Stories from the work.
Stories from the families and the weeks behind the numbers. Each one lives on Substack, which can show it in your language.
Recent stories.
What they can’t take from us with an executive order
A child walks into a courtroom alone. A reflection on what is left of due process when the pressure comes from above.
Read the story →The decisions no family should have to make
The impossible questions parents are asking right now, and how a community holds them.
Read the story →A few hours’ notice
A young person leaves a detention center alone. A story about who is standing at the door.
Read the story →Displaced within their own rights: the distance between the law and the door
An eight-year-old who wants to be a doctor, and a family living a migration process with fear.
Read the story →The crime they never committed
A conversation that happens again and again: people who have done nothing wrong, and are afraid anyway.
Read the story →For those who go to court carrying hope in their pockets
Late-night calls, a hearing tomorrow, and what it means to be someone’s last resort.
Read the story →Sowing dignity
Exhaustion, urgency, and the personal origin of this work.
Read the story →When fear starts to look like the place many fled
An honest confession: yes, I am afraid, and why saying so matters.
Read the story →These accounts come from the work itself.
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