In addition to the trauma of detention, unaccompanied immigrant children face a dearth of legal resources - a problem Maria Woltjen of The Young Center was determined to solve.

“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.

Artist/poet Akiceri Carrillo's words express the fear and sorrow surrounding a loved one's deportation.

A Pennsylvania advocacy group decries the illegality of detaining immigrant families and demands that the state's governor to issue an Emergency Removal Order (ERO).

Clint and Homestead and all the invisible places like them violate one of the most fundamental compacts we make as human beings: that adults will look after children and ensure their safety.

"I was really watching children being separated from families and put into cold locked rooms."

"I never thought the U.S. would deport a veteran."

Alicia, who's currently in detention and separated from her children, expresses her grief and isolation in this poem.

Separating Families Is the Real Crime, by Christina Mansfield The Mansfield Family Reunited Across generations, my family knows the pain of separation. My mother Roberta surrendered her first-born child Josh for adoption in 1970. Every person with authority in her life convinced her that she could not have a child