Introduction
BUILDING BRIDGES INSTEAD OF WALLS AND JAILS
Immigrants and asylum-seekers have faced an unending series of attacks over the last few years, as the Trump administration has sought to scapegoat and exclude them at every turn. From excluding, traumatizing, and criminalizing people seeking safety at the U.S.-Mexico border to jailing immigrants and asylum-seekers in facilities that are tinderboxes for the spread of COVID-19, U.S. asylum and detention policies have violated human rights and exacted tremendous human costs.
