Demands Include Fair Bonds, Political Asylum, and Better Detention Conditions *For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017* Victorville, CA — A group of 9 detained asylum seekers launched a hunger strike in Adelanto Detention Center in Victorville, California, an immigration detention center run by the private prison corporation GEO Group to demand
The Adelanto Detention Center is run by GEO Group, Inc. Washington, DC — Immigrant rights organizations, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC), Detention Watch Network (DWN), and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Vicente Caceres-Maradiaga. Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, died last Wednesday
Listen to Episode 1 of a new podcast about people resisting deportation by Will Coley and the Immigrant Defense Project #### Episode 1: Land of the Free, but Only for Some: Eddy Arias remembers the night he was pulled over by the Houston Texas police. It was first time he had
This week, CIVIC is mourning the loss of two more people who died in immigration detention, Jean Carlos Jiménez-Joseph and Atulkumar Babubhai Patel. Both of these individuals died within 2 days of each other in Georgia. El Refugio, which is the CIVIC-affiliated visitation program at the Stewart Detention Center, was
by Madeline McClure Some demands of the hunger strikers, via NWDC Resistance. Source: Latino Rebels Hunger strikes continue into a third week at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center in Washington as detained migrants demand humane conditions amidst an environment of lies and retaliation. The strike began on April 10th during
As the death toll rises in detention, immigrant rights groups demand accountability and transparency #ShutDownAdelanto action honoring those who have died at the Adelanto Detention Facility, August 20, 2016. Photo credit: Tina Shull Washington, DC — Immigrant rights organizations Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC), Detention Watch Network (DWN)
Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba is the fifth person to die in immigration detention in 2017 Photo credit: Tina Shull CIVIC is calling for an independent investigation after a Nicaraguan man, Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba, 32, died while in U.S. immigration detention after months of incarceration at a privately-run detention center that
by Nicole Ramos Photo credit: Nicole Ramos There are too many. And that knowledge some days feels like it will break me. In the courtroom I sit sandwiched in the back row with my client, a wisp of boy, only 18 years , furiously bouncing his knee, a nervous tic that
The artwork of Bo Thai Statue of What (B) C(o)nscious is a project by artist Bo Thai that depicts a young immigrant’s journey to America through art. Each piece represents a stage of the journey, from arrival through immersion, discovery, self-definition, and finally, confronting global crisis with
