by Lilly Fowler / August 27, 2019 . . . When awake, the children were told by guards, “Don’t touch me, I don’t want to get your diseases.” The guards threw food on the ground, prompting fights among hungry children. Children were never given toothbrushes or toothpaste and had limited showers and … [Read more...]
Support UUA Initiatives to “Close the Camps”
Through our coalition efforts we have shut down the detention camps in Tornillo and Carrizo Springs, TX, prevented Ft. Sill in Oklahoma from becoming a detention camp, and seen 1,500 youth released from the Homestead Florida camp. The fact that the Department of Health and Human services is now … [Read more...]
AG FERGUSON ARGUES COURT SHOULD FORCE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO STOP MISTREATING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jul 10 2019 Coalition of attorneys general file brief supporting restraining order against the Trump Administration OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today joined 19 other attorneys general in support of a lawsuit seeking to force the Trump Administration to … [Read more...]
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Federal Court for Pivotal Hearing on the Rights of Asylum Seekers
On June 28th, throughout the United States. The case we brought with our partners, Padilla v. ICE, began over one year ago when Yolany Padilla, a mother who was cruelly separated from her six-year-old son at the southern border, was denied a prompt bond hearing which would have allowed her the … [Read more...]
Carvan Asylum Seekers Video
Putting the human faces to the Caravan of Asylum Seekers. Take a few minutes to view the humanity, then pass it on. From Independent photojournalist, Linda Wolf Mexico City … [Read more...]
UUSC and the Honduran Caravan
I know our hearts have been heavy in recent days with so much difficult news: Pittsburg; attacks on birthright citizenship; and 5,000 troops sent to the border as if people seeking asylum were our biggest threat – while white supremacist violence takes lives. Many people have reached out to UUSC … [Read more...]