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Alison Beckman, @cvt.org & the Lab, shares how immigration enforcement in MN has hurt all community members.
“As soon as federal ICE agents began their accelerated surge into Minneapolis... our clients immediately recognized exactly what was happening.”
After years of helping survivors of torture, CVT clinicians know that when an individual is targeted, the community is affected. Today, we can all use tips for coping. Here are clinicians' suggestions for clients impacted by ICE enforcement. #1: Maintain basic daily tasks. Remind yourself to eat.
“The assault is not over and no one is going to be safe until is ended,” writes Alison Beckman, senior clinician for external relations. ICE must leave Minnesota and the rest of the United States.
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There is much healing to be done in Minnesota & more widely in the U.S. as ICE enforcement continues. While clients are unable to leave their homes for fear of being detained, we’ve expanded our clinical work to telehealth services, accompaniment, volunteer delivery & much more. Go to cvt.org
“. . . we’re in a situation of blatant defiance by the administration. And it matters not only in the United States but around the world,” writes CVT's Yumna Rizvi on the global impacts of the Trump administration’s extensive America First agenda.
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“Our clients come to us with mental health impacts from the trauma they experienced at the hands of some of the most despotic regimes on earth,” writes Sara Nelson, CVT program manager, in her article, “Torture Survivors Living in Minnesota Face ICE.” Read it here: www.cvt.org/articles/tor...
NEW: Important analysis by @sjac-info.bsky.social on trials in the US and UK related to atrocity crimes committed during the Syrian conflict. Read the report below.
“The courts have ruled that sending people to unsafe third countries is illegal; surely it is illegal to release people to unsafe conditions inside the United States as well,” writes CVT's Yumna Rizvi on the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam after being abandoned by CBP.
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“It’s like there is this never-ending siege of tactics to deny New Americans due process & to violate human rights,” writes CVT's Alison Beckman on the surge of anti-immigration policies in the U.S. “The assault is not over & no one is going to be safe until is ended.”
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Two part-time jobs open! CVT seeks one program manager for our clinic in Clarkston, GA & another in St. Cloud, MN. Oversee clinical/administrative operations & provide high-quality rehabilitation services to survivors of torture and war trauma. 20 hours/week jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/cvt/CA...
ICE detained 6 asylum seekers who torture survivors and @cvt.org clients. All were in the US legally. Listen to their stories from the frontlines in Minnesota (via my wonderful former colleague Sara Nelson)... ⬇️ 🇺🇸https://www.cvt.org/articles/torture-survivors-living-in-minnesota-face-ice/
We’re hiring a Senior Director of Global Clinical Services to serve as CVT’s definitive authority on clinical approaches to trauma rehabilitation. Provide vision, strategic leadership and clinical oversight across all global clinical programs. Ph.D. required. dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
“Our clients are facing a brutal reality: Life in the United States is now like the life they fled.” CVT's Sara Nelson writes about what clients have faced in Minn as ICE agents have swarmed the region & detained 6 clients, all of whom are lawfully present in the U.S.
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CVT is proud to participate in this important conversation on human rights.
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“They are people who had been escaping from horrible situations in their countries and now find themselves here with something similar," said CVT's Dr. Florencia Montal about CVT clients who have been deeply impacted and even taken by ICE in Minn.
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GOOD NEWS! One of CVT’s Minnesota-based clients has been released from ICE custody after 33 days in a detention facility. She said, “In the darkest moments, your compassion shown bright, reminding me I’m not alone.”
“Sharing my story helped me release pain I had carried for years,” said Beatrice Ladu, a survivor of LRA war in Northern Uganda, to Patrick Uma in this article about CVT's new report on survivor-defined justice for mothers and children born of war.
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As Pres/CEO of @CVT.org it was always inspiring to meet refugees and asylum seekers who were torture survivors. The fact that ICE has now abducted 6 of CVT’s Minnesota-based clients is immoral, illegal and unconscionably cruel. www.startribune.com/rash-they-fl...
We must protect sensitive locations including schools, hospitals, places of worship, & more, from harmful ICE actions. CVT is proud to join @clasp.org & 430+ orgs calling for oversight on DHS practices & accountability for abuses in immigration enforcement.
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NEW: “This is not the freedom I sought. This is a prison of fear,” said a CVT client who spoke to the @startribune.com anonymously about what he’s experiencing today during the ICE enforcement surge in Minn: many of the same tactics used in his home country.
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After Assad fell in Syria & then the U.S. gov pulled funding, CVT clinicians found ways to continue providing support for Syrians. “Now the question was how to do as much as possible in what would likely be a small window of time available,” writes CVT's Justin Hett.
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NEW on @mprnews.org: CVT’s Minnesota-based clients survived torture back home but now six have been taken by ICE and many are in hiding from the masked and militarized agents patrolling the city. Read about what asylum seekers are experiencing in Minneapolis.
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Torture survivors.
@amnesty.org @cvt.org and more than 1000 other organizations in the USA call for an end to ICE’s onslaught on human rights and American democracy. www.amnestyusa.org/blog/letter-...
6 Minn-based CVT clients, all torture survivors, all with legal status, have been taken by ICE and flown out of state. Only one was released. The situation is what they fled from. “The majority of our clients are essentially under house arrest,” said Sara Nelson
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“Once they get to Texas,” said Sara Nelson, program manager, about the detention center where several CVT clients have been sent, “it’s like they’re in a black hole.” Read new reporting about how people taken by ICE are being treated. @startribune.com
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As CVT clients are taken by ICE, Sara Nelson tells @cnn.com they may get administratively canceled and deported. If deported, they may be a target once again for having fled their home country originally. “People are going to die, to be totally frank,” she said.
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“Our clients are telling us this is the very thing that they fled in their home countries & they’re starting to see it play out in front of them,” Alison Beckman, Lab & @cvt.org, tells @kare11.bsky.social.
See the impacts clients & Minnesotans are facing.
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