Juana Villegas from Mexico, was nine months pregnant when she was stopped for careless driving (for which she was later found innocent); instead of receiving a customary citation, because of an agreement between local police and federal immigration authorities, she was detained in jail where she was shackled and remained shackled in transit to the hospital and while she gave birth and was then not allowed to use a breast pump or nurse her newborn child.

Ali Pakistani-born, HIV+ gay man, living in New York City for 30 years with a green card; after serving a brief term in jail for a minor crime, he was immediately turned over to immigration authorities and spent more than a year in detention where he witnessed the worst kind of physical abuse and medical mistreatment, including constantly fighting to get his HIV medication which he needed to survive and often being given the wrong medications or doses