Jun 24
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MY LIFE!! MINE!
truly, love is sitting and reading the same fanfic together and giggling ❤️
I woke up this morning, checked my messages, saw one from the Innocence project, and was briefly elated to see that Carmen Mejia had been exonerated.
Her story sounds like most of the Texas women I've read about since keeping up with the Innocence Project's work: child died a tragic death, inadequate or false scientific testimony, decades in jail for a murder no one committed just on the back of losing her child. She was separated from her remaining 4 kids, 3 of whom were under the age of 8.
I keep reading. Was she released?
No. She's subject to an immigration hold for 48 hours. 48 hours for ICE to decide whether they're going to detain her after spending over 22 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME SHE DID NOT COMMIT.
she came here in full accordance with US laws. she had a work permit. she was here and free for at least 6 years. her children are US citizens.
then we arrested her after watching her baby die and claiming she did it and held her for at least 22 years while her documentation expired and her children grew up without her.
If ICE detains her I am going to go ballistic.
At today’s exoneration hearing Judge Wahlberg said, “Ms. Mejia, I wish that signing this order here this afternoon would be the end of this tragedy … The best thing I can do at this point is to say to any federal authority that looks at this case, please recognize that Carmen Mejia, before this incident had legal status, had no prior criminal history, has served nearly 23 years in the custody of the state of Texas for something that was not a crime, that during that 23 years in the penitentiary, she did not commit any violable offenses, that at this point in time, having been in custody of the state of Texas for 23 years, she does not have the wherewithal to flee the country, no money, no identification, no passport, no way to leave. She is not a flight risk.” “So I hope that all of those factors are taken into account when some federal authority looks at this, because a removal at this point would be compounding the tragedy that’s already occurred,” he urged.
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Something to look for in news articles on immigration raids: what time were people "briefly" detained?
Because if it happened before dawn and they taken to a secondary location - I don't care if they were only held for an hour. That's not brief.
The use of "briefly" by interviewed ICE leaders is supposed to legitimize the use of force on broad swathes of immigrant communities by making it sound routine, procedural, and minor, so don't be fooled. "Briefly" detained is how they're referring to knocking people's doors down at 3am and dragging them and their families out of bed, without so much as checking their documentation (documentation including visas that were disposed of in some cases, allegedly).
i think this might be all you need to know about us