"I do my best to help other children who are sad," 12-year-old W says in his declaration. He and his 4-year-old brother were separated from their uncle after crossing the border.

"...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."

The family and Alexander himself have requested five times that he be paroled, but they have received two denials, each containing incorrect information. Other requests have gone unanswered.

Jarred Bean turns the spotlight of this series to working class immigrants, who bear the brunt of the racist targeting of our country's immigration system.

In addition to not being able to visit her father, Jennifer worries that her father is being refused his blood pressure medication.

Anthony Miranda wrote to us frequently about life at Northwest Detention Center, and his feelings of despair. Now deported, Anthony's poem conveys his emotional strength and determination to survive.