Rape victims in family detention threatened with criminal prosecution for reporting
Obama’s Family Detention Policy: Threaten Rape Victims With Criminal Prosecution As originally posted on Amjo Law ...
TAKE ACTION: Please sign! Child being sexually abused at Karnes “family detention” center
A family at the Karnes family prison needs public support! Children are being sexually abused and ICE ...
#EndFamilyDetention hashtag campaign goes international
This week, the internet saw photos from across the world with the #EndFamilyDetention hashtag go viral. ...
AUSTIN: “What if we were dead, could we leave then?” Oct 21 @ 7 p.m.
AUSTIN: Speak out to #EndFamilyDetention National week of action October 21, 2015 7-8:30 p.m. Room ...
Leaked recording: ICE Doctor in Charge of Family Detention Admits to Children Losing Weight
As originally published on Amoachi & Johnson On September 24, 2014, a meeting took place ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Julio Salgado, [email protected] Art Projects Manager, CultureStrike “VISIONS FROM THE INSIDE ...
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 ...
Letters from inside
The Letters From Inside archive is a digital collection of handwritten letters from mothers and ...
D.C. Federal Strikes Blow Against Mass Detention of Central American Families
A federal district court in Washington, D.C., today has granted a temporary injunction to the ...
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 ...
No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence
Zach Weissmueller | January 22, 2015 "When people knock on your door, and they are ...
Community response to the family detention center in New Mexico
These are some photos by photographer Gerard Escamilla of the unyielding community response to the family ...
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 ...
Miguel, 10
This place called a detention center is like a prison for us, because we don’t ...
Rebeca Paulina
For most people who have entered this place, it’s the start of a new life, ...
A drawing by Luis Ramon, a child inside the Karnes “family” prison
A visual testimony of life in Honduras by Luis Ramon, a young child inside the ...
Visual testimony of a child from Honduras
This is the visual testimony of a child from Honduras. "Revos locos" means the Mara ...
A letter from Angie, 15
"There are many things that happen in this place called Karnes County Residential Center. There ...
I-589 Spanish translation now available
A Spanish translation of the I-589 Application for Asylum and Withholding of Removal is now ...
Haiku for Dolorosa Street
You see me onscreen My name is an A number But I’m a woman - ...
Help Maria Estela and her 3 young daughters be released from detention at the Karnes “Family” Detention Center.
These three young girls are detained at the Karnes "Family" Detention Center with their mother ...
“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), ...
Dear Mr. President: about family detention
November 18, 2014 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC ...
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 ...
Announcing the launch of www.EndFamilyDetention.com!
We are pleased to announce the launch of www.EndFamilyDetention.com, a multilingual site aimed at addressing ...
Family Detention Backgrounder
Detention Watch Network (DWN) opposes family detention. The detention of families is inhumane. The United ...
Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration Courts FY 2009-2014
Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration Courts FY 2009-2014 Denial Rate Immigration Court Judge Decisions % Grants ...
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 ...
Trailer for New Film: The Return of Family Detention
Published on Nov 4, 2014 This new documentary chronicles the return of immigrant family detention ...
A goodbye letter from one teenage girl to another
A goodbye letter from one teenage girl to another. They met inside the Karnes "family ...
A letter from Melissa
Melissa and her sisters are imprisoned with their mother at the Karnes "family" prison near ...
A letter from Carmen
The letter below is from a young girl who is imprisoned with her mother and ...
A letter from Jackeline
The letter below is from a young girl inside the prison with their mother and young sisters. ...
The iceboxes in McAllen: personal testimony
"It’s a room in which there is nothing more than a toilet and some cement ...