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Covid-19 Guidelines

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Michelle Rutman

As we welcome guests who are leaving detention centers in Texas, California and elsewhere, it is important that we follow guidelines and protocols during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Because of close quarters and notoriously unsanitary conditions in detention centers, when asylum seekers are released, precautions need to be taken to protect the safety of guests, hosts, […]

Separated – Inside an American Tragedy

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Michelle Rutman

The book ‘Separated – Inside an American Tragedy’ written by Jacob Soboroff was just released today. The policy of separating children from their families became public in June 2018, but had been going on secretly for several months before. The devastating impact on the families who came to the US seeking asylum and the trauma […]