*Zeresenay Esmias Testfatsion fled his home country of Eritrea to seek asylum in the U.S., arriving in January 2017. Conditions in Eritrea are deplorable. In 2017, the U.N. recommended publicly that the President of Eritrea be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Zeresenay’s
My name is Maria*. I have been living in the U.S. for 14 years, but now I am in immigration detention in Illinois. It is painful and exhausting when you don’t have anyone’s support. Being incarcerated because of this country’s immigration laws can be terrifying, and
by Rachel Prandini, Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) Image Credit: John Moore/Getty Images Last week I spent the day at a “short-term” Customs & Border Protection (CBP) detention facility on the border in California. I was there to interview children who had recently been apprehended by CBP about
The Office of Refugee Resettlement is turning its back on the children for whom they are responsible.
Separating Families Is the Real Crime, by Christina Mansfield The Mansfield Family Reunited Across generations, my family knows the pain of separation. My mother Roberta surrendered her first-born child Josh for adoption in 1970. Every person with authority in her life convinced her that she could not have a child
Jordon’s story went viral after he quit his job rather than help ICE tear families apart. He wants others to follow in his footsteps. When you learn CPR, one of the things you learn is that before beginning chest compressions, you need to get someone to call 911. If
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
The way in which Mr. Perez visibly reflected on and was affected by his path through detention and deportation proceedings impacted the class as a whole.
