Melanie Schikore
July 15, 2019
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Melanie Schikore
April 23, 2019
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As the Trump administration seeks to indefinitely detain asylum seekers and continues its rapid expansion of its immigration prison system, a new report from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) calls on the U.S. government to end the use of immigration detention and adopt community-based models already in …
Melanie Schikore
December 19, 2018
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In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with CNN that the Trump administration was considering a national policy to separate parents from their children to deter immigrants from crossing the border into the United States. The proposal triggered a backlash …
Melanie Schikore
April 12, 2018
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In March I received a phone call asking if Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants (ICDI) could provide housing for the Congolese mother and daughter who were separated at the border. In order for them to be reunited they needed to have a stable place …
Melanie Schikore
March 11, 2017
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Advocates and lawyers for immigrants facing imminent deportation are blaming officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a “disturbing” lack of transparency in the sudden move of the Chicago area’s processing point for those being forced from the country. See more here…
Melanie Schikore
February 17, 2017
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As the darkness of night comes to an end and the rose-pink glow of dawn starts to appear, nuns JoAnn and Pat wait in their dark car.
For most people, the rising of the sun brings the promise of a new day. But for the immigrants awaiting deportation inside the Broadview …
Melanie Schikore
April 6, 2016
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For Mercy Sr. JoAnn Persch, the words “family” and “detention center” are contradictions, a description that masks what the centers really are: jails.
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Melanie Schikore
February 16, 2016
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The Winter 2016 edition of the Loyola’s magazine features ICDI and Sister JoAnn Persch, RSM in the article “Carrying on the social justice legacy of the Salvadoran martyrs.” The article recounts the inaugural Martyrs’ Award presented to ICDI on November 16, 2015, including the monetary award of $25,000, for the …
Melanie Schikore
February 9, 2016
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Between a Detention Center and a Home of One’s Own
In Chicago, a few undocumented immigrants find shelter and work as they wait, sometimes years, for a court date.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
CHICAGO—Immigration detention centers here in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin are inundated. In three county jails …
Melanie Schikore
October 27, 2015
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