A painful and recurring question surfaces in immigrant communities: why are so many of the people working for ICE and Border Patrol and enforcing deportation, detention, and family separation Latino themselves?
Photojournalist Valerie Jean captured the faces of water protectors who gathered in Lansing to watch the Michigan Supreme Court hear arguments on Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 5 tunnel project. Activists have fought for years to get Line 5 shut down because it threatens the Great Lakes.
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal served alongside US troops in Afghanistan. He died at age 41 after ICE arrested him in front of his children and he had been in ICE custody only one day.
Diane Nilan, Author, homeless advocate, filmmaker and photographer of homeless families and children from her 20 year travels on US back roads, shares artistic images and stories from people speaking out for America's poor.
