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Did You Know The Border Extends to the Beach?
Post by Bring Them Home- Washington State. Reportedly, hundreds of families who were unjustly deported or were forced to leave the U.S. are coming back home from South America, Central America and Mexico on March 10, 2014 through the San Read More …
Undocumented Activist Infiltrates El Paso Detention Center, Documents Rampant Abuse
Video Credit: The NIYA I don’t know how Santiago Garcia-Leco managed to get detained, given he is eligible for Barack Obama’s deferred action program. But inside the El Paso Detention Center, Santiago, a queer undocumented organizer, found hundreds of cases of Read More …
Emerging Issues for LGBT Immigrants, Asylees and Refugee Seekers CLE
I’ve been working on this for quite a while and will also have a practical comprehensive “know your rights” guide for everyone who attends the CLE, which focuses more on transgender issues. I worry that discourse around LGBT immigrants, refugee Read More …
The Archipelago of Detention
No crime means no police. What makes the presence and control of the police tolerable for the population, if not fear of the criminal? This institution of the police, which is so recent and so oppressive, is only justified by Read More …
Small But Important Victories for Asylum Seekers in the United States
So maybe I am preaching to the choir. Yet I cannot ignore the fact that two DREAMers (this term refers to undocumented students in the United States awaiting passage of the federal DREAM Act) made their grievances known about the Read More …