Latina AOC's Gut 20 Hours After 'Asylum Ban.' Here List Pro Bono Immigrant Lawyer & Gaza Encampments. Some Fluent Español
The [more] gut wrenched about ‘asylum ban’ maybe [felt, hit] harder for Jennifer Koonings outside White House. 10am today DC time, hours from now will be Day - 7 hunger strike, voluntary fasting, protest about Biden’s complicit to killing more and more children in Gaza. She’s nurse. and AOC is exact representative of Jennifer, her exact district. I already non-mandatory ‘fasting’ in last 17 years. Mandatory fasting for Muslim [Ramadan season] just 29 - 30 days annually. Some location will be [fasting] 15.5 hours, mostly equatorial countries, but if you in around South Pole or North Pole will be [fasting] 22 hours. Mandatory fasting ‘Ramadan’ ended [we call] with ‘Eid El Fitr, Idul Fitri, Eid Mubarak’, ‘Bayram’, ‘Lebaran.’ I already fasting at least 340 days / year in last 17 years. For solidarity of hunger strike outside White House by Jennifer, I put myself in last 6 days just eat 1 tiny plate, rest day is fasting [in Islam we call ‘Sunnah Fasting’]. No matter how long Jennifer survive for hunger strike.
Water Jug, CCNY encampments, Gaza, same district with AOC and Jennifer Koonings
10am today, hours from now will be Day - 7 hunger strike, voluntary fasting by
Jennifer Koonings, protest about Biden’s complicit to killing more and more children in Gaza. and Jennifer KooningsWith blackout communication in Gaza, please keep talking about Gaza like Jennifer.
Biden is quickly invoking an authority to shut off access to asylum for migrants who cross the US - Mexico border illegally. Too coincidence after Mexico have Jewish - Pro Palestine, go green. IPCC board panel, pure feminist President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Her first statement, after around 52 percent national votes counted, issued around 0.54am Mexico City or 1.54am DC, around 52 hours ago, and even Biden already congratulated Claudia. By my count, at least [via twitter / X] 23 President or Prime Minister already congratulated her, and not counting former President or former PM, or respected politician non leader across the world. Jeremy Corbin to be 1st ever respected global politician giving statement, around 1.48am Mexico City or 2.48am DC or 6.48am London [51 hours ago].
Twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man Arnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador [yes, not Puerto Rican like AOC]. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said.
Arnovis, whose family’s search for safety shows how the United States - in concert with other Western nations - has gutted asylum protections for the world’s most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and struggles to find security after being repeatedly deported to a gang-ruled community in El Salvador, traumatic experiences.
Adding historical, literary, and current political context to the discussion of migration today, history of asylum law and practice through ages to the present day. Human portrait of those who cross borders - it is an urgent and persuasive case for sharing the country we call home. The poverty and violence powerful nations inflict on poor countries is a major reason so many flee their lives and families. Offering expansive historical analysis of how ancient religions, cultures, and societies understood the imperative of welcoming the outsider, particularly those seeking safety from harm or death, and contrasting it with current world order.
Edward Snowden literally ‘Asylum Seeker’ like Arnovis.
List lawyers, previously ‘free or pro bono’ relate about encampment, but right now I believe ‘pro bono’ for asylum ban.
Attorney Alice Sakakini-Ashkar. As a Palestinian-American Immigration Attorney, I’d like to thank all the students. If you need legal assistance, please reach out to me!
📧 info@alicejd.com or call my office 646-666-879
Lawyers for Good government organization. One of lawyer, Lauren Worsek, won Tanya Neiman Pro Bono Professional of The Year from the US National Association of Pro Bono Professional.
Ali Awad is also Palestinian American lawyer like Alice Sakakini-Ashkar
Lawyer Ramzy Ladah. Arab [Iraqi] America
Another Palestinian American lawyer. Ghassan Shamieh. Ghassan can speak Espanol / Spanish too.
Public Defender Peter Alexander, popular with ‘LOLOVERRULED’
Michael Kipp Mueller from lawfirm Brent & Fiol, LLP —— this lawfirm also provide Espanol hotline. Unsurprisingly, as Michael Kipp Mueller from Columbia, in which, 5 days ago, Columbia re-erected or re-establish encampment.
Biden administration, desperate to limit border crossings after a key pandemic-era measure expired late Thursday, slashed the amount of time asylum seekers have to find lawyers before their crucial first interviews with immigration officials.
The Trump administration issued a similar policy in 2019, but that effort was later blocked by a federal court. President Biden’s move is the latest example of him adopting a Trump-style scheme in an attempt to manage high numbers of border crossings.
Biden’s version of the policy, outlined in an email sent to asylum officers Wednesday, gives asylum seekers at least 24 hours to find and consult an attorney once they receive information on the process. Before the change, migrants had at least 48 hours from their arrival at a Department of Homeland Security facility to find a lawyer.
The move could allow officers to more rapidly remove migrants who do not pass their first screening, known as a “credible fear” interview.
Title 42, a decades-old policy invoked during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow border agents to quickly turn back migrants, expired just before midnight on Thursday, and officials were expecting a spike in migrants trying to cross the border. Complicating matters, just hours before Title 42’s expiration, a federal judge in Florida blocked the Biden administration from quickly releasing migrants from Border Patrol custody without court notices.
Border agents already apprehended more than 10,000 migrants in a single day Tuesday, according to internal data. By Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had more than 28,000 migrants in custody, significantly more than its facilities are rated to hold, the data showed.
“In support of the Department’s goal to more quickly provide relief to those who are eligible while more quickly removing those who are not, effective immediately the minimum time between the noncitizen’s acknowledgment of receipt of the Form M-444, Information about credible fear Interview, and the credible fear interview will be 24 hours,” a lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official on asylum wrote in the email announcing the change.
The directive also made clear that migrants who request to reschedule their initial interviews will need to “demonstrate extraordinary circumstances” to do so as to not “unreasonably delay the overall process.”
USCIS will “continually assess” whether a return to the 48-hour wait period is appropriate, according to the email.
A USCIS spokesperson said in a statement that the agency “is committed to ensuring that noncitizens in expedited removal are given time to consult with the person of their choosing after being referred to USCIS for a credible fear interview. In order to expeditiously process noncitizens in expedited removal, USCIS will ensure that noncitizens will have at least 24 hours for consultation.”
Biden administration officials believe that deterrence, through quick deportations and a policy that limits asylum for those who cross without authorization, will allow them to manage increases in migration at the border.
In credible-fear interviews, migrants who convince an asylum officer that there is a significant possibility that they could establish they have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country usually get to stay in the U.S. and pursue their asylum cases in immigration court.
Migrants who can’t clear that bar are usually deported.
“The decision to cut the time makes it clear that the Biden administration is doing everything possible to fast-track people for deportation as opposed to giving them the opportunity to truly access due process and a fair chance to have their asylum claim adjudicated,” said Taylor Levy, an immigration attorney specializing in border cases.
The so-called consultation period for asylum seekers is crucial, advocates have previously said.
Immigration lawyers argued that former President Trump’s version of the policy, which allowed migrants a business day, rather than 48 hours, limited migrants’ ability to find attorneys, gather evidence and prepare for the interview.
The Trump policy was one of the first changes under the leadership of then-USCIS head Ken Cuccinelli, who followed the Trump administration’s continuous efforts to limit asylum at the border and deport more migrants. Ur Jaddou, Biden’s director of the agency, called Trump’s effort “another way to limit the process” and said it would lead to “more deportations.”
A federal court blocked the policy after advocates challenged the legality of Cuccinelli’s appointment.
“For asylum seekers, credible-fear interviews are often matters of life and death. Cutting in half the time that people have to prepare for what might be the most important interview of their life raises the risk of errors even higher,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, said Thursday. “The Biden administration should stop trying to sacrifice due process and a fair shot at protection for expediency.”
The administration has said it is prepared for the end of the Title 42 policy and will send troops to the border, institute a policy that limits asylum for those who cross without permission, surge asylum officers and judges to help process people and rapidly deport those who do not have a right to stay in the U.S. DHS officials have also said they would expand the number of phone booths for migrants to consult attorneys in custody.
The U.S. also recently solidified a deal with Mexico to allow DHS officials to turn back nationals from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua to Mexico.
“The border is not open, it has not been open, and it will not be open subsequent to May 11. And the smugglers who exploit vulnerable migrants are spreading misinformation,” DHS Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a recent news conference. “They are spreading false information, lies in a way to lure vulnerable people to the southern border, and those individuals will only be returned. To the individuals themselves who are thinking of migrating: Do not believe the smugglers.”
While the administration has pursued deterrence-focused policies, it has also opened up more slots for asylum seekers to seek entry at ports of entries and will create processing centers to help migrants determine whether they have a legal path to the U.S.
At the same time, the Biden administration will allow migrants from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala to apply to enter the U.S. if they qualify for a family reunification program.
The Department of Homeland Security will continue to also allow immigrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela who have verified sponsors in the U.S. to apply to enter the country legally.
In DC this morning, by Jennifer Koonings and Moataz Salim, both CODEPINK Alert CODEPINK’s Newsletter. Moataz losing more than 80+ families in Gaza since October, because Israeli bombing.
Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza [141 sq mi] since October, or 20 times Dresden 1945 [127.0 sq mi]
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Jennifer Koonings and Medea Benjamin Medea’s Substack
More than 43,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, mostly women and children, and nearly 83,000 others injured, also [data by] Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, but [data] at least May 13, 2024. Due to Rafah invasion [May 6], Euro-Med no longer provide newest data until today. Nearly eight months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, also warrant by International Crime Court to Netanyahu and Gallant, which in its latest ruling has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.
footage by CODEPINK Alert CODEPINK’s Newsletter, multiple nurses in DC, after humanitarian duty in Gaza.
Please keep donating to [1] PCRF / Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or [2] Freedom Flotilla.
As PCRF pictures by Dr Rajha in Gaza, Ariana Grande - Butera, and
Jennifer Koonings PMHNP, MS, MS, NYSAFE part ofCODEPINK AlertJen
Unlike Israeli and pro zionist student [very easy] get a money [thanks for multiple billionaire], contrary, Palestinian very hard to get a money [like encampments across the world]. Link attached by CODEPINK Alert Jen Jennifer Koonings PMHNP, MS, MS, NYSAFE is Nagham, same healthcare worker like Jennifer but in Palestine. 3 Weeks ago is Nagham’s birthday.Link to donate. Nagham is still alive after Rafah bombing 276 hours ago.
Link to help journalist Abdelrahman Alkahout, Reshare by CODEPINK Alert
Jen Jennifer Koonings, PMHNP, MS, MS, NYSAFE. Abdelrahman is still alive after Rafah bombing 276 hours ago