The separation of families and the government “losing track” of immigrant children are two separate issues but part of the same problem: our broken immigration system. Recently, two concerning stories about immigrants have been getting attention: one, that the federal government has lost track of almost 1,500 immigrant children;
Jose, a Mexican artist, faces deportation and life without his 9-year-old daughter. You can help keep them together. Jose is a Mexican artist, who has been detained in immigration for over eight months. Linda Olvera, through Freedom for Immigrants, has been assisting Jose since then in many ways but, most
A former child refugee reflects on how she pays it forward and invites us to rethink our perspectives on migration *“Days, weeks, a month, hand in hand.* We go sick, without eating, without drinking, without sleeping, Or when we speak, we do so crying, Because there is nothing left for
Muniru has been stuck in detention for over 9 months since signing his own deportation order Photo Credit: Noah Silliman on Unsplash I, Muniru, a citizen of Ghana by birth and nationality, was born in Accra in January of 1993. My mum passed away when I was very young. I
by Nicole Ramos Photo Credit: Tina Shull It was June 8th, the evening that H. first called from detention, in the halting Spanish that he had learned out of necessity in his journey from Guinea, across the ocean and through Latin America, trekking northbound to the border of the United
A poem from a detained father to his son Photo Credit: Tim Mossholder on UnSplash It is a pleasure to share my poem with *IMM Print. *I hope my poem will make many others smiling, motivated, and encouraged. For me and my son it will be always a wonderful memory.
Watch and share this short film about a family’s separation at the U.S.-Mexico border José with his family. Photo Source: Alex Mensing on Facebook In November, Border Patrol officials forcibly separated José Demar Fuentes, 30, and his one-year-old son Mateo when they turned themselves in at the
Seven detained immigrants share their artwork to raise funds for those in need during the holidays “December 25” by Luis Quintero Pam Shearman, a volunteer at Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants (ICDI) in Chicago, describes how this holiday fundraiser came to be: So many of the people we visit have
Rosa Ortega describes life after her husband Fernando’s deportation in the cross-border digital stories project “Humanizing Deportation/Humanizando la Deportación” Fernando with his daughter In this video Rosa Ortega shares her story about the deportation of her husband Fernando. He was deported to Peru in May 2017 and since
