A CIVIC Survey of Media Over Last 8 Years Finds Reporting on Immigration Detention Increasing, But Immigrant Voices Largely Silenced A vigil at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, October 2016. Photo credit: Tina Shull CIVIC Releases New Survey & Report, Launches Blog Featuring Authors Who Are Detained Feb. 14

The immigration detention system thrives on a culture of secrecy. Efforts to limit people in immigration detention’s access to the outside world are part and parcel of punitive models of incarceration. *(Setting aside the fact that immigration detention and deportation are considered civil, non-punitive, proceedings.)* But many advocates argue

Mayra, mother of three, was detained for over a year in Louisiana before being deported to El Salvador Mayra with each of her three children in Fayetteville, Arkansas, before being detained. *President-Elect Trump has announced that he intends to immediately deport two to three million immigrants with criminal records upon

Ahmed has been imprisoned in three detention centers in Florida since September of 2014 Adama, Ahmed’s hometown in Ethiophia. Photo credit: Joe Castleman (Gyrofrog) — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia. **Escape from Ethiopia** My name is Ahmed*, an Ethiopian citizen currently detained at Baker County Jail in Florida.

by Carl A. Braxton Photo Credit: Eileen Pace / TPR News I recently visited a man in immigration detention at the Theo Lacy Facility in the city of Orange, CA. I am a student in Professor Katie Dingeman-Cerda’s Sociology class “Deportation Nation” at Cal State Los Angeles. My visit was

After spending almost 2 years in immigration detention, Sayed Omargharib, 62, is now homeless Sayed Omargharib turned 62 years old this year, an age at which many are looking forward to a well-earned retirement after a lifetime of hard work. Instead, he is homeless. After being subjected to almost two

Video: Lora is a Famous Name in New York Immigration Courts Thanks to a case Alex Lora and his legal team at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) and New York University School of Law (NYU) brought to challenge his immigration detention, since 2015, all immigrants detained for six months in the

Image from 2016 documentary, Dear President Obama The President. The White House. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500. Subject: Plea for mercy and an end to immigrant detention and deportation Dear President Obama, During your time in office, thousands of men, women, and children have been held in

Gretta was detained in the Santa Ana City Jail’s transgender pod in 2015–6. This is some of her artwork from inside