News & Commentary about Immigrants' Rights and Detention


Dec 22, 2016
All I Want for Christmas Is to Get Out of Immigration Detention

Dec 9, 2016
Obama Can Stop the Trump Administration From Targeting and Discriminating Against Muslim and Arab Immigrants

Nov 29, 2016
The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II Does Not Provide a Legal Cover for a Muslim Registry

Nov 28, 2016
After 50 Years as a Legal Immigrant, I Spent 18 Months in Immigration Detention Without a Bail Hearing

Nov 28, 2016
In America, No One — Including Immigrants — Should Be Locked Up Without Due Process of Law

Nov 22, 2016
My Mother Was Incarcerated in an Internment Camp as a Child. She Tells Us 2016 Reminds Her of 1942.

Nov 16, 2016
Victory: Federal Court Holds That the Government Can’t Lock Up Immigrants for Being Poor

Oct 24, 2016
The Government’s Out-of-Control Detention Practices Could Bail Out the Private Prison Industry

Oct 3, 2016
Homeland Security Must Stop Using Private Prisons for Immigration Detention. Here’s How to Do It.

Sep 21, 2016
Poverty Is Not a Crime, so Why Are People Being Trapped in Immigration Detention for Being Poor?