Immigrant & BIPOC Solidarity NE Ohio

Immigrant & BIPOC Solidarity NE Ohio Working for an equitable immigration policy and promoting intercultural awareness and appreciation. Separations of families became a central issue.

The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network (GCISN) was founded in 2003 and immediately began reaching out to Greater Cleveland’s Islamic and Arab-American community. Immigrant detention cases were discovered and the GCISN began making jail visits to detainees, contacting family members, attorneys, government officials, and the media. Unfortunately, the new federal office of Immigration and Cu

stoms Enforcement (ICE) was unrelenting. Mothers and fathers were either incarcerated or eventually deported, leaving children with single or no parents, or their extended family. The GCISN provided some comfort to the families by aiding jail visitation, contacting child advocates and social services when needed, raising money for family and/or legal expenses, and sponsoring public events, press conferences and meetings to give case updates and advise immigrants of their rights.

Let's begin with abolition of pirvate prisons.
06/09/2026

Let's begin with abolition of pirvate prisons.

David Venturella's appointment as acting ICE director is the latest in a pattern: Many former employees of the private prison company GEO Group end up working at the federal agency, and vice versa.

06/09/2026
06/06/2026

CH4IR submitted a public records request to Cleveland Heights for their Flock search records Months ago - We have yet to receive a response. It makes you wonder what Cleveland Heights has to hide...

Read the story here: https://www.wkyc.com/video/news/local/cleveland/flock-no-protesters-flood-council-meeting-as-cleveland-considers-extending-safety-camera-contract/95-14d76b67-17ee-48a0-9af6-001d36b315d5

Learn more about the fight against Flock here: https://linktr.ee/clvhts4immigrantrights1

Austin Kocher: "Migration isn't a problem to be solved." Amelia Frank-Vitale on Borders, Caravans, and the Banal Violen...
06/06/2026

Austin Kocher: "Migration isn't a problem to be solved." Amelia Frank-Vitale on Borders, Caravans, and the Banal Violence of Deportation"
Amelia Frank-Vitale, an assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton, has spent over a decade studying what deportation actually does to people in Honduras. Her new book, Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds, argues that deportation is part of larger cycles of displacement that fuel further migration and leave untouched the underlying conditions that make people leave in the first place. Amelia and I sat down this week to talk through the book, and I’d encourage you to watch the full conversation above.

Leave If You Can provides the on-the-ground research needed to contextualize what reporters are finding at reception centers in Honduras right now. Caitlin Dickerson reported last month in The Atlantic that parents are arriving in detainee sweatsuits asking aid workers whether they lose their parental rights when they are deported. Research by Zain Lakhani at the Women’s Refugee Commission, which we covered earlier this year, finds that under the current administration, 800 mothers have been detained and 60 percent deported, nearly double the rate under Biden. My conversation with Amelia offers insights from a decade of research that connects the conditions producing displacement in Honduras to the enforcement cycles that perpetuate it.https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/migration-isnt-a-problem-to-be-solved?triedRedirect=true

05/21/2026

We continue demanding and a .

We invite you to use both hashtags, mention her name, and share initiatives in support of her freedom. Ruth committed no crime: she is imprisoned for exposing corruption in El Salvador.

05/21/2026

There's a data center fight happening in your backyard right now, and most people have no idea.

71% of Americans don't want one of these built in their community. In Ohio, neighbors are organizing across the state to have a say before the bulldozers show up.

Open the map and look for a petition near you. If you find one, sign it.

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