The sketches that appear here were collected from Helegner Tijera Moreno, a former Venezuelan army officer, who fled his country to seek asylum in the U.S. Instead, he has been detained for nearly two years at the Otero County Detention Center in New Mexico and denied parole.Helegner arrived
From the Border to Your Local County Detention CenterA 5-part photo essay series by Peg HunterPart 5: WEST COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY— RICHMOND, CALocal Sheriffs’ departments have financial incentives to contract with ICE to house immigrant detainees in County Detention Centers.The Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity has been holding monthly
My name is Cornelia S. Stark. I was born in Eschenbach, Germany. I came over to the States in 1973, at the age of three years old. I was brought over here by my mother. I’ve spent 45 years here.In 1989, when I was 18, I bounced bad
I am currently being detained at Dodge County Detention Facility in Juneau, WI. I have been detained here since April 18th, 2018. There is a lot that goes on here that I think people, media, even the news, need to know.Being in here you feel helpless, forgotten and you
By Stephanie SchenckMy visit yesterday at El Refugio at Stewart Detention Center was a hard one. I met with a man I’ll call José and he has been detained there for four months. I asked him what he would want people to know about the experience of being detained
From the Border to Your Local County Detention CenterA 5-part photo essay series by Peg HunterPart 3: ELOY DETENTION CENTEREloy Detention Center, located an hour north of Tucson in the Sonoran Desert, is one of many private prisons in the US used to incarcerate immigrants. Like other private prisons, Eloy
by Conner MartinezBachir Bah is a Guinean refugee that spent over eight months detained in a rural New Mexico detention center before receiving asylum.His journey to the United States began one night in December of 2016, when government officials came to his home and attempted to capture and imprison
From the Border to Your Local County Detention CenterA 5-part photo essay series by Peg HunterPart 2: U.S. DISTRICT COURT — TUCSON AZThe U.S. District Court in Tucson is one of several courts along the border where the U.S. government’s Operation Streamline operates. Through Operation Streamline, up
By Amilcar Valencia, Director, El RefugioRemembering Efrain Romero De La Rosa who died at Stewart more than a month ago.Efrain Romero De La Rosa, known to his loved ones as “Bin,” died on July 10th, at the age of 40, after being held in ICE custody at the Stewart
