“The Wall Separates Families, But Never Feelings” [**Humanizing Deportation**](http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/) now houses over 30 digital stories made this summer in Tijuana by people who have experienced deportation, with the assistance of a team of graduate students from UC Davis and Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This
Share these Bond Campaigns Victor Perez (left) with his sister Valeria. Amazing news: With your help, CIVIC’s campaign to free Victor Perez, 23, has been a success!! He was released this week after spending over 3.5 years at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California and reunited with his
by Alondra Pegueros Photo Credit: Tina Shull *My mother gave me a piece of advice that stuck with me. “Don’t forget where you come from.” I come from Mexico and I was raised in the United States. My whole life I have come across people who have more opportunities
Poetry by Maria Ibarra-Frayre Photo Credit: Tina Shull #### **Papers?** I have thousands of them, Tucked in and out of notebooks, Detailing the coldness of shackles Around your ankles, And handcuffs tied to swollen wrists Papers, salty with children’s tears And sweat of fathers and mothers gripping tightly To tiny
by Jasmine Mendoza The Mendozas — Reunited in Mexico on July 12, 2014. My greatest fear was being a single parent. It came true on February 26, 2013, in the form of deportation. After nearly losing Claudio in the desert in an attempt to come home Father’s Day weekend after
Donate to his Bond Fund Click the image to contribute to Arnaldo’s bond Arnaldo Garcia Duran has been detained in immigration detention since 2012. Arnaldo is supported and loved by his family. Like so many people in the U.S., Arnaldo struggled with depression and drug addiction. The only
Katherine Weathers of the Etowah Visitation Project crafts quits for the daughters of a friend deported after four years in detention Luis Fernando Estela Gomez spent four years in immigration detention in New Jersey and Alabama. He came to the United States 22 years ago on a tourist visa, and
I have been deported from the United States three times, but my family is more important than my freedom With my daughter *My name is Leonidas de Jesus Loza Ocon. I am 44 years old. I currently live in El Salvador, but my home and my family are all in
How Patrick Thaxter, who spent three years in immigration detention, resisted deportation Patrick Thaxter is a former chef who now works quietly in the kitchen of a good friend in Germantown, Philadelphia. Originally from Jamaica, he traveled to the U.S. for a soccer tournament eighteen years ago. On that
