As Rogelio slept in his cold bunk bed at an immigrant prison in Georgia, a fellow detainee crawled under the covers in a bed next to him and exposed himself.
Terrorized, Rogelio lay still.聽聽聽聽聽聽
Fearing the man would attack him, Rogelio quietly slipped a piece of paper to a prison guard with the words 鈥渦rgent, please help鈥� written on it in Spanish.聽聽聽聽
The guard ignored him completely, Rogelio said. But the next night, it happened again.
As the immigrants stepped off a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bus to receive assistance from a local Arizona church, a woman stood on church property and began shouting 鈥�fuera鈥� (鈥済et out鈥� in Spanish) and 鈥渃riminals鈥� at them.
Last week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives聽wore yellow roses聽to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment in the lower chamber on May 21, 1919.
After another week of backbreaking, 12-hour days of raking pine straw and suckering tobacco in the hot sun, Esperanza awoke one night to the sound of Carlos, her boss, banging on the outside door of the dilapidated trailer she called home.
The 蜜桃传媒 and the American Civil Liberties Union of聽Louisiana filed suit today against the Trump administration for categorically denying release to hundreds of people who are languishing in immigration prisons after lawfully seeking asylum in the United States.
Under the Trump administration, parole approvals for asylum-seekers have dropped sharply, despite a still-applicable 2009 policy directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release asylum-seekers who lawfully present themselves at official ports of entry, establish their identity and...
