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SEARAC is a national civil rights organization that builds power with diverse communities from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to create a just society.
1979

The year SEARAC was founded, in response to the largest mass resettlement of refugees in US history

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1 million

The rough estimate of SEAAs living in CA, a number representing 1/3 of the total population of SEAAs in the United States

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50 years after war and violence displaced our Southeast Asian communities, our families are STILL being torn apart. 

When we fight for passage of the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act and the New Way Forward Act, we fight for community members like Ma Yang, a mom of 5 who has lived in Milwaukee since she was a baby, deported to a country she barely knows after already serving her time. 

🔍 Read her story at the link in our bio.

📧 Sign up for our email list at https://bit.ly/SEARACnews or at the link in our bio to learn how you can support our advocacy.

50 years after war and violence displaced our Southeast Asian communities, our families are STILL being torn apart.

When we fight for passage of the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act and the New Way Forward Act, we fight for community members like Ma Yang, a mom of 5 who has lived in Milwaukee since she was a baby, deported to a country she barely knows after already serving her time.

🔍 Read her story at the link in our bio.

📧 Sign up for our email list at https://bit.ly/SEARACnews or at the link in our bio to learn how you can support our advocacy.

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We are joining together to demand our families are kept whole and our freedoms protected. Mahmoud Khalil should be safe in his home with his 8-month-pregnant wife, not in immigration detention far from his family and loved ones. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is an attack on our freedoms - to speak what we believe, learn, and live safely. Support the demand for his immediate release: https://shorturl.at/Lm86S 

Posted @withregram • @detentionwatch This is it. Period.

Over the weekend, ICE targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University. Khalil is a permanent resident. Support the demand for his immediate release: https://shorturl.at/Lm86S

Remember:

➡️ Immigrants in detention can be undocumented or documented immigrants, including people whose immigration status is not current, expired or is under review. The immigration detention system is fundamentally inhumane and unjust. 

➡️ ICE operates within a culture of secrecy. Obscuring abuses and purposefully transferring people from detention center to detention center to disconnect them from their loved ones and support community. 

➡️ Suppression of dissent is a key tactic of the administration. The ramp up of targeting activists to silence political opposition is a clear example of the rise of authoritarianism and undermining of democratic values under Trump.

We are joining together to demand our families are kept whole and our freedoms protected. Mahmoud Khalil should be safe in his home with his 8-month-pregnant wife, not in immigration detention far from his family and loved ones. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is an attack on our freedoms – to speak what we believe, learn, and live safely. Support the demand for his immediate release: https://shorturl.at/Lm86S

Posted @withregram • @detentionwatch This is it. Period.

Over the weekend, ICE targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University. Khalil is a permanent resident. Support the demand for his immediate release: https://shorturl.at/Lm86S

Remember:

➡️ Immigrants in detention can be undocumented or documented immigrants, including people whose immigration status is not current, expired or is under review. The immigration detention system is fundamentally inhumane and unjust.

➡️ ICE operates within a culture of secrecy. Obscuring abuses and purposefully transferring people from detention center to detention center to disconnect them from their loved ones and support community.

➡️ Suppression of dissent is a key tactic of the administration. The ramp up of targeting activists to silence political opposition is a clear example of the rise of authoritarianism and undermining of democratic values under Trump.

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