This incarceration of dads “renders thousands of children w/out their father’s care every day, not just on Father’s Day. Detained men’s grief, due to forced separation from their work and from their families, is amplified by the maddening uncertainty of not knowing when or if they will be released.”
“Immigrant men, especially Latino immigrant men, concentrate in outdoor jobs that make them visible and vulnerable targets for ICE raids: commercial and home construction, roofers, street repair, drivers, landscapers, day laborers, agricultural workers.”
Gabe Ortíz
Gabe Ortíz
“The Angolan man says he and his wife have told their 5-year old child that their dad is away working, not in prison. Squeezing his eyes shut, he mimicks his son’s questions on the phone, ‘Daddy when are you coming home? I miss you.’” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/prid...
Gabe Ortíz
www.newsfromthestates.com
The man wept silently, shutting his eyes and leaning against the wall as we spoke with him in the visitors’ room of a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. He had decided to re...
