This is interesting..not because they shut this down, again....but because of the timing....a conspiracy guy..might look askance at the timing. Is this constitutional rights violation? If so, whose?
âOrange Is the New Blackâ highlighted an immigrant hotline. Then ICE shut it down.
"In the seventh season of Netflixâs âOrange Is the New Black,â the fictional character, played by Diane Guerrero, had an immigration hearing coming up, but like many immigrants, she didnât have an attorney. How could she stop her own deportation without help? In the freezerâs secrecy, her incarcerated friends told her not to worry: They had found a group online, Freedom for Immigrants, offering a hotline for detainees in need of a free lawyer to call.
âBut you have to be careful, though,â their friend Gloria told Maritza. âApparently, if they figure out that youâre using the hotline, Big Brother shuts it down.â
This month, less than two weeks after the seventh season of the show premiered, Gloriaâs warning has become reality: Real-life U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shut down the real-life Freedom for Immigrants hotline intended for immigrants who canât afford attorneys, the group said Friday.
To the nonprofit organization, the timing is not a coincidence.
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âI think it would be a stretch of the imagination to believe the shut down of our hotline is motivated by anything but ICEâs desire to silence one of its loudest critics,â Cynthia M. Galaz, Freedom for Immigrantsâ national hotline director, said in a statement to The Washington Post.
According to the organization, ICE blocked detainees from being able to call the hotline free of charge on Aug. 7 following the release of âOrange Is the New Blackâ Season 7, which portrays the pain of deportation, the bleak conditions of immigration detention and the lack of rights afforded to immigrants â such as the right to an attorney. On Thursday, Galaz and co-founder Christina Fialho sent a cease-and-desist letter to ICE, expressing concern that the national attention brought to the group through the show has led the government to retaliate. They argue that it amounts to a breach of the First Amendment, especially given the group and the showâs advocacy against ICE detention."
Does the 1st amendment protect fiction? A Netflix series??
âOrange Is the New Blackâ highlighted an immigrant hotline. Then ICE shut it down.
"In the seventh season of Netflixâs âOrange Is the New Black,â the fictional character, played by Diane Guerrero, had an immigration hearing coming up, but like many immigrants, she didnât have an attorney. How could she stop her own deportation without help? In the freezerâs secrecy, her incarcerated friends told her not to worry: They had found a group online, Freedom for Immigrants, offering a hotline for detainees in need of a free lawyer to call.
âBut you have to be careful, though,â their friend Gloria told Maritza. âApparently, if they figure out that youâre using the hotline, Big Brother shuts it down.â
This month, less than two weeks after the seventh season of the show premiered, Gloriaâs warning has become reality: Real-life U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shut down the real-life Freedom for Immigrants hotline intended for immigrants who canât afford attorneys, the group said Friday.
To the nonprofit organization, the timing is not a coincidence.
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âI think it would be a stretch of the imagination to believe the shut down of our hotline is motivated by anything but ICEâs desire to silence one of its loudest critics,â Cynthia M. Galaz, Freedom for Immigrantsâ national hotline director, said in a statement to The Washington Post.
According to the organization, ICE blocked detainees from being able to call the hotline free of charge on Aug. 7 following the release of âOrange Is the New Blackâ Season 7, which portrays the pain of deportation, the bleak conditions of immigration detention and the lack of rights afforded to immigrants â such as the right to an attorney. On Thursday, Galaz and co-founder Christina Fialho sent a cease-and-desist letter to ICE, expressing concern that the national attention brought to the group through the show has led the government to retaliate. They argue that it amounts to a breach of the First Amendment, especially given the group and the showâs advocacy against ICE detention."
Does the 1st amendment protect fiction? A Netflix series??