160 Bangladeshi Immigrants Seeking Asylum Being Deported - 26:14
From Hurt and Hope During Holy Week Towards Resurrection
with
The New Sanctuary Coalition NYC
and
Fahd Ahmed, Exec. Director, DRUM – South Asian
Organizing Center
The U.S. is
scheduled to deport over 160 Bangladeshis who had requested asylum. These
men have been kept in detention under deplorable conditions, so much so that
they were driven to go on hunger strikes to bring attention to their plight.
Now, they are fighting for basic human rights against their imminent deportation. But, on Easter Friday, a special day for many Christians a
broad
coalition led by faith-based organizations came to Federal Plaza in a
pray out to raise up the principles of that holy day by protesting the
deportation of their brother Bangladeshis and advocating for changes to our
immigration policies that lift up the common humanity of all and provide
people with the opportunity to live in dignity. The protestors surrounded
Federal Plaza, speaking the words of pain and suffering that immigrants
experience and railed against a system that punishes and destroys families
and communities.
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