“Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” their open letter states An impressive list of entertainers, physicians, educators, and advocacy organizations are among the notable figures to have joined forces to issue an open letter demanding the “immediate” closure of Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center,...
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This Women’s History Month, we’ve highlighted the story of immigrant rights advocate Jeanette Vizguerra, who was kept separated from her children and grandchildren for nine months after being abducted by ICE while on a break outside her Target store last March. She finally won her freedom in late last...
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“The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,” a judge wrote in ordering Liam’s freedom Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad Adrian Conejo Arias are finally free and back home in Minnesota where...
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The reimplementation of family detention by the Trump administration means more cruelty — and more money for private prisons The Trump administration is bringing back the detention of migrant families, a costly and unnecessary practice that has been condemned as “cruel and inhumane” by immigrant and human rights advocates...
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