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New NIJC Report Calls On U.S. Government To Implement Community-Based Programming, Abandon Harmful And Costly Immigration Detention
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 …
The Battle to Stop Family Separation
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 …
Congolese mother and daughter reunited
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 …
Immigration agency criticized for sudden move of deportation site to Kankakee
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…
Gary airport used to deport immigrants
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 …
Detention centers’ applications for child care licenses worry immigrant advocates
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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ICDI featured in the Magazine of Loyola University Chicago
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 …
The Atlantic Magazine Features ICDI
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 …
Students pray, show compassion for immigrants about to be deported
“Not even Immigration and Customs Enforcement can stop two Chicago-area nuns bent on bringing humanity to system”
Woodstock, Ill.—This time, Astrid Morataya asks for a map of the world.
Dressed in a orange prison jumpsuit, Morataya, who has been in McHenry County Jail for 14 months in the midst of ongoing deportation proceedings, tells the volunteer sitting across from her in the prison library that many of the …
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