Trapped in a system marked by mistreatment and abuse, medical neglect, and the denial of due process, hundreds of people in U.S. immigration detention engage in hunger strikes as a means of protest each year.
With the indefinite postponement of U.S. immigration hearings due to COVID-19, asylum seekers face ever-lengthening periods of stay in Mexico, where many have experienced violence, trauma, and human rights abuses.
In New York City, one of the most egregious incidents against peaceful protestors and street medics occurred on June 4, 2020 in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx.
In early March, we traveled to the southern border in Texas to document how U.S. policies have trapped asylum seekers and other migrants in unsafe cities in Mexico. As an attorney and a physician who defend the right to asylum with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), we are deeply concerned about how the rapid spread […]
