“The Wall Separates Families, But Never Feelings” [**Humanizing Deportation**](http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/) now houses over 30 digital stories made this summer in Tijuana by people who have experienced deportation, with the assistance of a team of graduate students from UC Davis and Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This
Poetry by Alexandra La Golosa Photo Source “I have a lot of stories to tell, and I hope you will listen. But maybe I should tell these stories, if only for the sake of their heroes — my fellow immigrants in detention, still waiting for their freedom to come.” A Letter
Immigrant Defense Project #stopICEcold Toolkit From the Immigrant Defense Project: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests, the product of IDP’s and CCR’s collective work against ICE arrests under Bush and Obama, serves as the first comprehensive guide and organizing resource to fight back against the Trump administration’
Share these Bond Campaigns Victor Perez (left) with his sister Valeria. Amazing news: With your help, CIVIC’s campaign to free Victor Perez, 23, has been a success!! He was released this week after spending over 3.5 years at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California and reunited with his
by Alondra Pegueros Photo Credit: Tina Shull *My mother gave me a piece of advice that stuck with me. “Don’t forget where you come from.” I come from Mexico and I was raised in the United States. My whole life I have come across people who have more opportunities
[Español abajo] On July 20, over fifteen LGBT migrant youth embarked on the “First Trans Gay Migrant Caravan 2017” from Central America through Mexico. They plan to present themselves at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, to seek political asylum in the United States. From a press conference
by jamila hammami *In a series of tweets this week, President Trump announced he will *[*re-institute a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military*](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/trump-military-transgender-ban-joint-chiefs/index.html)*, because they cause a burden of “tremendous medical costs and disruptions.”* Jamila
Poetry by Maria Ibarra-Frayre Photo Credit: Tina Shull #### **Papers?** I have thousands of them, Tucked in and out of notebooks, Detailing the coldness of shackles Around your ankles, And handcuffs tied to swollen wrists Papers, salty with children’s tears And sweat of fathers and mothers gripping tightly To tiny
by Jan Meslin Art on the border wall in Playas Tijuana, Mexico. “Standing on the Side of Love” is an advocacy campaign against all forms of oppression by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Photo Credit: Tina Shull I just got a call from the Pine Prairie Detention Center in Pine Prairie,
