Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Our orientation with Al Otro Lado started with one of the volunteer organizers saying that the daily grind is like “flying a plane that is on fire and …
AI Justice Attorneys Reflect on Their Time at the Border: Day 2
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. We made it. We are here. We are safe. We have seen this post circulating on social media and thought it was an appropriate time to share. The …
AI Justice Attorneys Reflect on Their Time at the Border: Day 1
Adonia Simpson, Director of AI Justice’s Family Defense Program, and Jessica Shulruff Schneider, Director of AI Justice’s Detention Program, reflect on their experiences volunteering as legal service providers along the U.S.-Mexico border. It is 3:30 a.m. Miami time, and we just arrived to our hotel in Chula Vista, California, 7 miles from the Southern border. Looking at the map to …
AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF WORK AUTHORIZATION FOR HAITIAN TPS RECIPIENTS
July 20, 2018 Due to processing delays, USCIS has issued an automatic extension of work authorization to eligible Haitian TPS recipients for whom work authorization is set to expire Saturday, July 21 and who have not yet received their employment authorization document (EAD). For the nearly 5,000 Haitian TPS recipients affected by this delay, automatic work authorization will be extended …
ARE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF FROM DEPORTATION UNDER PEREIRA V. SESSIONS?
Call the Family Defense Program at 305-573-1106 or email [email protected] to learn more!
COURT ORDERS SEPARATED FAMILIES BE REUNIFIED IN 30 DAYS: 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
July 6,2018 1. The Trump Administration has been forcibly separating families since July 2017, regardless of their manner of entry. Upon separation, parents were moved to criminal custody or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, and children were designated as unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and placed in shelters scattered across the country, including Florida. Children that were separated from their …
THE FACTS BEHIND THE HEADLINES: FAMILY SEPARATION
Upon arrival at the border, Pedro, an 8-year-old indigenous Guatemalan child, witnessed several immigration officers throwing his father to the ground and assaulting him. When Pedro screamed at the officers to stop, he was ripped away from his father without explanation. Pedro cries when recalling the incident and still has no idea where his father is. His AI Justice attorney …
CUFFS TOO TIGHT: THE SHACKLING AND EVACUATION OF DETAINED IMMIGRANTS DURING HURRICANE IRMA
Dec. 5, 2017 By: Lily Hartmann, AI Justice Jonathan Demme Human Rights Advocate Masiel, a Costa Rican native and victim of gender-based violence, is waiting out her remaining time in the United States at the Broward Transitional Center (BTC), an immigration detention center in South Florida. She’s agreed to voluntary departure, but her deportation flight won’t be her first experience …
A DAY IN IMMIGRATION COURT
October 27, 2017 By: Lily Hartmann, AI Justice Jonathan Demme Human Rights Advocate I came to AI Justice in early September from Providence, RI, where I worked with refugee community leaders and other stakeholders to support refugee families who had already been given the right to protection here while in their home countries or refugee camps. But the situation for …
REFLECTION ON “BUILDING THE WALL” AND DISCUSSION BETWEEN CHERYL LITTLE AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
October 6, 2017 By: Lily Hartmann, AI Justice Jonathan Demme Human Rights Advocate “Who would want to come to the U.S. now?” asks Rick, a convicted former private prison manager, in his final line of playwright Robert Schenkkan’s BUILDING THE WALL. The play tells the story of an overcrowded Texas immigration detention center where a private prison company prioritizes its …