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Andrea Vargas Andrea Vargas

Human beings don’t belong in cages

Yet Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) imprisons tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and other noncitizens every day, just because of their immigration status. These “civil detention” facilities dotted throughout the United States are notorious for their unsanitary conditions, rampant abuse, violent conduct, negligent and…

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Ariel Koren Ariel Koren

Pulaar speaker has been released after months of detention

We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
A.A. has been in detention for months. Respond Crisis Translation connected his attorney, Denisha Jones, with a Pulaar interpreter…

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