Mijente  🐜 🐜 🐜

Alfred Marshall w/ @FIPVOTENOLA response: "No, I was arrested many times over ridiculous things, like 'loitering' in front of my own home. The way they're targeting immigrants, it's the same treatment they dealt to Black people during 'War on Drugs.'" #EyesonICE

Alfred Marshall w/ @FIPVOTENOLA: “We fought to release people from jail by ending max/min sentences, but ICE has contracted with the same prisons & filled them up. We continue to be the incarceration capital of the world. Whether it’s ICE or prison, it’s the same.” #EyesonICE

Phal Sok, organizer w/ @YouthJusticeLA responds: “I came to the US from Cambodia as a refugee at 2 y/o. When my father passed away at 16 and I struggled. I ended up in the criminal justice system as a young person. I went in and got tried as an adult.” #EyesonICE

Phal Sok, organizer w/ @YouthJusticeLA continues: "Abolition is about ending the caging of ppl. It's also about eradicating the social issues that push people into circumstances that criminalize them. " #EyesonICE

.@_LaTania w/ @conmijente asks the next question: ICE says that the reason they’re targeting folks with aggravated felony convictions is for public safety purposes. Do you think your community would be safer if ICE had deported you? #EyesonICE

Phal Sok, organizer w/ @YouthJusticeLA responds: "No, the reason this is happening is b/c private prisons and detention centers want to continue making profits. It's not about making anyone safer." #EyesonICE

.@_LaTania w/ @conmijente introduces Haydee whose brother is currently detained. Asks the first question: “Could you share some of your brother’s story?” #EyesonICE