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
[Español abajo] On July 20, over fifteen LGBT migrant youth embarked on the “First Trans Gay Migrant Caravan 2017” from Central America through Mexico. They plan to present themselves at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, to seek political asylum in the United States. From a press conference
by jamila hammami *In a series of tweets this week, President Trump announced he will *[*re-institute a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military*](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/trump-military-transgender-ban-joint-chiefs/index.html)*, because they cause a burden of “tremendous medical costs and disruptions.”* Jamila
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 Jan Meslin Art on the border wall in Playas Tijuana, Mexico. “Standing on the Side of Love” is an advocacy campaign against all forms of oppression by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Photo Credit: Tina Shull I just got a call from the Pine Prairie Detention Center in Pine Prairie,
A project of the Northwest Detention Center Resistance Artwork: NWDC Resistance [Español abajo] The Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, WA, is one of the largest immigration prisons in the country, with the capacity to hold up to 1,575 people. On Friday, March 7, 2014, over one thousand people
written by Tina Shull CIVIC’s weekly spotlight on crimes committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This week’s crime: Propaganda The mis-conception that immigration poses various threats to the United States is prevalent throughout U.S. history, as shown in this anti-immigration political cartoon from 1919. “Close the Gate,
Immigrant rights advocates are torn over whether to embrace the bill, call for solidarity Image Credit: California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance On Thursday, July 19, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) re-introduced a bipartisan DREAM Act bill at a press conference in Washington, D.C. Senators Chuck Schumer
