Transgender immigrant detainees face isolation in detention
The issue of prison rape is often belittled by standup comedians, but it’s really no laughing matter – especially if you’re a transgender woman locked up in an all-male facility.Grace Lawrence, 43, is...
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View ArticleTransgender immigrant detainees face isolation in detention
The issue of prison rape is often belittled by standup comedians, but its really no laughing matter especially if youre a transgender woman locked up in an all-male facility. Grace Lawrence, 43, is a...
View ArticleInside Richmond's Immigration Detention Center
Every month Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men and women arrested for or convicted of crimes -- as well...
View ArticleYour Call: Media coverage of immigration, the ICE raids, & resistance
On this week's media roundtable, we’ll discuss coverage of immigration and the recent ICE raids. More than 680 immigrants have been arrested across the country.
View ArticleYour Call: Public Education in the DeVos & Trump era
What will the next four years look like for public education? Betsy DeVos , the new Secretary of Education, has spent years successfully working to privatize education in Michigan, and Donald Trump's...
View ArticleHow one man ended up in jail for immigration charges after reporting a crime...
Even in sanctuary cities, undocumented immigrants aren’t always safe from being handed over to ICE agents. In fact, it's happened right here in the well-known sanctuary city of San Francisco.
View ArticleYour Call: How ICE has been emboldened in the Trump era
Since Donald Trump took office, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) says agents have made 43 percent more arrests this year compared to this time last year.
View ArticleYour Call's Media Roundtable: Net neutrality, the Alabama election & a...
This week, in a dramatic turnaround, voters in Alabama chose former prosecutor Doug Jones to be their next Senator. He become the first Democrat elected to the Senate in Alabama in 25 years. On this...
View ArticleICE empties Contra Costa detention center of detainees. Now what?
Nearly two hundred undocumented immigrants facing deportation for violating federal immigration laws were detained at West County Detention Center in Richmond, awaiting hearings to decide their fates....
View ArticleHow a trans woman’s death led to a $20 million claim against ICE
Johana Medina Leon’s family says she left El Salvador out of fear for her physical safety. She died of pneumonia about a month after US immigration officials took her into custody. Her family claims...
View ArticleMedia Roundtable: Gun violence drops in the Bay Area, migrant deaths & ICE...
On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss a recent report from The Guardian that found gun homicides nationwide have barely dropped, but in the Bay Area, a region scarred by...
View ArticleThe Recent MS ICE Raids & Big Ag's Exploitation of Immigrant Workers
On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the recent ICE raids in Mississippi. 680 immigrant workers were arrested across seven poultry processing plants owned by five major corporations, including...
View ArticleFrontline Gives Us Rare Access Inside A Migrant Detention Shelter For Babies...
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ‘Kids Caught in the Crackdown,’ a FRONTLINE documentary about the detention of children inside federally-funded migrant shelters.
View Article"Migrating To Prison" Is An Urgent Call To Abolish Immigration Prisons
On this edition of Your Call, we speak with law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about his new book Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants .
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