Restore Fairness
“Restore Fairness” produced by Breakthrough in association with 26 leading organizations, calls for the U.S. government to bring back due process and fairness to the immigration system. The video features the powerful voices of Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard, Judges Dana Marks, Bruce Einhorn, civil society leaders Anthony Romero, Donald Kerwin, Karen Narasaki and … More »
Esmeralda: A Transgender Detainee Speaks Out
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 … More »
Live From Jail
Breakthrough was given rare access behind the walls of an immigrant detention center and met several long time residents who face exile from the U.S. As one named Monica says, “I see when I’ve gone to court… the judge, he seems like he wants to rule in my favor but he can’t because his hands … More »
Juana Villegas: A Pregnant Woman Detained
Juana Villegas was 9 months pregnant and never pictured herself as a mom-to-be behind bars. She was taken in for a routine traffic violation that is normally taken care of by a simple citation. This violation (of which she was later cleared) was handled by immigration authorized local police and she was locked up in … More »






