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Acknowledgments

Thank you to the talented and patient Iris Rodríguez Borsegui for designing this website. Silvia Nava Hale and Iris Rodríguez Borsegui smoothed out some of the rougher Spanish translations. Kenyatta Y. Dawson created the logo with its magical plant: half agave, half red yucca. Joseph Raymond Kolker and Louis Raymond Kolker loaned several of their […]

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Recent Posts

Construction at the ICE detention facility, 409 FM 1144, Karnes City, Texas. I was confused when the Karnes County Commissioners Court held hearings in December about whether to expand the Karnes facility, because this construction to expand the place had been going on for months. Photo by Virginia Raymond

September 2014: what happened at Karnes

September 3 DHS releases Nayeli Lisbeth Bermudez Beltran and her mother from Karnes, following an intense campaign led by their lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, and Grassroots Leadership   Neyeli is seven years old with a growing brain tumor. The Karnes pro bono team won’t know another family who will be released at the discretion of ICE — […]

What one of the prisoners wrote 21 August 2014 Karnes City

August 2014: about Karnes

ICE has “detained” peaceful refugees and immigrants, men, whom it has charged with violations of immigration law, at the low-security lock-up, the “Karnes Civil Detention Center,” at 409 FM 1144, Karnes City, Texas, 7811. The center is staffed by the for-profit prison corporation, the GEO group, and it was a GEO employee who’d confirmed for […]

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A warning at the Texas Capitol

Karnes City ICE lock-ups

The Department of Homeland Security’s “no-release” policy

Since June of 2014, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been refusing to set bond, or release on parole or on their own recognizance or under orders of supervision, the vast majority of the women and children who have arrived in the U.S. seeking refuge. ICE has argued that “national security” compelled it […]

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