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The latest creation of Dominican artist Ruben Ubiera is a mural in Wynwood, Miami, called #IamHere , depicting the faces of eight people—almost all long-time residents of Florida—who have shared their immigration stories. They include a young man put in foster care after his mother was deported, a bi-national gay couple who cannot apply for legal status for the undocumented partner, and a pregnant woman subjected to civil immigration detention for over a month, including solitary confinement, without a bond hearing. If we don’t fix our broken immigration system soon, the faces in the mural will be the only remnant we have left in Florida of many of these people.

Note: This blog post originally appeared on the National ACLU Blog of Rights. That post can be found here. By Rebecca McCray, ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project Last week down in Florida, 14-year-old Tremaine McMillian was playing in the water with a friend at the beach when a Miami-Dade police officer approached him to ask what he was doing, misinterpreting their play for a fight. Tremaine walked away from the officers, carrying his new puppy in his arms. After observing his allegedly "dehumanizing stares" and clenched fists, the officer used his ATV to chase Tremaine down and throw him to the ground in a chokehold so intense that the teenager wet himself during the incident. It was his mother who caught part of the incident on camera.