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D.I.R.E Meeting
February 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Event Source: InterFaith Rise
InterFaith Rise is helping form a rapid response team in Middlesex County. Thursday, February 23rd, is the first meeting of D.I.R.E. It will be held at 12 noon in the Reformed Church in HP parlor. You can call in at 605-475-4850 code 5897 if you are interested in hearing our conversation but cannot attend.
Sign up information in the website link below: http://www.direteam.org/
D.I.R.E is a rapid response team that is local to Middlesex County but part of a network of Rapid Response Teams being planned in partnership with Faith In New Jersey.
The goal of D.I.R.E is to run interference between ICE and its Enforcement & Removal Operations in our communities.
We will…
- form text/app systems for communicating emergencies while they are occurring.
- create an ‘army’ of concerned citizens who will rush to places of crisis to bear witness, take video and offer support to victims and families.
- Inform the news media immediately if ICE is hurting members of our community.
- push for towns to use their NIXEL systems to inform communities of ICE/ERO action in their neighborhoods.
- encourage school boards, municipalities etc…to adopt Sanctuary City resolutions that disconnect them from the work of ICE/ERO.
- create a media, social media nightmare for the President in the aftermath of any raid or detention of a resident in our community.
- speak truth to power.
- push our legislators to introduce real immigration reform based on the Senate bi-partisan plan from 2012.
- work with attorneys to seek legal responses to the Executive Order.
- accompany immigrants to scheduled appointments with ICE.