This month’s speaker will be Christina Fialho (CA attorney, Co-Founder/Exec. Dir. of CIVIC)
Every day men and women are detained by the U.S. government in county jails and for-profit prisons because they lack papers. Ana, a human trafficking victim, was held for over a year, locked in solitary confinement and forced by a guard to sleep on the cement floor of her cell.
Over 32,000 immigrants like Ana remain isolated in remote detention facilities today because no law protects a right to visitation, phone calls can cost up to $5 per minute and 46% of detained immigrants are transferred at least twice — often out of state and far away from their families.
CIVIC is setting in motion a national movement to combat the isolating experience of immigration detention by building and strengthening community visitation programs.
The event starts at 11:00 AM (social time). Program begins at 11:30 AM
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