Intentional abuse and the criminalization of poverty: A first-time visitor to Adelanto reflects upon her experience, and the outrage it inspired.

36 hours after he recited a poem criticizing ICE at a public forum, Jose Bello awoke to find ICE officers at the door of his home.

Detained for 2 years, Honore lives with pain, inadequate food - and rats. "I am without hope to leave," he writes.

Being more conscious of our political reality, and becoming involved with immigrant rights organizations, has helped shape my artistic vision. I just couldn't turn my back anymore.

A former Border Patrol agent talks frankly about the daily harm inflicted upon immigrants by his former colleagues.

We desperately need to raise money in the next 24 hours for a lawyer to attend my husband's court hearing.

For Noheli, a Venezuelan woman who requested asylum, being bonded out and then welcomed into several volunteers’ homes made all the difference after spending four months in a California immigrant jail where she developed an infection.

Christina was with her husband when he was yanked off a bus for failing to produce his "papers." Then he was placed into a room with 20 other men and fed only a piece of bread, a slice of cheese, and water three times a day.

"I go to my bed with tears, disappointment and frustration." After a harrowing journey to reach the US and seek asylum, Salat Suraw Abdi has now been detained for over 28 months.