Guilford Peace Alliance

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  • Community Discussion on ICE Actions and Legal Protections

    Community Discussion on ICE Actions and Legal Protections

    As of noon on 2/5/26, this event is full/at capacity.

    Please join us at the Guilford Public Library meeting room on Thursday, February 5, 2026 from 4 to 6 pm for an informational session with immigration attorney Glenn Formica to learn about current ICE actions in Connecticut and what legal protections and legal responses are available to our shoreline community. Attorney Formica is a founding member and interim legal director of the newly formed The American Immigrant Law Clinic (TAILC), which is a sponsored project by Connecticut Students for a Dream (C4D). The project seeks to expand access to legal representation for Immigrants detained by ICE. The informational session will provide an opportunity to ask questions and to learn what concrete steps residents and local organizations can take to protect due process, limit harmful cooperation with ICE, and connect affected families with legal support.

    Attorney Glenn Formica is a Connecticut attorney and public advocate with more than 25 years of experience assisting immigrant advocacy organizations and defending immigrants in high-stakes enforcement and deportation matters. As principal of Formica, P.C. in New Haven, he has built a practice that pairs complex litigation with community-facing advocacy, focusing on removal defense, humanitarian relief, and the protection of due process for noncitizens. His reported cases have included emergency efforts to stop the deportation of a Connecticut teens detained by ICE, representation of long‑time Connecticut residents and community leaders detained at routine ICE check‑ins, advocacy for immigrants taking sanctuary in churches, and securing rare humanitarian parole for individuals needing re-entry to the United States to be with dying loved ones.

    Drawing on his years of legal experience and to meet this unique moment in America’s history, Attorney Formica has taken a leave from his private practice to stand up the TAILC project, which seeks to engage impacted immigrant communities in their own legal defense and to provide them with access to lawyers.

    All are welcome. This event is intended for community members, local leaders, attorneys, clergy, educators, and anyone seeking clear, practical guidance on how to protect neighbors and uphold community values. 

    PURPOSE OF THE MEETING

    Seating is limited, so please let us know if you plan to join us.

    PLEASE RSVP
  • Legal Experts Condemn Apple Bowing to White House’s Request to Remove ICE Tracking App

    Legal Experts Condemn Apple Bowing to White House’s Request to Remove ICE Tracking App

    A shocking and painful capitulation on the part of Apple. 

    It’s time to swamp Tim Cook, head of Apple, with emails, letters, and phone calls, as we did for Jimmy Kimmel, telling him to reinstate the ICEBlock app. Ask your friends to write, too.  We can also call, write letters, reach him via his social media or Linked In accounts.  You can include details from the NPR report below and an interview with the ICE Block app also below, clarifying that Pam Bondi’s claims of its threat of violence to ICE agents is a fabrication.  

    Cook’s email address is public:  tcook@apple.com.  It is well known that Cook reads all of his email every morning and while he may not respond to each person who writes, he often forwards emails to other Apple employees, who may respond.

    BACKGROUND: “Apple and Google on Thursday removed apps that alert people when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are nearby following pressure from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

    Critics of the tech giants capitulating to the Trump administration say it shows the sway President Trump has over Silicon Valley in his second term.

    Apple said it yanked an app called ICEBlock from its app store after the “safety risks” of the app were made known to the company. The anonymous, crowd-sourced app describes itself as “Waze but for ICE sightings,” and claims to serve as an early warning system informing people when ICE agents are nearby.

    …”We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did so,” said Bondi in a statement to Fox News.”

    SOURCE

    WAYS TO CONTACT TIM COOK 
    By mail, phone, email

    Hear from Joshua Aaron, Creator of ICEBlock
    Joshua Aaron, creator of ICEBlock app, talks about what the app actually does and how it cannot be used for violence, as Bondi claims.

    READ MORE:

    “ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’” by Joseph Cox