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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Latest Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Report)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=540 style='width:405.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='border-top:solid #231F20 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #BAB9B9 1.0pt;border-right:none;background:white;padding:11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 0in'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:13.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#272425'>Weekend Read // Issue 62<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>At the foot of the bridge over the Rio Grande, Laura turned to the Border Patrol agent. "When I am found dead," she said, "it will be on your conscience."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>Hours earlier, a police officer had stopped Laura on her way home from work in a car with her cousin Elizabeth. She had no license, no registration — and no visa to be in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>"I can't be sent back to Mexico," <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Laura told Officer Nazario Solis III</a>. "I have a protection order against my ex — please, just let me call my mom and she'll bring you the paperwork."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>Elizabeth tried to tell the officer about Laura's ex-husband, Sergio, who had continued to text her even after he was deported to Mexico. He promised he would set Laura on fire if she ever returned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>"You can't do this," <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Elizabeth told Solis</a>. "He'll kill her."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>It was too late. Officer Solis had already called Border Patrol, setting in motion a chain of events that would make Laura one of an untold number of undocumented immigrants whom federal agents have deported to their deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Sarah Stillman interviewed Laura's family</a> as part of a Columbia University project to record what happens to people once they're deported — something no U.S. government body monitors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>As Stillman's database grew, <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">she wrote in <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>The New Yorker</span></em> this week</a>, it became clear that many deportees had warned U.S. officials that they would be in danger if they were sent back — like Laura did — only to have their pleas fall on deaf ears.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>That is not what is supposed to happen. <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.npr.org%2f2018%2f01%2f09%2f576858224%2fhow-one-group-is-tracking-violence-experienced-after-deportation&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">As Stillman told NPR's Ari Shapiro this week</a>,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:22.5pt;line-height:13.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>What's supposed to happen — both before international law that we have all agreed to through the United Nations, and through protocols that we came up with after World War II — is that people who present themselves to Border Patrol with claims that they may be killed or harmed if they are sent back to their home countries are supposed to get a shot before an asylum officer, and, if their claims are deemed credible, before an immigration judge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-left:22.5pt;line-height:13.5pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>But our immigration laws have changed quite a bit since 1996, when it was made possible to very instantaneously deport people right back across the border, sometimes without giving them a chance to really make their claims, and certainly without a chance to ever be heard by an immigration judge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.aclu.org%2fblog%2fhuman-rights%2fharrowing-tales-wrongly-deported-how-border-patrol-officers-flout-law-and-destroy&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">An ACLU report</a> in 2014 found that of those deported without seeing a judge, "55 percent were not asked about fear of persecution or torture." Another "40 percent who were asked and said they were afraid were ordered deported without seeing an asylum officer."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>ACLU's findings are consistent with what the bipartisan <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.uscirf.gov%2fnews-room%2fpress-releases%2fserious-flaws-in-us-treatment-asylum-seekers-in-expedited-removal-children&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom</a> has been reporting for years. Under President Trump, the situation appears to be getting worse, not better.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>"The United States is not giving asylum anymore," Border Patrol agents have told prospective asylum seekers, <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.humanrightsfirst.org%2fsites%2fdefault%2ffiles%2fhrf-crossing-the-line-report.pdf&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">according to a recent Human Rights First report</a>. "Trump says we don't have to let you in."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Stillman says her team talked to "more than a dozen women</a> who say that they were never asked the required questions, or were ignored, mocked, or even sexually propositioned by U.S. agents after expressing their fears — and then deported to harm."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>That's what happened to Laura, whose body was delivered to her mother just one week after she was deported to Mexico. She had been strangled, doused in gasoline and set on fire. Sergio confessed to her murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>Since 2008, the United Nations reports that <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.unhcr.org%2f5630f24c6.pdf&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">asylum seekers from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have increased fivefold</a>, but this week the Trump administration announced that it is <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2flocal%2fimmigration%2fi-consider-this-my-country-salvadorans-in-us-brace-for-tps-decision%2f2018%2f01%2f07%2f77914402-f19e-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html%3futm_term%3d.1e54f8e8d9e0&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">ending temporary protected status</a> for 200,000 people from El Salvador.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>"I don't want to take my daughter, none of my kids, to a violent environment," Christian Chavez Guevara, who has lived in the U.S. with temporary protected status for 17 years, <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2018%2f01%2f09%2fwith-salvador-decision-trumps-immigration-policy-veers-into-white-nationalism%2f&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">told <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue'>Salon's</span></em> Amanda Marcotte</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>But now, many may have to. That's one reason <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.splcenter.org%2four-issues%2fimmigrant-justice%2fsoutheast-immigrant-freedom-initiative-en&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">we're providing pro bono legal representation</a> for detained immigrants at three detention centers in the Southeast. We know that <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.splcenter.org%2fnews%2f2017%2f10%2f03%2fsplc-wins-asylum-transgender-woman-who-received-death-threats-guatemala&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">for many of them, removal proceedings are a matter of life or death</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>Before Laura's deportation, she had been planning a party for her 23rd birthday. Her family honored the invitations and used the date for her funeral instead. Laura's mother, who now raises Laura's three sons, told Stillman that <a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2fmagazine%2f2018%2f01%2f15%2fwhen-deportation-is-a-death-sentence&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">the oldest has asked twice when she is coming back</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>"Remember where we left her?" she says she explained. "We left her on the other side of the border."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>The Editors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>P.S. Here are some other pieces that we think are valuable this week:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.motherjones.com%2fpolitics%2f2018%2f01%2fits-not-just-freezing-classrooms-in-baltimore-americas-schools-are-physically-falling-apart%2f&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">It's not just freezing classrooms in Baltimore. America's schools are physically falling apart.</a> by Edwin Rios for </span><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>Mother Jones</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newyorker.com%2ftech%2felements%2fthe-neo-nazis-of-the-daily-stormer-wander-the-digital-wilderness&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">The neo-Nazis of the Daily Stormer wander the digital wilderness</a> by Talia Levin for </span><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>The New Yorker</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fopinions%2fjeff-sessions-just-endorsed-an-unconstitutional-fine-on-the-poor%2f2018%2f01%2f09%2f87ccffc6-f268-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Jeff Sessions has endorsed an unconstitutional fine on the poor</a> by Lisa Foster for </span><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>The Washington Post</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><a href="https://donate.splcenter.org/page.redir?target=https%3a%2f%2fwww.buzzfeed.com%2fjohnstanton%2ffrom-gunshots-to-alleged-rapes-a-toxic-legacy-of-police&srcid=1003260&srctid=1&erid=200907007&efndnum=14738564757&trid=c7fd95ba-3e82-4a41-b05c-0662c4e82173">Who's going to believe us? Native Americans say they're targets of shootings and jailhouse rapes by white law enforcement.</a> by John Stanton for </span><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'>BuzzFeed News</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#272425'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best always,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"'>Del<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Life is full of promises or disappointments depending upon what you expect of it and how you wish to respond.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=540 style='width:405.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='border-top:solid #BAB9B9 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #BAB9B9 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:9.0pt 0in 9.0pt 0in'></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>