Immigrant rights advocates gathered today outside of the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility at Batavia in support of undocumented women facing deportation. More than 50 people, including many from New York City — and one sporting an oversize Donald Trump head, orange skin and all, holding a “Deport Me” sign — stood close together to listen […]
Dolores Bustamante
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Vigil to be held Tuesday for farm worker facing deportation
[ UPDATED] The court date for Dolores Bustamante, an undocumented worker facing deportation, has been postponed to May 8. Advocates had originally planned for a day-long vigil for Tuesday, December 19, at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, during her immigration trial. Bustamante and her then-3-year-old daughter fled Mexico in 2004, and she ultimately settled […]
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For undocumented workers, a rock and a hard place
Many undocumented farm laborers are in the country looking for real, hard work — and our agricultural system has come to crucially depend on them. Others, like Dolores Bustamante, have fled a dangerous situation. But undocumented immigrants face a lot of barriers, and it’s creating a situation of isolation
