Thousands of people are detained and denied due process every day in the United State.
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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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Is the Tea Party’s racist rhetoric going to save broken families?

While it is difficult to find much coherence within the fractured and fast-changing Tea Party Movement, a look at their convention in Nashville last week shows that the issue of immigration seems to have gained greater popularity, emerging largely from the links made between immigration and the healthcare debate at their town hall meetings held … More »
2/8/10 | No Comments

Action Alert: Send a postcard to Congress

With the expectation that comprehensive immigration reform could soon be considered by Congress, it is important that supporters of reform make their voices heard on Capitol Hill. For this reason, the Justice for Immigrants Campaign has initiated a postcard campaign to urge Congress to pass reform legislation.
Send a postcard to Congress now. All you … More »
2/5/10 | No Comments

Hunger strike at immigration detention center still going strong at 2 weeks

It’s not the first time a hunger strike has hit the Port Isabel Detention Center in Southern Texas.
Within the growing momentum of inspiring actions across the country (culminating in a massive rally in Washington D.C. on March 21st) are a group of 70 detainees at Port Isabel who quietly began a hunger strike two … More »
2/4/10 | No Comments

Does discrimination have to play a part in keeping America safe?

In a response to the December 25th bomb attempt on Northwest flight 253 to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration announced a new screening policy that requires “enhanced screening” of passengers flying into the United States from 14 countries considered either “state sponsors of terror” or “countries of interest”. With the exception of Cuba, the rule … More »
2/4/10 | No Comments

Head of ICE John Morton speaks of promised changes for immigration detention

http://www.immigrationforum.org/blog/display/more-promised-change-for-immigration-detention/ More »
2/1/10 | 1 Comment
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Featured Allies

  • We need to have judicial discretion… discretion doesn’t guarantee that everyone will remain here but it does guarantee that everyone will have a fair hearing.

    — Judge Bruce Einhorn, retd.
    Immigration Judge

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

    — Mary Mele
    Pilgrimage

  • America has always prized how we treat people...and I think if most Americans understood what was happening, they would want it to stop immediately.

    — Karen Narasaki
    Asian American Justice Center

  • Deportation has been compared to the courts to banishment, exile. It's an extremely serious consequence that the immigrant judge has to decide.

    — Judge Dana Marks
    Immigration Judge

  • 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

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