2020 News
News on Families in Sanctuary
- “Demandan a Trump por multas millonarias contra indocumentados en ‘santuarios'” La Prensa, February 26, 2020
- “How advocates helped free a Honduran mother from sanctuary after 18 months inside a Philadelphia church” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2020
- “After 554 days, family living in sanctuary at Germantown church wins Visa” Chestnut Hill Local, March 18, 2020
- “The Faces of Deportation” Rolling Stone, July 22, 2020
- “Immigrant mother and three children in Philly church sanctuary stricken by COVID-19” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 2020
- “Mother and children living in sanctuary at Utah church ask Joe Biden for help” Fox 17 WZTV Nashville, October 14, 2020
- “A question for Joe Biden from an undocumented family in Philly church sanctuary: Will you free us?” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 15, 2020
- “ICE quiso intimidar a indocumentados y activistas con sus elevadas multas” El Diario, October 22, 2020
- “Hilda Ramirez Speaks Out for Refugees Despite ICE Intimidation” The Austin Chronicle, November 27, 2020
- “Five Women in Sanctuary Call on Biden to Free Them Through Executive Actions” Truthout, December 7, 2020
- “ICE Is Targeting Women in Sanctuary With Obscure Laws and Retaliatory Fines” Truthout, December 13, 2020
News on Berks County Detention Center
- “Berks County will pay $75,000 to refugee who says she was sexually assaulted by worker at immigration center” The Morning Call, January 23, 2020
- “Opponents of the Berks County migrant detention center are trying a new way to shut it down” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 2020
- “Shut down Berks!’: Philly allies of detained migrant families say it’s time for Pa. center to close” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 20, 2020
- “Activistas demanadan a DHS por mantener operando centro de detención” Telemundo, February 20, 2020
- “Immigration Activists Sue Pennsylvania to Shutter Berks County Detention Center” Legal Reader, February 26, 2020
- “Children detained at Berks Detention Center sue state during COVID-19 crisis” ABC News, April 8, 2020
- “Migrant children detained at ICE facility in Berks County to be released under judge’s COVID-19 order” Philly Voice, June 27, 2020
- “Tribunal suspende la deportación de 23 familias en el Día de Acción de Gracias” La Opinión, November 25, 2020
- “Un juez federal suspende la deportación de 28 menores y sus padres bajo custodia de ICE” Telemundo, November 25, 2020
Other News
- “‘It’s Like Living in Solitary Confinement, but Out in the World’” The Nation, January 23, 2020
- “‘Unbelievably disturbing’: ICE agent’s arrest of undocumented defendant prompts Northampton County executive order demanding warrant” The Morning Call, March 3, 2020
- “ICE criticized for arrest at Scranton hospital” The Morning Call, March 16, 2020
- “Immigration advocates gather to stop Philly hospital from shipping undocumented man with severe brain injury back to Guatemala” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 2020
- “Immigration Advocates Want To Prevent Jefferson Health From Sending Undocumented Patient to Guatemala” CBS Philly, June 25, 2020
- “Guatemalan immigrant who faced a hospital ‘medical deportation’ has been moved to long-term care facility” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 31, 2020
- “Under Trump, hundreds of small changes in immigration rules have had a huge impact” The Seattle Times, November 25, 2020
- “Bajo Trump, cientos de pequeños cambios en inmigración tienen gran impacto” Chicago Tribune, November 30, 2020
- “After summer arrest, advocates push for Delco man’s freedom with #JuanCantWait campaign” WHYY, December 1, 2020