Family Detention and Advocacy

Open Society and the American Civil Liberties Union recently cosponsored a screening and discussion of The Least of These, a documentary that explores the human and political dimensions of immigrant detention through the lens of the T. Don Hutto family detention center in Texas.

Last month, the U.S. government announced that it will stop imprisoning families at Hutto. The now notorious facility was the subject of an ACLU lawsuit over the conditions in which families and children, many asylum seekers, were housed.

However, the fate of family detention—and of immigrant detention generally—is very much an open question. This forum considered both the future of immigrant detention and the ways in which advocacy around conditions at Hutto—including litigation, grassroots organizing, and documentary filmmaking—helped create the important political moment in which we find ourselves today.

Listen above.