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Capital & Main: “How Immigration Activists Got ICE Out of a County Jail”

Rev. Deborah Lee, director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and the central organizer of the vigils, said the faith groups involved had to examine their conscience. “The transfer of many detainees instead of their release was hard to swallow at first, and many families felt helpless,” she said. “We asked ourselves if we were responsible for their transfer, as ICE accused us. But the families reminded us that ICE moves detainees all the time, and often they don’t know where their own family members are.”

Read Capital & Main’s full 9/12/2018 article by David Bacon here.

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Seattle Times: “California teen uses quinceanera to protest dad’s detention”

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area teen is hoping her immigrant father is released from a detention center in time for her upcoming birthday and held an unusual protest to draw attention to his case.

Alexa Lopez on Saturday had a coming-of-age party known as a quinceanera outside a detention facility in Richmond where her father, Raul Lopez, is being held.

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CBS News: “Girl dances in quinceañera gown outside ICE detention center where her dad is held”