POETRY: "Resting in the Lord" and "Bars"
Malex' poems depict both despair and quiet acceptance at the thought of death while in detention.
Malex' poems depict both despair and quiet acceptance at the thought of death while in detention.
Now is the time to act and be on the right side of history. We must free detained and incarcerated people in Georgia before it is too late.
Will the COVID-19 pandemic be the catalyst for overhauling the systemic torture of immigration detention? Melanie Pino-Elliott isn't so sure.
The debacle of the zero-tolerance policy and the botched response from HHS resulted in untold damage among families and caused immeasurable trauma to thousands of children.
A Vietnamese woman writes to us about the misconceptions many Americans have about immigrants, and indignities endured at the Northwest Processing Center.
"We still have 70,000 children caged across the U.S. There's still unaccompanied minors going to court and making decisions on their own.”
As the number of COVID-19 cases at Otay Mesa rises, so do alarming reports of hunger strikes and the use of pepper spray.
Maybe it is time that we as a nation re-evaluate, and recognize the humanity of all people. Our quarantine seems difficult, indefinite and uncertain. So does theirs. To them, the circumstances of COVID-19 are nothing new.
Jarred Bean's timely essay provides stark parallels between ethnic cleansing and the government's response to the COVID-19 crisis.