Detention Diary

Detention Diary

The story is there – or rather the lived experience is – but it has yet to take narrative form. My task as a volunteer “legal assistant” is to talk it through. To listen and to help the client shape her story so that it will be the right sort of story – to find the...
RAICES publishes report on Family Separation by the U.S. Government

RAICES publishes report on Family Separation by the U.S. Government

In 2018 the U.S. Government introduced the Zero Tolerance Policy and told border patrol officials to separate children and even babies from legal asylum seeker parents. RAICES has produced a documentary, The Fight, in which they follow the civil rights lawyers who...

Migrants resist systemic discrimination in for-profit detention centers…

Visitor to an ICE Detention Center Austin immigration and civil rights lawyer Virginia Raymond and retired law professor Elvia Arriola (Director for WOB) authored a critique of the for-profit detention system for immigration. Giant global companies like GeoGroup, Inc....
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