It's fairly uncommon for a white Canadian woman to be arrested and detained by ICE. That's what happened to Connie*, a Toronto resident who overstayed her visa in Arizona, and her 295-day experience in detention during the Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy was eye-opening. “First of all, you can't access anything when you are in Eloy [Detention Center] in my experience, even if you did have money for the phone system and the stamp system, it's so slow and so laborious,” Connie shares. “And for those folks [non-English speakers] there's just no way that they could ever be held to the standard that we're trying to hold them to when it comes to pleading their cases for their lives.” She observed serious discrimination toward non-English speaking immigrants, particularly against Indigenous women, who were set up for failure in an asylum system fraught with inequities. She tried to help by translating their forms and encouraged them not to sign documents they did not understand after some were misled to sign voluntary departure orders, triggering their deportations, Visit https://lnkd.in/gfJczE_5 to listen to Connie tell her story. “DETAINED” is an oral history project by the Florence Project, faculty members from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, and Salvavision. It strives to make the human impact of this system accountable and available to diverse audiences through an online open-source archive. By centering and amplifying the voices of people who have experienced immigration detention, this project seeks to ensure that the stark realities of immigration detention are recorded and will be remembered. *Pseudonym
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