Talk of Immigration Reform Fuels Spike in Fraud Cases
By Maria Antonieta Mejia, New America Media REDWOOD CITY, Calif. —Cecilia, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, never anticipated that her life in the United States would turn into a real-world telenovela, the […]
Immigrants Launch Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center
By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Immigrants in a for-profit detention center in Conroe are refusing to eat to protest conditions at the facility. The protests in Texas follow a similar hunger […]
Prison Hunger Strike Puts Spotlights on Immigration Detention
By Alex Altman,TIME Eleven days ago, Paulino Ruiz stopped eating. After nine months at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., which houses immigration detainees awaiting deportation, Ruiz was sick of […]
How Immigration Advocacy Has Changed From A Washington Boys Club To A Gritty Girl Movement
By Angela Maria Kelley, Hispanically Speaking News I started my career over twenty years ago as a young immigration attorney in an under-funded community legal organization in Washington, D.C. representing refugees, […]