A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S.
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
Today, on DHS's 20th anniversary, DWN is calling on Congress and #POTUS to cut funding to #ICE and #CBP shut down immigration detention centers and invest in our communities instead! #DefundHate #CommunitiesNotCages #DHS20 #Immigration
It’s time for Congress to stop funding agencies that waste taxpayer money + undermine our values. Instead of giving billions to ICE + CBP to jail immigrants, funds should be redirected to health care, education, housing + programs that benefit all of us. #DefundHate #DHS20 #DHSat20 #DHS #Immigration
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
"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."
👏👏👏 #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.
📚 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.
Shame! 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.
Read our statement on last week’s announcement here: https://t.co/qa0dF3oAAQ