"...we were instructed to keep digging what was clearly intended to be our own graves." M's story details her horrific experiences in Cameroon before escaping to the US - where she was immediately sent to an immigration detention center.
KA writes to us of his feelings of despair, which have reached the point where he has given up and is ready to be deported to his home country of Ghana.
This young, recently-freed-from-detention Cameroonian man wants you to try his cooking - if he can just raise the money for his food truck.
"God bless all the women and men suffering in all corners of the world and I hope that my story will give hope and joy to those that need that in their lives."
"Her granddaughter was taken from her as an unaccompanied minor. She is 16, and now is likely in a detention center, a child’s prison, in the US."
"The hardest part of the waiting for K was the not knowing, the fear of missing something that would help her case to stand out. It felt like we were flailing most of the time."
"He’s resilient and positive. He’s done his time, and he needs to be pardoned.”
"Tratan o intentan golpearte, tratan provocarte, tratan humillarte más fuerte. Dicen que deberían estar muertes en tu país--cosas feas, cosas que no te imaginas."
"They try to beat you, to provoke you, to humiliate you. They tell you that you should die in your own country—horrible things, things that you could never imagine."
