by Michelle Rumbaut Photo Credit: R. W. Rynerson, 1965. Wikimedia Commons #### Starfish I arrive at the station at 1 p.m., fresh from the sanctuary house on Mission Street to fill my trunk with backpacks and sack lunches, and the administrative bag with my name badge identifying me as a
Demands Include Fair Bonds, Political Asylum, and Better Detention Conditions *For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017* Victorville, CA — A group of 9 detained asylum seekers launched a hunger strike in Adelanto Detention Center in Victorville, California, an immigration detention center run by the private prison corporation GEO Group to demand
Unwilling to return home, unable to continue their journey, thousands of Central Americans find themselves trapped in Mexico. by Joseph Sorrentino Rafts on the Rio Suchiate Jorge and Kevin, two friends, worked as a team on a bus in Ceiba, the third largest city in Honduras, Jorge driving and Kevin
The Adelanto Detention Center is run by GEO Group, Inc. Washington, DC — Immigrant rights organizations, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC), Detention Watch Network (DWN), and the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Vicente Caceres-Maradiaga. Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, died last Wednesday
TJ spent six years in U.S. immigration detention Photo Credit: Helgi Halldórsson; Wikimedia Commons *This is Part II of TJ’s story. Part I, in which TJ details the circumstances under which he fled his home country and his six years in detention, can be found here. “Give me
Poetry by Alexandra La Golosa Photo Credit: Tina Shull Poetic Contest by Alexandra La Golosa As any rhyming child since tender age I have been harnessed to go on stage By teacher of the literature. I really don’t know what she could see In me, back in the schooldays;
by Barbara Woshinsky Photo credit: Cardenas Law Firm It is a beautiful Saturday morning in March, one of those unexpected gifts sent to South Florida from the North: temperature in the 60’s, low humidity; a perfect day for walking on the beach. But instead of heading east to Biscayne
by Nicole Ramos Photo credit: Nicole Ramos We walk single file through the port-of-entry: 14 asylum seekers, 3 attorneys, and a cadre of human rights observers. A Mexican official, who never quite identifies himself, begins to take video of us as we walk, surveying us for a reason that I
Maria Ortiz Cortez was released after being detained for a year and a half at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA Maria with her children, Brandon and Marisela **UPDATE: CIVIC was able to help raise Maria’s bond, and on her birthday, June 9, 2017, she was released
