“We’ve created a model policy.” Photo credit: Jan Meslin Last night, the Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution to make Santa Ana the first Sanctuary city in Orange County, California. It also voted to eventually terminate its contract with ICE to detain immigrants at the
Image from 2016 documentary, Dear President Obama The President. The White House. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500. Subject: Plea for mercy and an end to immigrant detention and deportation Dear President Obama, During your time in office, thousands of men, women, and children have been held in
by Ana M. Fores Tamayo Ternura, by Oswaldo Guayasamin © 1989 From [*Adjunct Justice*](http://adjunct-justice.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-justice-of-immigration-court-power.html): I went to an Immigration Merits Hearing at the Dallas Courts recently — the last hearing before an individual or family is deported or given asylum — and this young mother
Artwork by Marcela Castro We are disturbed and disheartened by the deep racial and cultural divisions that drove this election. We have seen remarkable levels of xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, and racism. To be clear, President-elect Donald Trump has declared war on immigrants and on the social justice movement as a
by Laura Dravenstott The Sparrow and the Hare, from Aesop’s Fables > “Some Eastern religions have called the correspondence between who you are and what you can make happen or what will happen *karma*. And Jesus said it this way: Do not judge, and you will not be judged, Do
September 30th marked the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Immigrant rights groups shine a light on the dark legacy of the 1996 laws and collectively challenge lawmakers to Fix ‘96. The #BringJoseBack campaign: http://act.presente.org/sign/billclintonjose?t=
by Namita Paul “A Higher Bond #2″ Pen and ink on paper I became aware of the social, political, physical, and psychological aspects of immigration detention during the course of a class called “Advanced Topics in Activism and Advocacy: Trans of Color Poetics” taught by Dr. micha cárdenas at the
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) is the national detention visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives to detention, and advocating for system change. Our visitation programs are mapped with the purple icons, http:
“Until We Are All Free” by Jess X Snow, http://www.untilweareallfree.com/people/2016/9/5/jess-x-chen Launched in 2015, [UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE](http://www.untilweareallfree.com/#about-us) is an unprecedented collaboration between [CultureStrike](http://www.culturestrike.org/), [Mobilize the Immigrant Vote](http://www.mivcalifornia.org/), and
