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1/18/21
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 11 January – please share for transparency
Ø 4 Days until Biden’s Inauguration. He promised a 100-Day halt to deportations. Witness with us.
Ø 3 Deportation flights to Honduras for the second week in a row. Last week were the first flights in 9 weeks following devastation from 2 hurricanes.
Ø Another flight to Africa into great danger with deportations to at least Somalia and Ethiopia, and possibly Kenya.
Photo is deportation flight to Africa boarding in Alexandria LA. By Frances Kelley.**
1/17/21
We have been to the border. We have seen people on both sides of the border. Many of generous spirit and intellect will admit that on both sides the people are worthy of sympathy. Others, like us, who have stood on both sides of that line of guns and uniforms and rusted steel, have had our natural sympathies heightened, and it has become for us that thing which most enrages those less generous: a deep revulsion for the institutions that block the flow of suffering humanity toward the light, toward life.
1/11/21
DEATH FLIGHTS - WEEK OF 4 January – please share for transparency
Ø No Slow Down During Presidential Transition. Ø 22 Deportations – Most since the week of 9 November. To 8 different countries. Ø 3 Deportation flights to Honduras. First flights in 9 weeks following devastation from 2 hurricanes. Ø 97 Total flights – Most since week of 6 October. Photo is the 1st deportation flight of the year arriving and disembarking in Guatemala this week.
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.
