This week, over 170 orgs sent a letter to the Biden admin demanding an end to all ICE detention contracts expiring in 2023.
Biden must act urgently to release people from detention, cut contracts & shut down facilities permanently. #CommunitiesNotCages #immigration #Biden #Detention #ImmigrationDetention
📨bit.ly/BidenEndContracts
Melvin Ariel Calero-Mendoza's family deserves answers about what happened to him inside the Aurora ICE detention facility in #Colorado. House Bill 1100 would prevent state & local govts from contracting w/ privately-run facilities, like the GEO run Aurora.
Read more:
https://www.cpr.org/2023/02/15/aurora-ice-inmate-deaths/
This is another story of double punishment. STOP transferring people from state or local custody to ICE detention.
Listen to Sandra's resilient story and support her in demanding ICE drop its appeal!
➡️ bit.ly/freesandra #StopICETransfers #immigration #Freethemall #doublepunishment
After serving 19 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit, then another year in immigration detention after prison officials transferred her to ICE, Sandra Castañeda saw her conviction vacated, and an immigration judge ruled there are no grounds to deport her — but ICE is appealing.
"Simply put, people navigating their immigration case should be able to do so with their families freely in the community — not behind bars in immigration detention. Berks is now empty — let’s use this momentum to shut down all immigration prisons."
đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź #AbolishDetention #immigration #berkscounty #immigrationdetention #detention
Berks County Detention Center is officially shut down! A movement win nearly a decade in the making, members of the #ShutDownBerks Coalition campaign reflect on the closure of Berks Detention Center in TruthOut.
Read for inspiration & motivation. #AbolishDetention #immigration #berkscounty #immigrationdetention #detention
No matter how ICE spins it, there can be no alternative to a system that should not exist in the first place. Nothing needs to replace immigration detention, which is illegitimate and unnecessary.
đź“š DWN's "The Case Against Alternatives to Detention": https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/DWN_The%20Case%20Against%20ATDs_12.1.22.pdf
Local communities in NM are taking steps to end immigration detention through state legislation.
Detention centers in NM are emblematic of how the immigration detention system is inherently abusive, unjust & fatally flawed beyond repair.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico legislators have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments and state agencies from entering into contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private detention facilities to detain immigrants in civil cases.
Washington, DC – Yesterday, President Biden announced several new restrictive immigration policies that further undermine the asylum process, expand inhumane Title 42 expulsions, and increase the use of expedited removal. In response, Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director of Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement: “Biden’s new immigration enforcement policies continue a failed decades-long deterrence strategy and are a page from the same xenophobic, anti-immigrant playbook as the previous administration.
