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Last week, HURRICANE, or The Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network, an initiative of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) released a report on U.S. violations of the rights of immigrant families, workers and communities titled \u201cGuilty by Immigration Status\u201d. The report provides a picture of a troubling pattern of systemic abuse requiring further investigation and documentation. The various cases point to longstanding problems and concerns that reproduce a climate of impunity, in particular: 1) rampant due process violations, and 2) a glaring lack of accountability and oversight in immigration enforcement and services. The report goes on to say that immigration policing \u2013 using immigration status to implement repressive policies to detain persons \u2013 is now pervasive as a draconian form of social, economic and political control from the womb to the workplace. The vast majority of those targeted for deportation are immigrants, non-citizens and citizens of color, or those who \u201clook or sound\u201d foreign. There is mounting evidence that DHS-led immigration policing is fueling widespread racial, ethnic\/nationality and religious profiling and criminalization, one of the central pillars of the new immigration enforcement regime. Immigrant and non-immigrant members of our communities are paying a severe price, ending up in prison and being deported in droves.<\/p>\n