Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Reflections”
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Newsletter | Fall 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 3 The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has awarded AI Justice a million dollar one year grant to expand direct legal representation services for Central American unaccompanied minor children after their release from government custody. This is part of a pilot program that targets children’s cases in eight immigration courts …
Newsletter | Fall 2014 Vol. 18, Issue No. 3 Did you know that an abuser can use their partner’s immigration status as a tool to exert further power and control in a violent relationship? Abusers may fail to file papers on their spouses’ behalf that would allow them to obtain legal status so that they can continue to abuse them. …
