Jorge* crossed the border from Mexico. He arrived in Arizona with a large group that planned to split up and head to different parts of the U.S. A Coyote took them to a house that was soon surrounded by ICE officers. ICE took them all directly to a detention
Eleven months ago Alexey Kharis went to DHS in San Francisco to receive the verdict on his appeal for political asylum. Then he was arrested and thrown into detention. (Part 1 of 2)Like many entrepreneurs in the Bay Area, 43-year-old Alexey Kharis had big dreams for a startup business
*Zeresenay Esmias Testfatsion fled his home country of Eritrea to seek asylum in the U.S., arriving in January 2017. Conditions in Eritrea are deplorable. In 2017, the U.N. recommended publicly that the President of Eritrea be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Zeresenay’s
My name is Maria*. I have been living in the U.S. for 14 years, but now I am in immigration detention in Illinois. It is painful and exhausting when you don’t have anyone’s support. Being incarcerated because of this country’s immigration laws can be terrifying, and
by Rachel Prandini, Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) Image Credit: John Moore/Getty Images Last week I spent the day at a “short-term” Customs & Border Protection (CBP) detention facility on the border in California. I was there to interview children who had recently been apprehended by CBP about
All I was asking for was to receive the proper medical care before it gets worse.
More here: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/correcting-record-recently-arrived-immigrants-show-their-hearings.
