POEM: Fall to Get Up
This inspiring poem by Emitiel Prophet can be summed up in 3 words: Never. Give. Up.
This inspiring poem by Emitiel Prophet can be summed up in 3 words: Never. Give. Up.
"I could hear guards yelling at Victor ‘Eat! Eat!’"
A detained Muslim from Cuba writes to us of the multiple deprivations suffered by those detained at La Palma Correctional Center.
Beware: ICE endorses the practice of their agents falsely posing as police officers in order to gain access to homes, spread confusion and apprehend immigrants.
"...the Biden administration should urgently prioritize investigations into allegations of abuse within immigration detention, bias within the asylum court system, and the fate of people who sent back to danger in their home countries."
A Biden / Harris administration must live up to the principle that led to the outrage when family separation reached its peak — respecting the parent-child bond.
A detained Honduran woman who faced medical neglect has now tested positive for COVID.
195,000 immigrants were due to lose their TPS (Temporary Protected Status) rights in January. Eddy Laine writes about his hopes the program will be extended under the incoming administration.
28 children - toddlers, teenagers - and families who've been held in indefinite detention are at risk of being deported in 48 hours.