by Ana M. Fores Tamayo Ternura, by Oswaldo Guayasamin © 1989 From [*Adjunct Justice*](http://adjunct-justice.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-justice-of-immigration-court-power.html): I went to an Immigration Merits Hearing at the Dallas Courts recently — the last hearing before an individual or family is deported or given asylum — and this young mother
Kapi is a loved member of the Huntington Beach community who has been wrongfully re-detained due to ICE’s negligence. Sign our petition to demand his immediate release and for his case to be closed! Our friend Kapi is a valued member of the Huntington Beach, community, and was unjustly
From October 26 to November 4, Detention Watch Network members and allies will mark the Latin American Holiday, Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, with national days of action to honor the lives of those who have died in immigration detention. From the Detention Watch Network: Stop
by Laura Dravenstott The Sparrow and the Hare, from Aesop’s Fables > “Some Eastern religions have called the correspondence between who you are and what you can make happen or what will happen *karma*. And Jesus said it this way: Do not judge, and you will not be judged, Do
After Carlos was released, he began working with community groups to advocate for people in detention. This is his poem and his story Carlos Hidalgo used the pseudonym “Libertad” or “Liberty” to communicate with the outside world while in detention Carlos Hidalgo was separated from his family and twice detained
Alexandra is a journalist, poet, and musician who was detained for 444 days at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona Aleksandra Gologuzova (Pen name/nickname Alexandra La Golosa) *Alexandra writes:* “I started to write in immigration detention because I did not have many things to do, and I needed to
September 30th marked the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Immigrant rights groups shine a light on the dark legacy of the 1996 laws and collectively challenge lawmakers to Fix ‘96. The #BringJoseBack campaign: http://act.presente.org/sign/billclintonjose?t=
by Namita Paul “A Higher Bond #2″ Pen and ink on paper I became aware of the social, political, physical, and psychological aspects of immigration detention during the course of a class called “Advanced Topics in Activism and Advocacy: Trans of Color Poetics” taught by Dr. micha cárdenas at the
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) is the national detention visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives to detention, and advocating for system change. Our visitation programs are mapped with the purple icons, http:
