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We call for dignity, not detention!

Wed, 10/06/2010 - 12:03

From the Restore Fairness blog-


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One year on: Gitmo is still open and immigration detention is as bad as ever

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 14:29

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Nation reporter unmasks extraordinary rendition-like subfields run by Immigration

Sat, 12/26/2009 - 05:25

A couple months ago, Jacqueline Stevens, a reporter for the Nation, went on a road trip with Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen, born in North Carolina, who had been kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of his rightful identity documents, rendered stateless, and deported to Mexico, to re-locate the government offices that had temporarily held him.


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Esmeralda: A transgender asylum seeker speaks out against immigration detention

Wed, 11/11/2009 - 11:40
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Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope for change.


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