Alex Mensing reflects on supporting the #Adelanto8 and over 50 hunger strikers at the Adelanto Detention Center over the past month Members of the Viacrusis Refugee Caravan. Photo Credit: Alex Mensing [en español abajo] One month ago, on June 12th, nine brave Central American asylum seekers refused to eat the

by William Lopez Photo Credit: Celena Lopez On May 24th, 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a local Ann Arbor restaurant* next to the University of Michigan campus. ICE agents went in with a warrant for single man, but arrested three to five others, including a Legal Permanent Resident.

Katherine Weathers of the Etowah Visitation Project crafts quits for the daughters of a friend deported after four years in detention Luis Fernando Estela Gomez spent four years in immigration detention in New Jersey and Alabama. He came to the United States 22 years ago on a tourist visa, and

Photo Credit: Matthias Zomer, Pexels *We all try to do huge things to end detention, but this, I think, represents the essence of visitation:* Re: Nixon Dear Judge Opaciuch, I have visited with Nixon as part of a volunteer visitation service at Krome since July 2015. I was born on

8 detained asylum seekers, who were beaten and pepper-sprayed by guards as they began a hunger strike last Monday, have announced that they are re-launching their hunger strike today, Thursday, June 22nd, in the GEO Group-managed private prison Adelanto Detention Center. The asylum-seekers decided to resume the hunger strike after

Poetry by Ana M. Fores Tomayo The Border Fence Two years ago on World Refugee Day, I published a very personal essay about my status as a refugee child, back then, yet what it is like now for refugees and asylum seekers. Today, I publish my own poem — in its

by Michelle Rumbaut Photo Credit: R. W. Rynerson, 1965. Wikimedia Commons #### Starfish I arrive at the station at 1 p.m., fresh from the sanctuary house on Mission Street to fill my trunk with backpacks and sack lunches, and the administrative bag with my name badge identifying me as a

Demands Include Fair Bonds, Political Asylum, and Better Detention Conditions *For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017* Victorville, CA — A group of 9 detained asylum seekers launched a hunger strike in Adelanto Detention Center in Victorville, California, an immigration detention center run by the private prison corporation GEO Group to demand

Unwilling to return home, unable to continue their journey, thousands of Central Americans find themselves trapped in Mexico. by Joseph Sorrentino Rafts on the Rio Suchiate Jorge and Kevin, two friends, worked as a team on a bus in Ceiba, the third largest city in Honduras, Jorge driving and Kevin