Yes! If you think you may be getting arrested. I always bring mine though coz I can’t live without

What you can do:
1. Contact your NYC Council Member to pass the NYC Trust Act

2. Contact your NY State Senator & Assembly Member & Gov Hochul & demand a special legislative session to pass the NY4All Bill.

⁣ Thank you to our partners @thenyic @nylpi and @maketheroadny

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We call on our city and state legislatures and leaders to enforce our existing sanctuary protections; we call on the NYC Council to pass the NYC Trust Act, and for the Governor and State to pass and enact the New York for All Act to prohibit state collusion with immigration enforcement.
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and deportation agenda that the federal government is attempting to carry out. State and city resources must not be used to funnel anyone into the cruel spaces of federal immigration enforcement.

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stay out of out of
healthcare facilities which have always been deemed as sacred sanctuary spaces.

6. And finally: We demand that all of our state and city entities reject any attempts to collude with the inhumane detention

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5. We also call on our Health Professional Academies and Societies, the Hospitals and other Healthcare Facilities, and state and local government to demand access for independent clinicians to assess health of those detained, and to use their collective voices and power to demand that DHS
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4. We also demand that ICE stay out of all healthcare facilities. All our patients deserve privacy and safety with their care.

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3. If ICE refuses this full independent access, then it is prima facie admission that conditions are inhumane. Just as with covering their faces and names, they know they are doing wrong!

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And since DHS has proven to be too deliberately cruel, dishonest and incompetent, this access needs to be for physicians and other licensed healthcare professionals who are independent of DHS.

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2. This request is immediately for any detainees who may be at 26 Federal Plaza, now and in the future. But it also applies to all immigrant and refugee detention spaces, wherever they may be across America, and under whatever ostensible auspices.

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1. We as licensed clinicians who have taken an oath to care, are demanding direct and unfettered access as independent observers and potential care givers to assess health status and provide care or referral where needed.

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After we attempted to gain access to the 10th floor and was denied we held a rally and press conference where these remarks were captured. The main speaker is Dr. Steve Auerbach a retired pediatrician and public health physician

Our demands:

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Omg!!

Hi @maddow.msnbc.com thank you so much for amplifying our action.I am one of the physicians who attempted to see the immigrants detained at this building that you shared. I also volunteer as an immigration court observer. We would love to have one of our doctors on your show to discuss the issues!

Hi Gwynne thank you for report on the inhumane conditions 26 Federal Plaza. I am the physician who called in about observing and trying to help during a medical emergency. We are having a press conference to highlight the medial neglect by ICE. It is Monday 8/18 at 2PM at 26 federal plaza.