Native Organizers Alliance - Not enough lawyers. Not enough time. Our immigrant relatives need our help.

 

Patricia, Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades -- a detention center for people rounded up by ICE -- is 1,100 feet from a traditional Miccosukee village and within three miles of 11 Miccosukee and Seminole villages and ceremonial grounds. We have worked in partnership with the Miccosukee Nation to protect their sovereignty and sacred places. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE are detaining our immigrant relatives in this inhumane detention camp with filthy water, overcrowded conditions, and sewage-soaked floors. Insects have infested the food. Medical care has been virtually nonexistent. Civil rights lawyers found migrants detained for months with no charges and no bond hearings. Now, Native Organizers Alliance is partnering with the Workers Circle to ensure that detainees at Alligator Alcatraz are connected with legal counsel before the detention camp is closed and detainees are disappeared back into an unaccountable system. The Workers Circle is an over-100 year-old Jewish organization formed to protect immigrant workers’ rights. They continue to do so today, including organizing weekly vigils outside of Alligator Alcatraz. In the many months of standing outside protesting the illegal imprisonment of immigrants, they've connected with about 50 families who have no legal representation. Many of them likely have viable habeas or bond cases -- legal arguments that could set their family members free. But they'll never know that if no attorney ever looks at their file. Will you help provide legal counsel to those inhumanely detained at Alligator Alcatraz by splitting an urgent donation today between Native Organizers Alliance and the Workers Circle? SPLIT A DONATION Sadly, what is happening today isn’t new. The Cherokee people were brutally forced from their homes and detained in “emigration depots” in Alabama and Tennessee in the 1830s. In the 1860s, the U.S. military drove the Navajo people into prison camps. During World War II, the federal government incarcerated Japanese Americans in 10 prison camps, some of which were also used to imprison Native peoples in the 19th century. Help those who’ve been immorally detained at Alligator Alcatraz receive legal counsel to defend their human rights. Give a donation to Native Organizers Alliance and the Workers Circle today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately, split evenly between the Workers Circle and Native Organizers Alliance: Chip in $25 now Chip in $75 now Chip in $150 now Chip in $250 now Chip in $500 now other amount Hawwih ("thank you" in Caddo) for all you're doing to support the movement for our immigrant relatives’ rights, Judith LeBlanc (Caddo) Executive Director BUILD NATIVE POLITICAL POWER

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