Immigrants and workers take to the streets today to demand justice and respect for human rights of our neighbors, families, classmates, and coworkers.

In this video, a refugee woman talks about her efforts to access medical care during nearly two years of detention in a county jail under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The federal government has admitted that its negligence was responsible for the death of an illegal immigrant who pleaded during 11 months in custody for treatment for a condition that proved to be terminal penile cancer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today.

Federal Judge Richard Posner described administrative law judges who serve in the immigration courts as ill-trained and insufficient in number during a speech to the Chicago Bar Association this week.

The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights has created an excellent short video explaining why the U.S. immigrant detention system violates basic American values, and what you can do to help change it.

"It was not just our Hispanic children who were upset ... It was all the children. It affected the whole school," an elementary school principal told The Dallas Morning News.

For immigrants facing deportation, finding a lawyer is only part of the battle. Finding a lawyer who knows the immigration system well and isn't already overwhelmed by a tremendous caseload can be much harder.

The number of immigrants detained under the custody U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in county jails has grown significantly in the past year, as the government works to deport as many immigrants as possible. Religious workers in Illinois want to ensure that those detainees are able to meet with clergy who can help them cope during their incarceration. The Illinois Access to Religious Ministry Act, HB 2747, would provide immigrants detained by ICE the same access to religious visitation as inmates in Illinois' criminal system.

Tope Awe, a University of Wisconsin student who was detained last month when Department of Homeland Security officials decided her father's medical visa had run out, is now free. But her case isn't over.

A Dream Deferred launched earlier this year to bring together students from across the United States to blog and organize in support of the DREAM Act.

In the new film The Visitor, an unsuspecting college professor named Walter Vale is thrust into the middle of a modern-day immigrant story. Within days of befriending a young immigrant couple, he is forced to grapple with the harsh realities immigrants face in the United States today, and how unjust immigration laws affect all Americans.

From The Badger Herald: "Tope Awe, a third-year graduate student in the UW School of Pharmacy, and her family were summoned to the U.S. Homeland Security office in Milwaukee Thursday. When Awe and her brother Gbenga Awe - a recent UW-Stevens Point graduate - arrived, both were unexpectedly arrested, her father Sam Awe told The Badger Herald."

In recent months the National Immigrant Justice Center has had the great fortune to see several detained clients who have fought for their freedom for years be released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The New York Times today broke a heartbreaking story about a woman who applied for permanent residence and was coerced to have sex with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agent who held her fate in his hands. Such corruption is "rampant," the agency's former chief investigator said.

From the LA Times: "In a stinging ruling, a Los Angeles federal judge said immigration officials' alleged decision to withhold a critical medical test and other treatment from a detainee who later died of cancer was 'beyond cruel and unusual' punishment."

The discharge petition to bring this dangerous anti-immigrant bill to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives has gained momentum. Representatives need to hear TODAY from supporters of immigrants and workers.