Christina is an expert on immigration law and immigration enforcement, particularly immigration detention conditions. Her impressive work creating detention visitation programs nationwide is inspirational and provides people with a way to connect with immigrants living in isolation in detention facilities and to learn more about our immigration system.
Center for American Progress
- Jan 15 2014
Her heart-wrenching story about the horrendous treatment of detained immigrants was truly something to remember. It helped show the importance of immigration reform to all who were in attendance. Our first annual CLUE-Los Angeles Immigration Ingathering was a big success and we could not have done it without Christina Fialho.
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)
- Nov 16 2013
Christina Fialho’s unique blend of energy and unflappable, adaptable composure made it seem effortless to conduct in two cities in one day two three-hour trainings on immigration detention and the power of visitation. With both youth and experience, she connected with all of us, university students to grandparents, Catholic nuns to Unitarian Universalists. Each session was both interactive and substantive. She had us share our local questions and concerns while she provided a national context of diverse detention settings. Above all, she motivated us with a sense of connection to a broad visitation movement.
Northwest Detention Center Roundtable & University Unitarian Church of Seattle
- Nov 16 2013
This week Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) released seven audio recordings and videos documenting arbitrary use of solitary confinement, sexual assault, physical abuse by federal agents, prolonged detention, retaliatory transfers, and other aspects of life inside U.S. immigration detention...
“These immigration detention facilities almost operate outside of U.S. law,” said Christina Fialho, the co-founder of CIVIC, an organization that seeks to expose abuses in detention facilities. “If you’re a non-citizen in immigration detention, you’re not afforded many of the safeguards of the constitution. Because these facilities are so isolated, people don’t have access to people that can advocate on their behalf.”
"Holding immigrants in privately run detention centers doesn't benefit anyone but the companies that manage them," said Christina Fialho, whose organization, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement, operates visitation programs at 32 immigrant detention facilities. Fialho, whose group organized a protest outside the Adelanto facility Monday, said its remote location 40 miles north of San Bernardino makes it difficult for families and attorneys to visit.
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