This Latitude Adjustment Podcast live discussion was with Amilcar Valencia, founder of El Refugio, an organization that offers supports to families of detainees at the Stewart Detention Center in the US state of Georgia. Like many migrant detention centers scattered across the US, the center in Stewart is the destination for people who have been taken into detention from across the US, and like most of these facilities it is run by a private for-profit corporation.
Amilcar spoke to us about his own experiences as an immigrant from El Salvador, the struggles that separated families have to endure when family members are detained, what has changed (and what hasn't) under the Trump administration, and what we can do to help bring about overdue changes to create a more humane immigration policy in the US.