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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

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A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S.

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✨NEW RESOURCE✨“The Case Against Alternatives to Detention”, our new resource out today, makes the case against ATDs both as a short‑term solution & a long‑term strategy for abolishing immigration detention. #AbolishDetention Read now: bit.ly/atdresource

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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

@DetentionWatch

📢 The contract between ICE & Yuba County Jail is ENDING! ICE plans to transfer the remaining individuals detained at Yuba County Jail instead of releasing them. Join

& take action for #ReleasesNotTransfers! 📲📨Make calls and emails here: bit.ly/yubaliberation

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Shared this #DefundHate Holiday Card with

's staff! Tis the season to help one another. Congress must cut the bloated budgets of ICE & CBP - abusive agencies that siphon billions from communities in need.

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Shared this #DefundHate Holiday Card with

staff! Tis the season to help one another. Congress must cut the bloated budgets of ICE & CBP - abusive agencies that siphon billions from communities in need.

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Azadeh Shahshahani

Our new article in The Hill on lack of accountability for human rights violations in ICE prisons: "It's time for the U.S. to own up to its human rights obligations, stop locking up migrants, bring an end to profiteering off their pain" With Sarah Paoletti thehill.com/opinion/immigr

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Read more about Floperation Lone Star, Governor Greg Abbott’s diversion of TX taxpayer dollars into his heinous anti-immigrant scheme, and all things Texas in the Bum Steer Round-up of 2023 ✨

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The dopes, villains, and terrible ideas that bedeviled our beloved state over the past twelve months. (This time, with slightly less Ted Cruz!) trib.al/bhvYjJv

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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

@DetentionWatch

Will you join us as we prepare for the road ahead? Together, we are fighting for our collective liberation. You can support our vital work by donating today. Donate to DWN at: bit.ly/gift2dwn

Blue graphic with white text that reads: No one can do the work to end immigration detention alone. This past June, DWN hosted our National Member Conference in Seattle, bringing together 116 members and allies from 24 states for collective learning, strategy development, and relationship building to strengthen the movement. Donate to DWN: bit./y/gift2dwn

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

ICE informed TRAC that Alternatives to Detention (ATD) data previously released b/t August 2022 and December 2022, as well as data previously released for FY 2022, was inaccurate. TRAC urges caution in interpreting the latest numbers ICE has just posted. trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email

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Pablo Manríquez

New: Movement for Justice en el Barrio hand-delivered Christmas cards to the NY offices of

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yesterday demanding their senators sign onto the #registry bill + defund ICE & CBP.

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

What should be a joyous season is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and, instead, investing in communities. #DefundHate

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Axel Herrera Ramos

What should be a season of being con familia, is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, investing in communities, including ours!#DefundHate

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Axel Herrera Ramos

@RepDavidEPrice

Congress must also resist any and all efforts to use the appropriations process to further restrict the human right to seek asylum, including any amendments to extend or codify the Title 42 expulsion program. #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

‘Tis the season to defund ICE and CBP ❄️⛄️😤 #DefundHate #CutICE #CutCBP #FreeThemAll

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Simply put, people navigating their immigration case should be able to do so with their families and in community––not behind bars in immigration detention. We must defund ICE and CBP! #DefundHate

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Cynthia Garcia• She/They/Elle

@Sin_Papeles_CJ

What should be a joyous season, is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, investing in communities, including ours!#DefundHate

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Congress must also resist any and all efforts to use the appropriations process to further restrict the human right to seek asylum, including any amendments to extend or codify the Title 42 expulsion program. #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

We are trying to flood Members of Congress Twitter today Tweet at your Member of Congress to urge them to shift away from the failed punitive response to migration and think about the families impacted in their district by ICE and CBP’s targeting and surveillance.

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Jocelyn Barrera

As we get to the end of 2022 I urge you to think about the 29,026 people inside detention who won’t get to ring in the New Year with their loved ones. #DefundHate

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Ivette Stafforini

What should be a joyous season, is painful for the communities, ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, invest in communities, including ours!#DefundHate

@RepDavidValadao

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Jovanny S Hernández

What should be a joyous season, is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, investing in communities, including ours!#defundhate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Congress has the moral responsibility to defund ICE & CBP abusive agencies that siphon billions of dollars' worth of resources that communities across the country need. #defundhate

Rosa DeLauro and 3 others

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Happy Holidays from me to you Don’t be a grinch or a Scrooge Slashing ICE and CBP budgets will Bring all of the children great holiday cheer! #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

We just delivered our #DefundHate New Year’s Resolutions. Congress has the moral responsibility to defund ICE & CBP abusive agencies that siphon billions of dollars' worth of resources that communities across the country need. #DefundHate

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@TheFelixMindset

On the first day of the New Year, Congress must give to me, cuts to ICE and CBP! #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Congress must also resist any and all efforts to use the appropriations process to further restrict the human right to seek asylum, including any amendments to extend or codify the Title 42 expulsion program. #DefundHate

@SenatorLankford

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

What should be a joyous season, is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, investing in communities, including ours!#DefundHate

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Michelle Murguia

On the first day of the New Year, Congress must give to me, cuts to ICE and CBP! #DefundHate

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The real “OG” Omar Gallardo (He/Him/El)

Stop funding

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's efforts to rip families apart, harm asylum seekers, & lock up & deport our immigrant neighbors! We should instead invest in programs that strengthen our community & benefit everyone. #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Today join Nationwide End Of Year Card Delivery Twitter Storm. We are trying to flood Members of Congress Twitter today. Tweet at appropriators and your Member of Congress to urge to Defund ICE and CBP. #DefundHate

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Santa, tell me if you're really there Don't make another detention center here or anywhere Santa, tell me if Congress really cares 'Cause I can't keep giving all my tax dollars To deportation agencies that won’t #FreeThemAll #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

Winter is coming! The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, But that doesn’t mean that Congress can’t do what’s right #DefundHate you can do it tonight!

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

What should be a joyous season, is painful for the communities ICE & CBP target for expulsion, surveillance, detention, & deportation. We urge Congress to act boldly & shift by defunding ICE and CBP, and instead, investing in communities, including ours!#DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

@DetentionWatch

Today, members of the #DefundHate campaign are delivering extra-large holiday cards that call on Congress to take bold action to defund ICE & CBP! Join us and send a virtual card of your own❄️: actionnetwork.org/letters/new-ye

Make the Road New Jersey

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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

@DetentionWatch

🎶 Santa, tell me if you're really there Don't make another detention center here or anywhere Santa, tell me if Congress really cares 'Cause I can't keep giving all my tax dollars To deportation agencies that won’t #FreeThemAll #DefundHate 🎶

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Detention Watch Network (DWN)

@DetentionWatch

Nobody should have to live with the fear of being separated from their loved ones or displaced from their home. Show us your values this new year by cutting funds for these harmful agencies. Tis' the season to Defund ICE & CBP & bring joy to all of our communities! #DefundHate

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

We joined others across the country to request our congresspeople cut funds to ICE and CBP including the Alts to Detention (https:afsc.org/story/alternat). ⁦

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Detention Watch Network (DWN) Retweeted

We delivered our message today here in Florida. Our tax dollars should be invested in education, housing, health care programs that provide opportunity and increased well-being for all . #DefundHate #ChooseWelcome

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𝐀𝐅𝐒𝐂 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀

This week our team were working with the Miramar Circle Of Protection in a #DefundHate giant Christmas Card to deliver to legislators, in a week of action that AFSC will have around the country. The message is clear #DefundHate #ChooseWelcome

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Make the Road New Jersey

Carlos, a member of our Perth Amboy committee shares about the several ICE raids in his community to

’s staff. He is urging Congress to #DefundHate and deliver a pathway to #Citizenship4All

and United We Dream

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