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After grueling family separation, father鈥檚 prayers answered

July 17, 2019

When Samuel called his family from the immigrant prison nearly six hours away from his home in South Carolina, his 8-year-old son was angry.

鈥淧apa, are you going to come home?鈥� Angel asked his father, who was calling from Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. 鈥淚 want to be with you, in the center.鈥�

Samuel told his son he would return home soon. But he didn鈥檛 know if he could keep his promise.

鈥淚 was always afraid I would be deported,鈥� he said in Spanish during a recent interview. 鈥淚 never knew if I was staying or being deported back to Honduras.鈥澛犅犅犅�

Detained asylum seeker abused, denied medical treatment in immigrant prison

June 04, 2019

As Rogelio slept in his cold bunk bed at an immigrant prison in Georgia, a fellow detainee crawled under the covers in a bed next to him and exposed himself.

Terrorized, Rogelio lay still.聽聽聽聽聽聽

Fearing the man would attack him, Rogelio quietly slipped a piece of paper to a prison guard with the words 鈥渦rgent, please help鈥� written on it in Spanish.聽聽聽聽

The guard ignored him completely, Rogelio said. But the next night, it happened again.

Moving violation costs immigrant 18 months of freedom

April 19, 2019

On a breezy day in Manchester, New Hampshire, Mateo and his wife, Lisa, decided to run an errand.

As the couple rode down an interstate highway on July 31, 2017, they came upon a police vehicle on the shoulder with its lights flashing.

Under New Hampshire traffic laws, drivers must slow to a safe speed and 鈥溾�� to stationary emergency vehicles with flashing lights.

But Mateo, 36, did not know this.

Healing the open wounds of injustice in Stewart County, Georgia

April 16, 2019

On the stretch of highway careening south from Columbus to Lumpkin, patches of Georgia red clay lie like open sores on the road鈥檚 shoulder. The sun burns bright orange, through air that is hazy with pollen and smoke from controlled forest fires.

The land here was once valuable. It was coveted. Nearly 200 years ago, white men named this county Stewart, after a revolutionary war militia general. White men massacred the men, women and children of the Creek Confederacy over this land.

Luchando por su libertad 鈥� y su vida

April 08, 2019

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Tras huir de la persecuci贸n en Cuba, Yerandy Valdes Ruiz fue r谩pidamente encarcelado en el Centro de Procesamiento del Servicio de Control de Inmigraci贸n y Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en ingl茅s) en Pine Prairie en mayo de 2018. Durante m谩s de ocho meses, fue privado de la atenci贸n m茅dica que necesitaba para seguir vivo.

En dolor cr贸nico, un hombre sufre en el 鈥渋nfierno鈥�

April 08, 2019

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Durante una tarde fresca en Cuba, la polic铆a entr贸 a la fuerza a la casa de Rodrigo y lo atacaron brutalmente con bastones - golpe谩ndolo en el est贸mago, los hombros y la espalda. Cay贸 al suelo y rodaba del dolor. Escuchaba mientras la polic铆a le advert铆a que lo iban a 鈥渄esaparecer鈥�. Despu茅s s贸lo mir贸 como se escabull铆an entre la noche.

La prisi贸n de inmigrantes 鈥榲olvi茅ndolo loco鈥�

April 08, 2019

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Mientras Jos茅 Antonio Hern谩ndez Viera se desped铆a de su hija de 6 a帽os en Cuba, estaba angustiado. Ella padece de c谩ncer terminal del cerebro, y necesita su cuidado emocional y financiero.

Pero Viera no ten铆a otra opci贸n. La persecuci贸n pol铆tica que enfrentaba hab铆a alcanzado su punto m谩s grave, y 茅l morir铆a si 茅l se quedara en su pa铆s de origen, dejando a su hija sin padre.

Encarcelado despu茅s de tormento y desenga帽o

April 08, 2019

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Dos oficiales cubanos irrumpieron en la casa de Brayan Lazaro Rodriguez Rodriguez, lo esposaron, y lo empujaron al piso. Lo golpearon en la cara con sus bastones, y quebraron uno de sus dientes. Lo ficharon de 鈥渃riminal鈥�, y lo encerraron en una prisi贸n cercana.

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