A letter from QDEP’s Executive Director, Jamila Hammami Friends, While I don’t typically write a formal letter or appeal for political movement publicly, this issue has no sign of ending anytime soon, and this is incredibly close to home; I personally have multiple stakes in this struggle. If
What this week’s non-decision on Jennings v. Rodriguez means for immigrants in detention awaiting a hearing On the last day of this term, the Supreme Court announced that it will re-hear arguments in [Jennings v. Rodriguez](http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/jennings-v-rodriguez/), the case about prolonged immigration detention
More here: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/correcting-record-recently-arrived-immigrants-show-their-hearings.
A short film produced by CIVIC and NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic CIVIC: You Tube Learn about the history, laws, and unjust realities of the U.S. immigration detention system in this short 5-minute film. *Narrated by Kristina Shull. Script by Rachel Levenson and Terry Ding at NYU’s Immigrant
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
8 detained asylum seekers, who were beaten and pepper-sprayed by guards as they began a hunger strike last Monday, have announced that they are re-launching their hunger strike today, Thursday, June 22nd, in the GEO Group-managed private prison Adelanto Detention Center. The asylum-seekers decided to resume the hunger strike after
Provisions Include Moratorium on Detention Contract Expansion & Creation of State Detention Facility Oversight Christina Mansfield of CIVIC speaks at press conference with CA Senator Ricardo Lara and CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra. June 2017. SAN FRANCISCO, CA. — This week, the California Legislature approved the SB 87/AB 103 budget
Poetry by Ana M. Fores Tomayo The Border Fence Two years ago on World Refugee Day, I published a very personal essay about my status as a refugee child, back then, yet what it is like now for refugees and asylum seekers. Today, I publish my own poem — in its
Jose was detained at the Adelanto Detention Center in California for over a year, from 2015–2016 Photo Credit: Tina Shull My name is Jose U. I am 44 years old and have lived in the United States for 24 years in the San Fernando Valley in California. I have
