We have many challenges at @aldea_pjc. One day a woman was referred to our office. Her partner had “sent” for her from her country. When she arrived, instead of finding a new life full of possibilities, she encountered brutal violence in the hands of her partner, who had promised to love and care for her.

1/🚨BREAKING: @RAICESTEXAS, @Rapid_Defense and @aldea_pjc just filed lawsuit, O.M.G. v. Wolf, against DHS & DOJ demanding the immediate release of all families being held in family detention centers due to COVID-19 eminent risk.
This includes Karnes, Berks and Dilley Babyjail. 2/These organizations represent immigrant families who have sought protection from persecution and torture and who are detained civilly at these jails. The FRCs are the only immigration family detention centers in the United States.

When @DHSMcAleenan tries to sell an Immigration Babyjail as a “Gold Standard” think about what that means? It means indefinitely jailing children, for profit. It means traumatizing kids who are already traumatized. It means kids do not have freedom to play, to think, or to grow. We watched today as the Secretary described the detention of children as being “campus-like.” Its not. Its prison-like. You are not free to leave. You have no privacy. The purpose of detaining kids is to isolate them from people who love them and the people who can help them.