“We want to make sure the kids in detention know that we haven’t forgotten about them.” - Kaia, 10 years old, who helped launch The Butterfly Project. Kids in workshops around the Bay area have fashioned about 20,000 butterflies to date.

Having exhausted all her options, her appeals denied, a young Angolan woman detained for over 2 years faces the terror of deportation.

In this poignant letter, Elfrega writes of feeling like a "captive bird" in detention, her despair at being caged, and her yearning for a safe nest to call home.

Detained for over 18 months, Balde now faces deportation back to Guinea. Here, he shares his despair and hopelessness.

A poem by Lisa Eve Cheby in response to the order from Attorney General Barr to not allow asylum seekers, even those who pass the credible fear test, to request a bond hearing.

"And I could only think about the little boy screaming my name, feeling scared, because they took me far away, handcuffed, in front of him."

"I am very sick. Sometimes I feel like I can't do it anymore. Now I'm set to be deported back to my country, where they will likely take my life away, but there's nothing left to do."

A Christian musician, FBM fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo after his father was during a January 2018 protest march in Kinshasa.

We desperately need to raise money in the next 24 hours for a lawyer to attend my husband's court hearing.