Clara Long
Human Rights Watch
San Francisco, CA, United States
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'Hugs Not Walls' an Inspiration for US Immigration Policy
One line of families winds down from the US city of El Paso, Texas, and the other line meanders from Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, Tamaulipas. They meet on the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande, a concrete culvert that marks the border between the United States and Mexico. These are family members separated by US immigration policies. → Read More
No, It’s Not the Same Old Thing at the Border
No child should be held for hours, much less days in such conditions. But there’s one important difference from 2019 – an administration that says it is building a system to manage the border in alignment with the values of humanity and dignity. → Read More
US to Permit Some Asylum Seekers to Return from Mexico
Starting next week, asylum seekers currently waiting in Mexico with pending cases before United States immigration courts can sign up to enter the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security. → Read More
We went to a border detention center for children. What we saw was awful
Children taking care of children, scant access to family members, regular showers, bathing, toothbrushes, proper beds and beyond, write Clara Long and Nicole-Austin Hillery. Congress needs to act to stop building more detention facilities and instead reunite families--and cease officials' practice of using detained kids to bait immigrants in US. → Read More
We went to a border detention center for children. What we saw was awful
Children taking care of children, scant access to family members, regular showers, bathing, toothbrushes, proper beds and beyond, write Clara Long and Nicole-Austin Hillery. Congress needs to act to stop building more detention facilities and instead reunite families--and cease officials' practice of using detained kids to bait immigrants in US. → Read More
Children at Risk in US Border Jails
The three-year old before me had matted hair, a hacking cough, muddy pants, and eyes that fluttered closed with fatigue. His only caretaker for the last three weeks in a United States Border Patrol chain-link cage and then a cell…his 11-year old brother. → Read More
US Should Focus on Rights Concerns in Tariffs Deal with Mexico
The US Congress should urgently turn its attention to the impact of a new agreement between Mexico and the Trump administration aimed at reducing the number of migrants coming to the United States’ southern border. → Read More
ICE Force-feeding Immigrant Detainees on Hunger Strike
ICE officials are force-feeding six immigrant detainees who are on hunger strike in Texas, according to an investigation published by the Associated Press. → Read More
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies in US Border Patrol Custody
The headline alone made my heart sink. “7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion.” I felt a wave of deep sadness, but no surprise. → Read More
Mother Sues over Death of Toddler Released from US Immigration Detention
A Guatemalan mother detained with her toddler this year in Texas is suing authorities for the child’s death, citing “unsafe conditions, neglectful medical care, and inadequate supervision" in family immigration detention. → Read More
This mother's terrifying journey should be over, but it's not
I wanted so badly to tell a woman with a child almost the same age as my own that she was welcome here to make a new life. But it just wasn't true, says Clara Long. → Read More
Deported Parent Worries One-year Old Will Have Lasting Trauma
When Rolando last saw his son, Johan, he was an active 11-month old who liked to listen to music and dance. In the run up to their reunion today, after more than four months apart, he was not sure the boy would even recognize him. → Read More
Another Death in US Immigration Detention
Another person died in the United States’ sprawling and abusive immigration detention system last week. → Read More
The False Choice Between Family Separation and Detention
As US President Donald Trump ended his appalling mass family separation policy on the US southern border, he claimed a false choice: the US government either needs to separate families that cross the US border or detain them together. But family detention is not the best or only alternative to family separation – other approaches exist that are both just and fair. → Read More
US Bashes UN For Critiquing Trump Family Separation Policy
Today, the UN’s human rights office denounced the US practice of separating children from their migrant and asylum seeker parents at the US border. In response, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley bashed the organization. → Read More
US Deporting More Long-Term Residents
Since Donald Trump became president of the United States, immigrants who have lived longer in the United States and established deep roots have increasingly become targets for deportation. → Read More
Trump’s Fearmongering about Migrant Caravan
President Donald Trump’s three-day Twitter rant on migrants in Mexico and call to send troops to the border comes along with a new push from the White House for immigration legislation. But the adminstration’s legislative proposals are as draconian as Trump’s tweets are misleading. → Read More
The nominee to replace John Kelly at Homeland Security shouldn’t get a free pass
Senators scarcely asked John F. Kelly about immigration enforcement during his January confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security. It was an oversight even then, given President Trump’s campaign promises to ramp up already draconian and inhumane immigration enforcement policies. Perhaps senators hoped that reasonable minds in Trump’s administration would prevail and trusted… → Read More
Mom of Four US Citizens Scheduled for Deportation
Maribel Trujillo Diaz has four young US citizen children, aged 14, 12, 10, and 3. She’s the main breadwinner for her household and has lived in the United States for 15 years. She is undocumented, but she has no criminal convictions. Yet she is scheduled to be deported to Mexico today. → Read More
US: ‘Gag Rule’ Huge Setback for Women
(Washington, DC) – The expanded “Mexico City Policy” or “Global Gag Rule” issued by United States President Donald Trump is a profound setback to hard-fought gains for women and girls’ health in countries around the world, Human Rights Watch said today, on International Women’s Day. → Read More