CLAIHR blog articles about immigration and human rights.
Updates from the US-Mexico Border: A Week in the South Texas Family Residential Center
By Heather Cohen, CLAIHR Board Member
“Aren’t I human? Am I not the same as you?” my client asks.
She sits across the small, round table from me in the neon sweatsuit that marks her as an inmate of the South Texas Family Residential Center. Words do not seem enough, particularly when chosen in my second language. I want to reach across the table and take her hand to convey our shared humanity, but I cannot. Core Civic, the corporation that runs the jail, has decreed that we may never touch the thousands of women and children that the Dilley Pro Bono Project assists each year.
