Tina Vasquez
@tinavasquez.bsky.social
Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | [email protected]
Many, many asylum seeking mothers from Central America launched hunger strikes at these facilities—and it’s not hard to understand why. Imagine being jailed alongside your child because you were forced to flee your home country to request asylum.
January 30, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Many, many asylum seeking mothers from Central America launched hunger strikes at these facilities—and it’s not hard to understand why. Imagine being jailed alongside your child because you were forced to flee your home country to request asylum.
Under the Obama administration alone, I encountered stories in which mothers were sexually assaulted near their children. Families were put in solitary. Asylum seekers were denied access to their attorneys. The food was moldy. There is a reason activists called family detention “baby jails.”
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Under the Obama administration alone, I encountered stories in which mothers were sexually assaulted near their children. Families were put in solitary. Asylum seekers were denied access to their attorneys. The food was moldy. There is a reason activists called family detention “baby jails.”
It’s delicious to do both!
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 AM
It’s delicious to do both!
I will always find it moving that people care enough to take to the streets.
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I will always find it moving that people care enough to take to the streets.
They never really explain how they arrive at these random ass numbers.
January 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
They never really explain how they arrive at these random ass numbers.