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Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler

1/8/21

Are we better than this?

Ask black children who learn when they are young to keep their hands out of their pockets when police are near. Ask children who lose their connection to the world inside of prison tents on the border, never to be found again. Ask parents of those children if their hearts will ever heal.

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ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler

1/5/21

Countdown to #NoDeportations, 1/5/2021. President–Elect @JoeBiden pledged to halt deportation flights for #First100Days. We want him to do it permanently.

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Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler

1/4/21

Friends, we may not agree on how to manage the migratory flow of people wishing to make the US their home. But I'm certain we can all agree to this:

Torturing innocents is never okay.

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ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler

1/4/21

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 28 December – please share for transparency Photo is the last deportation flight of the year arriving and disembarking in Guatemala this week.

Ø Coming Soon. Watch for our Full Year 2020 report. See the total 2020 ICE Air deportations and total flights.

Ø 15 deportations this week, 3 below last 6 week average, even though total flights at 63 were 20 below last 6-week average.

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Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler

12/31/20

What’s Next? Postcard Campaign

Postcard #3 (Mail January 19-22)

The World is Watching

This campaign is being sent to President-Elect Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, VP-Elect Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Mayorkas (nominated to head Department of Homeland Security).

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Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler

12/29/20

Some of us were talking this morning about how it is hard for people to get their minds around the enormity of the day-after-day deportation of humans from airports and across borders, taking place around us and being done in our name.

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ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler ICE Air Flights Margaret Seiler

12/26/20

DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 21 December

Ø Feliz Navidad (Merry Christmas) – No

Ø Nochebueno (Christmas Eve) – 8 deportations

Ø Navidad (Christmas) – 2 deportations

Ø 8 Weeks with no flights to Honduras because of hurricanes Eta and Iota. Prior there were 4-5 per weeks.

Ø Lowest level of deportations to Guatemala (1) since the week of 1 June

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Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler Bearing Witness Margaret Seiler

12/23/20

We all have our jobs. And we all decide what our jobs are.

I know that many people who visit this page are feeling hopeful about what will happen to people who have come to our border as migrants. But some of us have been among these pilgrims. We have seen the squalor that US policy decisions have imposed upon them. We have heard about kidnappings and rapes. We have watched as bodies floated in the river. We have watched as busloads of men, women and children are transferred to planes in chains, for deportation.

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