“It shouldn’t be this hard to protect people”: VaAP’s own Leah Brenner comments on the missing “newport 10” and violent detention.
On June 11th, VAAP Staff Attorney Leah Brenner met with WCAX to discuss how migrant workers are disappearing after being detained. Specifically, following an ICE detainment of 10 migrant workers in Newport, VT, Brenner comments on how these actions violate one’s due process.
“These are people who work in our neighborhood and have kids in our schools. These actions violate a person’s due process, what the government can do to someone’s physical body. It shouldn’t be this hard to protect people when illegal things happen to them,” says VAAP’s own Leah Brenner in the interview. Watch the full clip at WCAX to hear Brenner comment on protecting those facing legal injustice following the ICE detainment of the Newport 10.
Following WCAX, Brenner also commented to the Newport Daily Express on June 17th, going into yet another violation of due process that happened soon after, as Migrant Justice leaders José Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz and his 18-year-old stepdaughter Heidi Perez were forcibly removed from their car after windows were smashed in by ICE.
