Child care centers exist to take care of children. The State of Texas requires most ...
conversations, presentations & such*
Social Justice Symposium, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, April 4, 2016 University of Illinois at ...
Use open-ended questions. YES, even in a detention center. YES, even when you’re in a ...
Sample simple Credible OR Reasonable Fear Interview Request A woman or child can give this ...
Adults who are in reinstatement proceedings, and therefore their kids who are with them, are ...
Why are we even talking about children and credible or reasonable fear interviews?? We don’t ...
By “passing,” we mean that an Asylum Officer had found that a person had demonstrated ...
We say that someone has “passed” her reasonable fear interview when she has convinced an ...
Expedited Removal is the process by which Customs & Border Protection (CBP) or Immigration Control ...
#EndFamilyDetention and “out”carceration
Detention of refugee women and children over the last thirteen or fourteen months at Artesia, ...
April 6, 2015 We mothers who are detained in Karnes County Residential Center began a ...
Request for Information Concerning Legal Visits
An open letter to: ICE Supervisory Detention & Deportation Officer Hilario Leal, ICE Assistant Field ...
Victoria Rossi is a brilliant writer who moonlights, for a lot less money than she ...
Texas Observer report on Karnes
Also check out this fine Texas Observer report on Karnes by Victoria Rossi, published on ...
New York Times: more essential reading about Artesia, Karnes, & Dilley
Do read "The Shame of America's Family Detention Camps", a fine article in the New ...
Women must speak out against the DHS no-release policy
In 2014, 60,000 women and children refugees fled persecution and violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, ...
“Ending Artesia” by Stephen Manning
Please read this stunning report Ending Artesia, by Stephen Manning. Explaining complicated, bizarre, technical legal ...
Resolution calling for release of women & children; end ICE’s no-release policy
Please read and sign this resolution and --- far more importantly -- take it to ...
GEO employee speaks AGAINST expansion of Karnes
UPDATE: The Karnes County Commissioners Court voted this week, 3-2, to approve the expansion of ...
Fuerza y Fianzas: a proposal for people to support families in a concrete way
The problem The Dilley ICE prison is about to open. There, families – up to ...
Credible fear interview
pink “tennis” swing to and fro. she’s wearing zebra stripes and a red top, tiny ...
Haiku for Dolorosa Street
You see me onscreen My name is an A number But I’m a woman - ...
“Arriving aliens” on a bridge to limbo
Adela Catalina* had plenty of reasons to leave. Forgive me being somewhat vague in the ...
Request for Credible Fear Interview for Salvadoran teenager
November 22, 2014 Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Services Houston Asylum Office ...
URGENT Stop deportation of Salvadoran refugee family
Dear friends, Maria Estela Marquez Marquez and her three daughters — Melissa (15 years old), ...
2400 dangerous mothers & children?
This morning -- Thursday, November 20 -- in Immigration Judge McPhaul's courtroom, as everyone waited ...
Call for release of all speakers of Mayan languages
The Honorable Jeh Johnson, Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528 The Honorable ...
Carta para tu familiar detenid@
DECLARACIÓN JURADA EN APOYO A LA SOLICITUD DE LIBERTAD CONDICIONAL DE (NOMBRE DEL DETENID@) Yo, ...
About private prisons
In a way, private prisons seem a relatively new development, but the ugly foundation of ...
Red McCombs should break the lease with the private prison corporation building for huge family prison in Dilley
A petition by Claudia Muñoz Dean Thomas W. Gilligan, ask UT alumnus Red McCombs to ...
Family Detention Film Screening
Friday, November 21, 2014 7:300 - 8:30 p.m. Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center ...
“Estamos detenidas en Karnes tenemos tres hijos…”
Until today, I was mostly getting phone calls from women in Karnes and from family ...
What you can do: Take a field trip to immigration court.
Want to understand what’s going on with refugees, immigrants, and immigration courts? Go. Take a ...
The credible fear of a mother and her little boy
Drawing by Rini Templeton, 1935-1986 I went to see three families yesterday in Karnes, and ...
How to Pay an Immigration Bond, from Andrade Legal of Boise, Idaho
Follow the link below for extremely useful information from Andrade Legal — Immigration Law in ...
The iceboxes in McAllen: personal testimony
"It’s a room in which there is nothing more than a toilet and some cement ...
Each of us has a duty to report child abuse or neglect
According to Texas law, “if you suspect the abuse or neglect of a child, it ...
Cartas de Melissa, Carmen, y Jackeline, encarceladas en Karnes City
Melissa, Carmen, and Jackeline are three sisters who, with their mother, fled El Salvador seeking ...
Support refugees – contribute to the Karnes Bond Fund
Make a donation to the Karnes Bond Fund, at Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education ...
“Power yields nothing without a demand”: Organize
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made ...
Carta para tu familiar detenid@: un ejemplo
DECLARACIÓN JURADA EN APOYO A LA SOLICITUD DE LIBERTAD CONDICIONAL DE (NOMBRE DEL DETENID@) Yo, ...
National Security Threat
Read the the material that ICE lawyers present in immigration court to support its argument ...
Help convince a court to set bond for a woman detained in Karnes
ICE and GEO, a private, for-profit corporation, are currently holding 500 refugee women and children ...
“Due process” for immigrants who are “detained”
I have the sickening feeling that very few people understand what “due process” translates into ...