Join Diane in Ending Deportations

Join Actress Diane Guerrero, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), and United We Dream (UWD) in calling for an end to deportations and immigrant detention.

What is immigrant detention?
It is jail and it affects hundreds of thousands every year.

34,000 People

Current quotas require that 34,000 people, including mothers, fathers, sisters, uncles, and grandparents, are detained each day.

Mental Health Implications

Many immigrants are isolated in detention for weeks, months, or even years.

Immigrant Detention is Jail

Immigrant detention is part of the country’s culture of incarceration. The U.S. leads the world in number of people incarcerated.

Prisons Profit Off of Detainees

Immigration detention means big profit for the prison industry.
As the private prison lobbying has increased, so has immigration
detention.

No Due Process

84% of immigrants in detention face deportation without an attorney.

Almost No Option For Bail

Many immigrants do not have a right to bail. Those that do, often can not afford it.

Over 300,000 people were deported in 2014. How do people end up in this deportation machine?

The majority of people are funneled into this deportation system because local police voluntarily cooperate with ICE.

Police may share addresses or other information with ICE, may give ICE a “heads up” that someone will be released, or may give ICE free reign in a jail.

Victims of crimes have come forward to report crime, only to eventually be turned over to ICE.

With black and brown communities being scared to trust law enforcement, cooperating with ICE sends the wrong message.

Immigration enforcement institutionalizes racism by encouraging police to go after someone simply because they “look undocumented”.

Meet some of the people this is happening to.

Deportation Case Pedro Angel

Pedro Angel Figueroa Zarceno
San Francisco, California

Pedro fled El Salvador 10 years ago to escape violence and has lived here ever since. In late November, Pedro, along with his U.S. Citizen fiancee, went to report their stolen car. Instead of helping him, the police department detained him, and the sheriff notified ICE, all because of a so-called “immigration warrant,” which is not legally enforceable. Pedro was then released only to be detained by Immigration officials outside the jail in front of his daughther. Pedro remains in immigrant detention.

Pastor Max Villatoro
Iowa

Pastor Max Villatoro is a pastor at First Mennonite Church who has lived in Iowa since he left his northern Honduran town in 1995 and arrived in the U.S. without legal permission. Deportation would separate him from his wife, a native of Mexico who was brought here when she was 8, and his four children, ages 7 through 15 and all U.S. citizens.

Isidro Macario
Boston

Isidro Macario fled a violent regime in Guatemala and has lived in the United States for a quarter of a century. In January of 2016 he was ordered to be deported. Macario applied to stay in the United States, but he lost his immigration case. And ultimately a Boston immigration judge ordered him to leave the country. This would separate him from his wife and his four sons; three whom are U.S. Citizens.


Over


300,000

immigrants were deported in 2014 alone.

Join Actress Diane Guerrero in calling for an end to deportations and immigrant detention

A Message from Diane


Actress Diane Guerrero, best known for her roles in “Jane the Virgin” and “Orange is the New Black,” is taking a public stance against politicians who are fueling intolerance with hate speech and rhetoric that target and criminalize the immigrant community.

Guerrero, whose parents were both deported when she was 14, tells her personal story in a video on behalf of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and United We Dream (UWD).

Learn more about United We Dream and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Special thanks to the video production crew, many of whom donated their time:

Paul Barrie - Director
John Kraus - Director of Photography
Jack Morris - Audio
Joe McKenzie - Gaffer
Gerardo Cabrera - Grip/Electric
Robin Graham - Makeup
Conchita Perales - Teleprompter
Kyle Garrett - Editor
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