Learn how to be a friend to those who are making the journey from a detention center to their end destination in the United States. Reception and hospitality include providing emotional and spiritual support as well as material support through food and supplies.
The government of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared in 2018 a “zero tolerance” policy on the border with Mexico before the growing arrival of undocumented immigrants, most of them from Central America. In July, the United States signed an immigration agreement with Guatemala and subsequently inked agreements with El Salvador and Honduras. US authorities said they also sought an understanding with Panama. Although the three governments reject that they are “safe third country” pacts — which would allow asylum seekers to be sent to another country to wait while their status is being processed — human rights associations claim the agreements do fall under that category.
Jesus Abad wins Latin America's top journalism prize after spending years documenting violence in his homeland. For a quarter of a century he has tried to show the consequences of the criminal acts of rebel fighters, the paramilitaries and the Colombian army that have left 220,000 people dead. His portraits perhaps best capture the pain of a war that despite its duration has very few defining images.
IRTF is in need of skilled individuals for a volunteer project we are working on called Bond Collective CLE, which collaborates with pro-bono and for-hire attorneys in Cleveland, helping to gather the materials for and compile packets for detained immigrants who are hoping to leave detention on bail. We would love to extend an invitation to attend an upcoming training we are putting on to expand our volunteer base in this area.
That Donald Trump has a disturbed relationship to reality is well known, but what emerges in a recently published book is a new climax of Donald Trump's fantasies of violence ...
