While visiting Tijuana recently with a group of advocates, I spent an entire morning in Little Haiti. Consisting of a couple dozen ramshackle, half-built homes and trash-filled gullies, Little Haiti is nestled in an arid, desolate area known as Scorpion Canyon, accessible only by a one-lane dirt road. Nevertheless, the

“At Glades they are holding us not as immigrants, but detaining us as inmates. They are taking mothers from their children; that is wrong. I am legally here with a green card and they are trying to use my past felony charges to take me into custody and remove my

From the Border to Your Local County Detention CenterA 5-part photo essay series by Peg HunterPart 1: THE BORDER WALL — NOGALES, ARIZONA / SONORAFor 2 days in November, thousands come together at the Nogales border wall from locations across the U.S., Mexico and Central America. They share music, experiences and

July 01, 2018 To whom it may concern:This is a cry out for help from the people (or aliens, as we are called) at Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma, WA, spending the dark days of our lives.The prison is run a la modern slavery. The officers, who mainly are

I was born in a tucked away town called Malakal in South Sudan, on the west banks of the Nile. My mother was a school teacher who taught Arabic to primary school children and adults alike. She also worked as a lead coordinator of logistics for the United Nations and

The sketches and art featured below were collected over the past year from immigrants formerly detained at the Cibola County Detention Center in Grants, NM. They come to us courtesy of the Program for Access to Legal Services, which is a joint project between the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center

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. This is his wife Anna’s story. (Part 2 of 2) I met my Alexey in 2007 when I was in

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

*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