El Pueblo Unido Collaborates with Students to Hold Know Your Rights workshops
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ATLANTIC CITY – The immigrant rights organization El Pueblo Unido of Atlantic City said that it collaborated with the Guatemalan Students Association of Stockton University to hold a community workshop this month titled “Know Your Rights Against Migra,” attended by more than 100 students.
The students received information about their rights, but organizers said they also left with “confidence, clarity, and certainty that they’re not alone.”
“The energy in the hall said it all, when students come together, care and learn together, collective power is born,” organizers said in a Feb. 9 Facebook post.
El Pueblo Unido provides free direct services, Know Your Rights workshops, English as SL and citizenship classes, rapid response to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement activity, and other grassroots organizing that protects families and builds real power across South Jersey.
“In El Pueblo Unido, we believe in popular education, in the strength of the student organization and in a solidarity that is lived, not what is said. This is what is born when the youth stand up, report and organize,” the organization said.
“The future is now. Only the people save the people.”
Federal immigration authorities have increased their activities in South Jersey. Early Tuesday, ICE carried out a series of coordinated enforcement actions across New Jersey targeting individuals with outstanding removal orders and prior criminal convictions, according to officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Residents in several South Jersey communities, including Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester counties, reported seeing unmarked government vehicles shortly after 5 a.m. as ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) teams executed what the agency described as “targeted arrests.”
Advocacy groups across the state responded quickly. The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice criticized the raids, arguing they create fear in mixed?status households and disrupt communities.
“These predawn operations destabilize families and erode trust,” the organization said in a statement.
ICE officials countered that the arrests were part of routine enforcement efforts carried out nationwide.
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