Interview by Grace Gámez
Adrienne Kitcheyan and Tuesday Brauer are advocates for incarcerated women, drawing from their experiences after cumulatively spending more than a decade in prison in Arizona.
Family separation at the hands of the U.S. government is a national crisis. And the scale of this humanitarian disaster goes far beyond the southern border. With the Muslim ban in full effect and the Trump administration’s decision not to redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen and Somalia—despite the humanitarian crises in both countries—Muslims are also among the many families being torn apart by the Trump administration.
Projet de Renforcement de la Cohésion Sociale et de la Sécurité Communauteire.
For weeks, the headlines have been dominated by stories of children getting ripped away from their parents at the border. I, like so many others, was heartbroken to see images of families being torn apart, and to hear the audio of detained children crying.
Sandra lives in Silt with her husband, and three U.S. citizen children–ages 2, 13, and 18.
Rosa, a church secretary, has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years and cares for her parents, who are U.S. citizens.