"I can't go back," my client told me as soon as he sat down at the table in ICE detention."They will kill me."I believed him. The judge agreed that they probably would kill him, just before he denied his asylum claim.He was deported.They did.I just found out today.
— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019 x2019 American "family values": politely offering to deport a man's US citizen children to be killed along with him.Why are we accepting this? What the fuck are we?
— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019Seems to me like deporting American citizen children knowing that they will be killed by a foreign gang makes you an accomplice to murder (or attempted murder in this case). Outsourcing genocide is still genocide. Personally, I call on local prosecutors to file charges and would urge that proceedings for crimes against humanity be opened in the Hague.
Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 · 6:34:29 PM +00:00 · GShaw xFYI media: I appreciate the interest and I know how important these stories are, but this family is not and will not be available--ever--and I've said as much as I'd ever have to say about this publicly here. Thank you for understanding.
— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019Unsurprisingly the family would like to avoid becoming the target of violence in their home country or risking retaliation against other family members in the US.
Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 · 6:40:04 PM +00:00 · GShawx
For everyone asking how someone truly in fear for their life could be denied asylum: Ask Jeff Sessions.He did his part with this very bad precedent (among others), issued specifically to try to ensure that our work would be that much harder and cases like mind would be denied pic.twitter.com/k0yzediJXp
— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019 xFeels wrong to do this under the circumstances, but so long as I have your attention you should know that we have opened @GoldenStairsImm to take on these kinds of cases. There's no appointed counsel in #immigrationcourt& most can't afford private attys.https://t.co/WkuecT7ENJ
— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019