by Olivia Segura Photo Credit: Hannah Rank, Medill News Service My name is Olivia Segura. I’m a Gold Star mother, US citizen, and mother of Ashley Sietsema. Ashley is a Veteran that paid the ultimate sacrifice. She shed her blood in Kuwait. Ashley was a paramedic who died when
Phal Sok has been doubly punished by our criminal justice and immigration detention systems. Read his story and watch a short film by the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance Phal Sok, 35, was taken into immigration custody after being paroled from a lengthy prison sentence. He is now out on
Sergio has lived in the United States for 40 years; now he needs our help to get out of immigration detention. As told by Emmie Ramirez Each time I visit someone in immigration detention, I’m given a name and number but have no clue how the person I’m
The Fernandez sisters with a photograph of their father. Mr. Fernandez was a legal permanent resident for 26 years before he was deported. CreditGregg Vigliotti for The New York Times. Listen to Jennifer Fernandez, a U.S. citizen, discuss her experience being a victim of a home raid by ICE.
“The Wall Separates Families, But Never Feelings” [**Humanizing Deportation**](http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/) now houses over 30 digital stories made this summer in Tijuana by people who have experienced deportation, with the assistance of a team of graduate students from UC Davis and Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This
Poetry by Alexandra La Golosa Photo Source “I have a lot of stories to tell, and I hope you will listen. But maybe I should tell these stories, if only for the sake of their heroes — my fellow immigrants in detention, still waiting for their freedom to come.” A Letter
by Alondra Pegueros Photo Credit: Tina Shull *My mother gave me a piece of advice that stuck with me. “Don’t forget where you come from.” I come from Mexico and I was raised in the United States. My whole life I have come across people who have more opportunities
by Jasmine Mendoza The Mendozas — Reunited in Mexico on July 12, 2014. My greatest fear was being a single parent. It came true on February 26, 2013, in the form of deportation. After nearly losing Claudio in the desert in an attempt to come home Father’s Day weekend after
Thomas was deported to his home country in Africa in April of 2017 after being in immigration detention for over three years Photo Credit: Tina Shull This is Part II of Thomas Dube’s story. Read Part I here Thomas was deported to his home country in Africa in April
