- In recent weeks there has been a spotlight on the horrors of the Administration’s forcible separation of children from their parents at the border. In taking these children away from their parents, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials render the kids “unaccompanied”. As a…
- This is what Olga told CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° today from the San Diego prison where she has been held for weeks: My kids have never been separated from me. My son told me on the phone he misses me, and when am I going to be with him again. I told him I didn’t know. National Immigrant…
- Graciela* has survived what most people fear. She lost her brother, her only family member in the United States, to an automobile accident and survived a physically, mentally, and economically abusive relationship. Domestic violence has a lasting effect on survivors — especially the type of abuse…
- “I feel peace. … I want women who came here from my country to know that they are not kitchen utensils.” — NIJC client who won asylum after fleeing 16 years of beatings and sexual assault by her husband in Honduras, speaking to The Marshall Project about her fear that others like her will no…
- Linda* wants other women to know that they have rights. Mony Ruiz-Velasco, NIJC Leadership Board member and executive director of PASO-West Suburban Action Project and Itedal Shalabi, executive director of Arab American Family Services, advocate in Springfield for the VOICES Act.A survivor of…
- Even as Congress voted last month to spend billions of tax dollars to extend the southern border wall and expand the immigration prison system, some members understood that Americans have a right to know how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending our money and seized the opportunity…
- The Indiana General Assembly has an opportunity to do something constructive, and practical, on an issue that has languished in Washington D.C.: pass legislation that recognizes the presence, humanity and contributions of those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status. DACA was…
- Here is what we’ve learned from it, and a link for you to study the data yourself. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is notoriously obscure about the systems it uses to detain immigrants in the United States. Without a court order, it is rare that DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
- Art by AmplifierAll she wanted was a chance to prove to the judge she was turning her life around. Days before Christmas, a 24-year-old Kentucky-raised mother named Estrella* sat in a detention center, awaiting deportation. After months of being locked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs…
- Photo: PixabayThiago* is 17 years old, he loves soccer and astronomy, and is waiting for his college admission letters. He is a typical American teenager, but his journey to get here was not. Thiago fled to the United States alone at the age of 14 to escape gang violence in Honduras. He is most…