Title 42 ReCast: It's Biden's Legacy Now

Now the reason for the expulsion of more than 1 million people fleeing climate devastation, endemic violence, political repression, and crippling poverty, Title 42 was Trump’s crime against humanity.

Until it became Biden’s.

Sarah Towle recasts Witness Radio EP 1, Title 42: The Invisible Wall, with the 2021 winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, Guerline Jozef, and RFKHR President, Kerry Kennedy, to expose the anti-Blackness baked into our US immigration system.

Listen here: Title 42 ReCast: It's Biden's Legacy Now

It isn’t easy. The flood of coverage of the dire situation in Ukraine is driving a wave of refugees that is being seen by millions who have never watched a border before. And those watching are feeling pain and sympathy that are more familiar to those of us who have stood ourselves at the border and at the gates of detention camps.

Painting detail by Melissa Bowen Rubin

NEW REPORT:

ICE Air Flights February 2022 & Last 12 Months

We see pictures now, video too, that helps us know the pain of families separating. These pictures travel across from Eastern Europe, across the more prosperous West, cross the ocean, and lap up on the shores of our consciousness.

WITNESS RADIO: Episode 11

A Tale of Two Presidencies: Proof that #ImmigrationISaBlackIssue

This episode's featured guest is Thomas Cartwright, a member of the leadership team of Witness at the Border. Tom dedicated his time during the past 24 months of the global pandemic to collecting, compiling, and communicating data that the US government would prefer you did not know about: the US Deportation Machine.

We live in a time when the amount of information that reaches us is enough to swamp us, overwhelm us, and, frankly, discourage us. With the pandemic, the climate, the specter of war, some issues, I should say some people, find themselves overshadowed. Forgotten.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforcement of Deportation (DED) for Cameroonians!

NEW REPORT

ICE Air Flights January 2022 & Last 12 Months

Witness at the Border releases a statement for Commemor-Action, 6th February 2022 - MIGRATION IS A RIGHT!

A Global Day of Struggle against the regime of death at our borders and to demand truth, justice and reparations for migration victims and their families!

Been researching for a Mexican-American Studies lesson on how our country transitioned from open borders in 1840, to the current militarization of our border community.

It is evident there is a continued affinity for inhumane practices such as bathing our immigrant ancestors in gasoline, to the recent incarceration of immigrant children.

PLEASE JOIN US IN GLOBAL COMMEMORATION AND ACTION FEB 6, OF FALLEN AND DISAPPEARED MIGRANTS AT BORDERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!!

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The Lone Star state, Texas, carved from a clash of manifest destinies competing for possession of land once settled by indigenous folk, pre-European migrants, a state that once defended its right to keep slaves, now defends its rights to decide who belongs there and who does not. It is filling jails with people it calls trespassers, many of them numbering among those much earlier peoples, some of them descendants of slaves.

The Department of Homeland Security asked for Public Comments: Identifying Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families.

This comment has been submitted by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, J.D. on behalf of WITNESS AT THE BORDER, with the support of the Task Force on the Americas of the National Lawyers’ Guild, the Forum on Haitian Migration in the Americas, and the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement.

January 2022 Witness Newsletter

WITNESS RADIO: Episode 10:

Is Family Separation What We Voted For?

Witness Radio's Executive Producer, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, and Creator Sarah Towle kick off their second season by reflecting on the Biden administration's one-year record on border and immigration, framed through the civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's the recording of a recent webinar by the Texas Border Collaboration Network, with a thorough explanation of the witnessing of ICE Air flights, by Thomas Cartwright.

“Matamoros Pietâ” by Melissa Bowen Rubin

Our Letter to the Biden Administration:

Uphold Rights to Full Reparations & Restorative Justice for Families Harmed by Family Separation During Trump Era

Witness: Looking Back, Looking Forward (a webinar)

There, but for the roll of the dice, go I. I could have been born in extreme poverty, outside the borders and gates that protect my privilege. My skin could have been another color. Despite the science fictionny paradoxes presented by these me-not-me scenarios, they are nothing but an extension of the fair measure of the capacity for empathy we are all born with. Empathy that is ignited when we let ourselves look into the faces of others and imagine their plight.