By Nina Randazzo Image Source: Nicki Padar at The California Aggie In October 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed State Senate Bill 54 into law. This law established a state-wide sanctuary policy. However, many Californians, including those directly affected by this bill because of their immigration status, may be confused about
Alfredo is in critical condition after being denied medical care at the Adelanto Detention Facility. Donate now to support his family! Karla holding a picture of Alfredo and his son Alfredo’s story as told here was relayed to New Voice Immigration Assistance Services by his wife, Karla. New Voice
Two women’s testimonies and a complaint with 27 signatures reveal a pattern of abusive conditions at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA Women being detained at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California, sent the above complaint to [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement](http:
Lawyers File Litigation Hold to Preserve DHS & ICE’s Sexual Assault and Abuse Records Source: CIVIC *For Immediate Release, November 7, 2017 Contact: Liz Martinez, (956) 572–4349, lmartinez@endisolation.org* **Lawyers File Litigation Hold to Preserve Sexual Assault Records of People in Immigration Detention** LOS ANGELES — Community Initiatives
Sign this petition from Grassroots Leadership Source: Grassroots Leadership Originally published by Grassroots Leadership**on November 6, 2017: by Christina Parker A letter from inside a controversial detention center contains new reports of sexual assault and retaliation against women detained in an immigrant detention center near Austin. The T. Don
Adom, an asylum-seeker from Ghana, was detained for over a year in U.S. immigration detention and deported — without ever having a credible fear interview Photo Credit: Tina Shull This is Adom’s story, in letters sent from immigrant prisons in California, New Jersey, and Louisiana: I was put in
by Joseph Sorrentino Left: Isamel; Right: Ezequiel ### Ezequiel Ezequiel is a Honduran I met in 2012 in Hermanos en el Camino, the shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, where he was staying for a few days. He’d worked for several years in Florida as a housepainter before being deported and he
Sign and Share this Petition Photos provided by the Hernández family UPDATE from DreamActivist: Rosa Maria is getting released RIGHT NOW. Just hours before Congressman Joaquin Castro was scheduled to visit with her in detention we were informed that she would be getting released. The Trump administration wanted to use
Singer-Songwriter Miguel was the headliner at the #SchoolsNotPrisons Adelanto concert on October 20th. Photo Credit: Oswaldo Farias on Facebook From the California Endowment: The #SchoolsNotPrisons tour and community partners call for the closure of cruel and unjust immigrant prisons, beginning with the for-profit prison in Adelanto which is the largest
