CIVIC is a national nonprofit that is working to end the U.S. immigration detention system. We believe the immigration detention system thrives on a culture of secrecy and censorship, compounded by the trauma inflicted upon communities who fear retaliation for speaking out against the system’s abuses. So we focus our organizing work on breaking down the barriers between people in immigration detention and the greater community, and empowering people in detention and their families with a platform to share their stories and concerns. Specifically, we provide a consistent weekly community presence inside 43 of the largest immigration detention facilities in the country, including here in California. We also operate a national hotline that receives over 14,000 calls per month from people in all 211 immigration detention facilities who are able to call us at no cost to them. Through these two windows into the detention system, we are able to track rights violations and other information to hold the government accountable. We then work with people in immigration detention and their families to use data and stories to educate the general public as well as legislators on how our tax dollars are funding a system that perpetrates human and civil rights violations. For example, We helped draft and CIVIC is the official co-sponsor of California’s SB 29, the Dignity Not Detention Act.
For more information:
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)
T: 385-212-4842 (385-21-CIVIC)
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Ending Isolation CIVIC envisions a country where no person is isolated in immigration detention. To realize this vision, people from all fields, religions …
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Information obtained thanks to the collaboration of:
“Abogado Gomez,” Kenneth Martinson,
Specialist in Workers’ Compensation, San Bruno
Phone / phone: 408-375-8135
Kennethmesq@msm.com