All undocumented migrants required to register, and other horrific authoritarian ideas

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Welcome to our news segment: TL;DR of Immigration News, for when the news is Too Long and you Didn’t Read it.

This is a weekly collection of immigration-related news stories. These bite-size summaries will keep you up to date without overwhelming your inbox.
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The apparatus for detention and deportation is expanding. This should be terrifying for all of us, but it will harm, terrorize and traumatize our immigrant neighbors first. In recent weeks, we’ve seen the current administration lay the groundwork for destroying due process by exporting imprisonment to a place where American citizens can, according to the administration, simply disappear.

At home, we’ve seen the demand for immigrants to self-register with the government, and for massive funding for deportation enforcement--which means more terror in our neighborhoods and more vulnerable people caught in the detention-deportation pipeline.

Yet, resistance is possible. The seeds of institutional pushback are being planted, and grassroots resistance is ramping up. See below for opportunities to get involved.
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Trump administration wants $45 billion to build a vast gulag apparatus in the United States

This staggering sum of money represents a nightmare scenario for the people in the crosshairs of the right wing hate machine. Trump and his allies are seeking ten times the normal expenditure rate, to ramp up their kidnapping and imprisonment apparatus, all while in the midst of shredding any remaining vestiges of due process.

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Federal judge skeptical of national registry for undocumented immigrants

This Friday, April 11th, a new rule will go into effect that would require all immigrants to “register” with the US government or face criminal charges, or possibly detention and deportation. “Everyone… must register, give fingerprints and provide an address, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.”

According to a Tuesday article in the Courthouse News Service, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant rights along with a few other groups have led the charge in suing the administration for attempting to enact this law in such a short period of time.

There’s still time to leave a public comment on this racist, xenophobic law DT is trying to enact. Take 5 minutes to use this toolkit to make public comment.

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Institutional Resistance is Possible: Tufts Administration and SEIU Back Rümeysa Öztürk

Last week, seven days after doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped off the street in Somerville, MA, by plain-clothes, masked ICE officers, the Tufts University Office of the President released a statement in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team. The statement affirms that Öztürk, along with the rest of Tuft’s international students, faculty, and staff, are valued members of the community whose work and freedom of movement is essential to the ability of the university to carry out its mission. In addition, it affirms that the University has found no evidence that Öztürk was in violation of any Tufts policies, nor the Immigration and Naturalization Act, and pleads for due process and an immediate release so that Öztürk can return to her studies.

A couple of days later, SEIU Local 509, the union of which Rümeysa is a member, projected over Boston Commons images of Rümeysa with the words “Free Rümeysa Now!” and “No scabs, no fascists.”

These acts of institutional support for the disappeared and explicit resistance to the blatant and sweeping attacks on academic freedom and freedom of movement generally are unfortunately the exceptions to the rule of anticipatory institutional compliance with the Trump regime. Still, they are encouraging developments that come as the result of massive public uprising in support of Rümeysa Öztürk.

A judge is considering releasing Öztürk on bail while her case moves through the courts. Let’s keep up the heat.
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8 Actions you can take Right Now:

  1. Mark your space a sanctuary. Support Never Again Action today with a donation of $18 or more and receive at least 1 free poster to assert and remind you and all your guests that we open the door for Elijah–not ICE. Donate before 11am tomorrow to get your poster during the holiday!

  1. Immigration organizer Sithy Bin in California is being ordered to leave the country. Tell Governor Newsome to stand up to the deportation agenda and keep Sithy Home.

  2. Intent on doubling down on the targeting of communities, the Trump administration is trying to force people to register their immigration status or be further criminalized. People with citizenship need to let the administration know, we will be clear and public in our opposition against the collecting of our immigrant neighbor's information. Submit your public comment against the registry here.

  3. Jeanette Vizguerra, community leader and mother, was arrested by ICE in Colorado. Jeanette has been fighting her deportation case since 2009 and is a pillar to her community and family. She has organized and supported immigrant and human rights for years, she needs our support now.

  1. College Students/Faculty/Staff: Sign the ICE Noncompliance Pledge. When Trump abuses “Jewish safety” to justify deportations, we must spread the word to not comply.

  2. Respond to reports of suspected raids in your area in real time by reading and sharing the information in this 1-page guide. For those of us who are allies especially, learn how to watch for ICE and protect your neighbors.

  3. Updated for 2025: Never Again Action is equipping members to organize themselves into neighborhood groups (or “pods”) to be trained and respond to deportation threats on a hyperlocal level. Learn more and build or join a pod: bit.ly/BuildAPod2025

  4. Support Never Again Action’s organizing by making a donation today. You can make a tax deductible donation via our fiscal sponsor at this link, or you can donate directly to our 501(c)(4) organization at this link.

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