I'm Still Here: Notes from Executive Director

Sharing Voices from Detention

We can’t keep quiet

We’re launching this campaign for two reasons: 1) there’s work to be done! and 2) people need to know what’s happening in the shadows of our immigration system. For the last two years, Advocates for Immigrant Rights has been serving the immigrant community across the MidSouth. When the government started sending asylum seekers from the border to detention facilities in Louisiana, we shifted our focus to meet their needs for representation. There are so many people detained there, many of whom are desperate to get out of detention, but the system will not release them, either to their country of origin, or into the United States. They are in limbo and are suffering. We’ve been doing our best to provide representation to people who reach out to us, but sometimes the most we can do is offer to listen. We’ve heard the pleas of hundreds of detainees and we need you to hear them too. They are whispering “I’m still here”.

Listen to the voices of the people who came to this country in search of freedom but found themselves incarcerated. Help us to raise their voices and challenge their continued detention. Help us set them free!