Sign this petition from Grassroots Leadership Source: Grassroots Leadership Originally published by Grassroots Leadership**on November 6, 2017: by Christina Parker A letter from inside a controversial detention center contains new reports of sexual assault and retaliation against women detained in an immigrant detention center near Austin. The T. Don
Adom, an asylum-seeker from Ghana, was detained for over a year in U.S. immigration detention and deported — without ever having a credible fear interview Photo Credit: Tina Shull This is Adom’s story, in letters sent from immigrant prisons in California, New Jersey, and Louisiana: I was put in
by Joseph Sorrentino Left: Isamel; Right: Ezequiel ### Ezequiel Ezequiel is a Honduran I met in 2012 in Hermanos en el Camino, the shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, where he was staying for a few days. He’d worked for several years in Florida as a housepainter before being deported and he
Sign and Share this Petition Photos provided by the Hernández family UPDATE from DreamActivist: Rosa Maria is getting released RIGHT NOW. Just hours before Congressman Joaquin Castro was scheduled to visit with her in detention we were informed that she would be getting released. The Trump administration wanted to use
Singer-Songwriter Miguel was the headliner at the #SchoolsNotPrisons Adelanto concert on October 20th. Photo Credit: Oswaldo Farias on Facebook From the California Endowment: The #SchoolsNotPrisons tour and community partners call for the closure of cruel and unjust immigrant prisons, beginning with the for-profit prison in Adelanto which is the largest
Please Contribute to his Urgent Legal Fees Fund Miguel Williamson was detained in immigration detention for years at the Etowah County Detention Center, among other facilities. In May 2014, Williamson suffered a massive heart attack that led to double kidney failure. Mr. Williamson was in the custody of Immigration and
When we got there and I saw the fences and guards, I was so scared and confused that I started crying again.
Muhammad, 30, is currently in immigration detention in California “Triton and Mermaid” by Carlos Espino. Photo Credit: Tina Shull My name is Muhammad.* I am thirty years old. For everyone there comes an incident that changes things. I also had an incident that changed my life. Now, I am far
by Nina Randazzo Read Mr. Joseph’s and others’ stories of prolonged detention at ProlongedDetentionStories.org. The case *Jennings v Rodriguez*, heard by the Supreme Court on October 3rd without a decision, may ultimately decide whether persons held in immigration detention are guaranteed due process. Currently, no such guarantee exists
