In addition to the trauma of detention, unaccompanied immigrant children face a dearth of legal resources - a problem Maria Woltjen of The Young Center was determined to solve.
“We want to make sure the kids in detention know that we haven’t forgotten about them.” - Kaia, 10 years old, who helped launch The Butterfly Project. Kids in workshops around the Bay area have fashioned about 20,000 butterflies to date.
Roberta and Dick Dunning's visits to a Baltimore detention facility has touched them - and those they visit - deeply.
"The day prior, when we sat near a 7-year old child, his eyes – like almost every immigrant I met at the shelter – were red with exhaustion."
Today's headlines decrying the dehumanizing conditions at immigration centers remind many Japanese Americans of the suffering their families endured in WWII internment camps.
"Reports from people who have been detained at Adelanto are no less heartbreaking and dramatic than those dramatized by Orange Is the New Black. Suicide attempts are common, according to detainees, and an ICE inspector found 15 nooses on a visit in 2018."
By persuading two major pension funds to divest their holdings in CoreCivic and GEO Group, Ms. Goldman aims to shrink financial support for the for-profit prison industry.
Two OITNB cast members recently visited Hudson County Correctional Facility with FFI's Dania Darwish. Here, Dania talks about that visit - and her experiences visiting Hudson.
Two Berkeley professors created a sensation by building a seesaw that connects children at the US/Mexico border.
