16 Sep 2014
Artesia: 'Far Worse' Than Imagined
"Based on hundreds of interviews with these detained families that our expert lawyers have conducted, AILA has concluded that Artesia is a due process failure and a humanitarian disaster that cannot be fixed and must be closed immediately. Attorneys with long histories of representing clients at remote detention facilities have described Artesia as not just the worst situation they have ever encountered, but something far worse than anything they could have imagined." - AILA letters to President Obama and Members of Congress, Sept. 16, 2014.
See also: Artesia Betrays America: Part II, by Angela Williams, AILA Member and Artesia Volunteer, on the AILA Leadership Blog.