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NCA Demands Immediate Release of Jailed Palestinian Family in
Texas
January 2007
NCA Action Alert
Demand Immediate Release of Jailed Palestinian Family in Texas
The National Council of Arab American strongly condemns the unjustified and inhumane jailing of a father, mother and four children being held in separate jails after being uprooted from their peaceful home in Texas during a violent and racist raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Ibrahim family came to the U.S. legally seeking asylum to escape the violence of Israeli Apartheid.
However, in complete disregard for the human rights of the Ibrahim family, ICE ripped 2-year old daughter, an American born citizen, from the arms of her pregnant mother, Hanan Ahmad, and placed her in a foster home. Her mother, Hanan, was later placed in a jail cell with her 5-year-old daughter, Fatem.
ICE also placed the remaining members of the Ibrahim family in separate jails as follows:
7-year old Maryam Ibrahim and her 12-year-old sister Rodaina share a jail cell;
15-year Hamzeh Ibrahim at T. Don Hutto jail in Texas; and
Father and husband, Salaheddin Ibrahim, is being held in a separate jail in Haskell, Texas.
NCA National Office
What can you do?
CONTACT ICE
Please contact ICE Field Office Director, Marc Jeffery Moore, @ 210-967-7175
and ask him to release the family on house arrest.
You can also contact U.S. Department of Homeland Security @ Operator Number: 202-282-8000 or Comment Line: 202-282-8495
If you live in Texas, please contact your Senators and State Representative and ask him or her to intercede in this tragic story. Click on the link below to find out who represents you in the Congress.
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index. htm
You can either right your own letter or use the sample letter below.
DONATE
Legal fees to save the Ibrahim family will be costly. Please send checks payable to:
"Arab American Community Coalition" Legal Defense - Ibrahim Family to:
P.O. Box 31642 , Seattle , WA 98103 .
All donations are tax-deductible with 100% of your donation going to the Ibrahim Family. Please don't forget to check if your organization has a matching program.
For more information please contact info@theaacc.org. Also you can check the links below:
Counterpunch Article
Video showing the family on local news
Sample Letter
Sample letter to Congress members
January 2007
Congressman Sam Johnson
2929 North Central Expressway, Suite 240
Richardson, TX 75080
http://www.house.gov/formsamjohnson/IMA/issue.ht m
Congressman Sam Johnson,
I am urging you to stop the severe mistreatment and unjust detention and living conditions being inflicted by ICE on the children and parents of the Ibrahim. If the family is to be deported, I am urging you to take action in releasing the Hanan Ahmad and Salaheddin Ibrahim family of Dallas, Texas from the T. Don Hutto jail during their deportation proceedings.
Since November 3, 2006, the family has been forced by ICE to endure severe mistreatment and the continuation of unjust and unfair conditions. Severe mistreatment by ICE includes, but is not limited to: Forcing the family's two-year-old daughter, an American citizen, to live with strangers; keeping the children in jail and preventing them from attending school; unjustly and unfairly separating children from parents - who are not a flight risk; letting the family languish in jail, refusing to allow them to leave pending resolution.
The Ibrahim family, which includes Hanan Ahmad, Salaheddin Ibrahim, their 15-year-old son, Hamzeh, and their 12-, 7- and 5-year-old daughters - Rodaina, Maryam, and Fatem, is being held at the T. Don Hutto jail in Taylor, Texas while they await deportation. As a U.S. citizen, the youngest daughter of just 2-years is separated from her family and living with strangers in a foster home. Not only are the children suffering, frightened and missing their baby sister, Hanan is pregnant and feeling ill.
The Ibrahim family has been honest and forthright with Immigration communicating with them throughout the five years that they have lived in this country. The Ibrahim family came to this country legally about five years ago and applied for asylum. Please take effective action in the near future to stop their deportation, support their asylum petition, and to have them released pending resolution.
Thank you for your support of the Ibrahim family's humanitarian cause and in stopping their deportation from the United States and their release from jail.
Respectfully,
Your Name
Your Full Mailing Address
cc: Senator John Cornyn
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Senator John Cornyn
Occidental Tower, Suite 1150
5005 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX 75244
http://cornyn.senate.gov/index.asp? f=contact&lid=1
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
10440 North Central Expressway, Suite 1160
Dallas, TX 75231-2231
http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm
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