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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 »

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Obama meets senators on immigration as undocumented dreamers come out of the shadows


My name is Nico and I’m undocumented. I’m coming out of the shadows because I am no longer afraid. I came to this country in 1992, following my mother to the land where the bread that would feed her children was. I have recently lost my mother to cancer, undoubtedly from the chemical factory … More »
3/11/10 | No Comments

Immigrant women defy odds on International Women’s Day


March is the month where International Women’s Day celebrates the strides women have made, in spite of all they have to endure. Like Rosa Morales, an immigrant woman who turned her life around and went from the brink of being deported, to being awarded a scholarship for her contribution to society.
Two years ago, … More »
3/10/10 | No Comments

Want to know what’s wrong with the War on Drugs?


It’s the first time that 1 in every 100 adult Americans is in prison, proof of an exploding prison system that our country can ill afford and a movement away from rehabilitation programs. Even more disturbing are the racial disparities within the prison system. More than 60% of people in prison are racial and … More »
3/9/10 | 1 Comment

Obama to meet with Schumer, Graham amidst calls for concrete action on immigration

Guest Blogger: Jackie Mahendra reposted from America’s Voice blog
Over the weekend, news broke that the President intends to meet with Senators Schumer and Graham this evening at the White House:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to focus attention on immigration next week by meeting at the White House with two senators crafting a … More »
3/8/10 | No Comments

Government abdicating responsibility on deaths in detention


No one doubts the immigration system is broken. But with the dilly dallying that seems to have enveloped any immigration reform legislation, families continue to be broken up and lives continue to be lost in the vast immigration detention and deportation network.
At a cost of $1.7 billion a year, the immigration detention system … More »
3/5/10 | No Comments
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Featured Allies

  • Any comprehensive immigration reform policy has to be one in which immigrants are treated fairly, humanely, and have access to our legal system.

    — Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard
    34th Congressional District of California

  • When the rights of any one person are violated, the rights of all of us are in jeopardy…that will quickly come back to haunt us.

    — Anthony Romero
    ACLU

  • One of the great things about our country is that the government also has to live within the rule of law, and everybody in America, under our constitution, is entitled to due process of law.

    — Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren
    16th Congressional District of California

  • It is time to restore fairness to a group of people being denied basic rights simply because they were born on a different patch of the Earth.

    — Kyle de Beausset
    Citizen Orange

  • "We undertook the Pilgrimage for Immigration Reform because the current situation is hurting our community on a local and national level."

    — Mary Mele
    Pilgrimage

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