Tania Romero’s case highlights the senseless cruelty of immigration detention as a default policy—and her son and his classmates are providing a model for how to respond
An advocate for immigrant children and families, Frida Espinosa Cardenas offers critical advice for navigating the complexities faced by parents separated from their children.
"Desperate to reunite with their loved ones, some family members fall victim to predatory bail bond companies that exploit vulnerable persons for cash."
"Our system of mass immigration detention functions as torture. It must be abolished."
A young, mentally disabled girl who posted a threat on Facebook faces indefinite detainment - and possible deportation - after a notoriously harsh immigration judge repeatedly denies her appeals for bail.
Waiting in Tijuana for his court hearing in 4 days, Jonathan Rayo Lopez is one of thousands of Nicaraguan asylum seekers fleeing their government's brutal regime.
On average, 2,371 were being held in immigration detention in 1979. That number has skyrocketed to to more than 52,000 in September of this year. Here's a recap of the history of immigration detention from a new report by the Marshall Project.
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.
