December 1, 2019
News on Berks County Detention Center
- “Citizen of the Week: Michelle Angela Ortiz” The Philadelphia Citizen, April 25, 2019
- “How does Berks County’s family detention facility fit into Sunday’s planned immigration raids by federal ICE officials?” The Morning Call, July 14, 2019
- “What the Trump admin’s latest immigration move might mean for Pa.” WITF, August 27, 2019
Other News
- “#AbolishICE Means Abolish Deportation” Migrant Roots Media, January 26, 2019
- “‘We Have No Stability Right Now’: When Your Husband’s Freedom Is at ICE Agent’s Discretion (Updated)” Rewire.News, January 30, 2019
- “The battle for immigration legal services in PA” Al Día, June 19, 2019
- “Trying to Fix What’s Broken with Immigration” Al Día, August 7, 2019
- “ICE Allegedly Detaining LGBT Asylum Seeker In Defiance Of Court Ruling” Newsweek, October 30, 2019
- “Gay asylum-seeker detained by ICE, split from family is denied release” NY Daily News, October 31, 2019
- “LGBT asylum-seeker stuck in ICE custody for months fears for his life: Lawyer” ABC News, November 1, 2019
- “ICE Is Indefinitely Detaining a Gay Asylum Seeker Despite Court Order” The Advocate, November 3, 2019
- “ICE continues to detain gay asylum-seeker without review, going against federal ruling” LGBTQ Nation, November 3, 2019