Cliniquita Fund

11/05/2021

Very proud of Pioneer Valley Workers Center, Claudia Quintero, Adam Gomez, Carlos Gonzalez, Lindsay Sabadosa and all the workers who stand up for their human rights, health and a just society. We are honored to be apart of this coalition of the just.

08/05/2021

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The crash came less than a week after Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas issued an executive order barring private transportation suppliers from providing ground transit to many migrants. His press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday night.

The order “scared off” licensed drivers who transported migrants in the Rio Grande Valley, said Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, the founder and director of the Sidewalk School for Asylum Seekers.”

The vehicle was carrying 30 people believed to be migrants in Brooks County, about 80 miles north of the Mexico border, the authorities said.

07/28/2021

The intersection of two crises: workers’/immigrants’ tights and the climate emergency.

We all deserve better than to work in 117-degree heat

07/15/2021

“Perez is among scores of immigrants hoping to get their deportation cancelled because they didn’t receive proper notice of the court proceedings.

“In April, the Supreme Court ruled in Niz-Chavez vs. Garland that the federal government must provide all required information to immigrants facing deportation in a single notice.”

BOSTON (AP) — Just a few short months ago, Lucio Perez moved out of the western Massachusetts church he’d lived in for more than three years to avoid deportation.

07/10/2021

The ICE is cracking. The advance of a human- and family- friendly policy.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing, and postpartum women for deportation, reversing a Trump-era rule that permitted officials to jail thousands of immigrants in those circumstances, according to a new policy released Friday.

06/02/2021

By any means necessary, stop the deportations and reform immigration.

AMHERST — Lucio Perez, who spent 3 ½ years in sanctuary in an Amherst church to avoid deportation to Guatemala, could have his case reopened, and might be able to seek permanent residency in the United States, based on a recent Supreme Court decision,...