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iAmerica is the national immigrant justice campaign platform of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). We’re empowering dreams and igniting change by advocating for the rights of all American families.
7 days ago
California nurses decry Ice presence at hospitals: ‘Interfering with patient care’
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Caregiving staff say agents are bringing in patients, often denying them visitors and speaking on their behalf to staffWe should be able to attend family gatherings without the fear of being separated from our loved ones. Instead, green card holder Robert Podskarbi was detained during a routine ICE check before a family wedding. This isn’t what family values look like.

Mery Davis, home care worker and SEIU 1199 member
I have very few photos from my life before I arrived in America. At some point, I had a picture of my sisters and me when they visited Honduras after my first child was born. But when I started working in America, someone robbed me and took my pocketbook where I had the photo. That loss didn’t keep me from having a good life here though.

Mery Davis, home care worker and SEIU 1199 member
I have very few photos from my life before I arrived in America. At some point, I had a picture of my sisters and me when they visited Honduras after my first child was born. But when I started working in America, someone robbed me and took my pocketbook where I had the photo. That loss didn’t keep me from having a good life here though.