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Interested to learn what happens to Latina women and children in the immigration system?

This report is a must read.

Will shared some excerpts below...
Women described spending days in La Hielera, or the Ice Box
Women describe what it was like entering the Karnes detention center.

Don't believe people when they call it a shelter.
Women described how the information they were told changed every day:

“There we could only wait and nothing else, which caused us more despair, because at times they
call you to court and later they say it was postponed and will later tell you when, so more time.”
The report describes how the bond process works, what it's like to wear an ankle monitor, the mental health problems, and how service providers are overburdened.
It end w/some policy proposals:

1. Increase info-sharing and transparency around
immigration & asylum procedures
2. Expand bio-psycho-social support services for women & their children in detention
3. Increase workforce orientation & training in trauma,
violence & coercion
4. Improve awareness of and access to community social
services
5. Improve access to & funding support for low-cost &
pro bono legal service providers
6. Consider & implement alternatives to detention
& limit practices that criminalize asylum-seekers&
survivors of violence
7. Ensure that children are not separated from their
parents for the purposes of deterrence, resulting in
longer periods of detention for parents
8. Ensure access to asylum for immigrant victims fleeing
gender-based persecution

READ IT HERE nationallatinonetwork.org/images/Family_…
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