🚨 NEW REPORT: Black migrants face far higher levels of abuse and violence in immigration detention. It’s clear immigration detention is rooted in anti-Black racism.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to our Paint & Sip in NYC! 🎨🍷
Want to paint your own #abolition themed piece of art? Stay tuned for future Paint & Sip fundraisers coming to a city near you 👀
🎨 Original painting by Jennaya Dunlap, FFI’s Bond Fund Coordinator
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We are looking forward to having Sofia Casini from talk to us in an hour about their work and the role that visitors groups play in organising to end detention in the #US 🇺🇸
Join the conversation by registering here: tinyurl.com/yc47ypcd
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🎉 The Yuba County Jail and ICE detention contract is ending! This was the last county jail in California to detain people for ICE. Power to the Yuba Liberation Coalition! #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention Read more:
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We are so excited to share that the Stop Immigration Bond Abuse Act (#SIMBAA) has been signed into law by ! We are incredibly proud of the Break the Shackles Coalition and the directly impacted people who made this victory possible.
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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
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⚡️ Action alert! This week, we're rallying for the release of Paul White, a Black bisexual immigrant who has lived in the U.S. his entire adult life. Paul is fighting to be reunited with his daughter.
Join the phone zap today! b.link/FreePaulToolkit
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GREAT NEWS: Salesh Prasad will FINALLY be reunited w/his family after being granted bond from ICE custody. Big congrats to Maddie Boyd & advocates statewide who’ve been fighting to #FreeSal! We’re still pushing for to pardon Sal.1/
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Learn more about Marlissa’s story and our new “Uncovering the Truth” report here:
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PART 2 🔊: Marlissa Joseph is speaking out from immigration detention to fight back against the racism and abuse she faces in ICE custody. #AbolishDetention #FreeThemAll #ImmigrationIsABlackIssue #FreeBlackMigrants
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📢 BREAKING: We FINALLY get to celebrate THE END OF THE YUBA-ICE CONTRACT!
The Yuba Liberation Coalition calls for the immediate release of the remaining individuals.
#CarlosSauceda #FaithfulFriends
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📢 Delighted to announce that will be speaking at our AGM next Thurs 15th December at 3.45pm.
They'll be sharing powerful and inspiring lessons from their visitors groups on organising to end detention⚒️
Spaces are limited so book now: tinyurl.com/yc47ypcd
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We're bringing the fight to #FreePaulWhite to ICE's doorstep! Join us at ICE HQ (500 12th St SW #5600, Washington, DC) this Monday 12/12 at 1 PM ET for a RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE to demand #FreePaulWhite NOW! #FreeThemAll
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"After years of visitation to support, advocate for, and organize with the families and then adult women at Berks, we are beyond thrilled that this detention center is finally being shut down," says Tonya Wenger, organizer w/ Shut Down Berks Interfaith Witness and .
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"While previous administrations had shifted their use of Berks over the past two decades, no amount of repurposing could ever change the inherently immoral and abusive nature of immigration detention," says , Interim Executive Director of Freedom for Immigrants.
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🎉 This shut down is a win for & communities who have fought for years to see this day!
“This is such good news," says a father who was detained at Berks with his child. "There will be no more traumas for children and adults in that place.”
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ORGANIZING WORKS! IT'S BEING SHUT DOWN!!!!!
This is a victory for the Berks community, A result of a collaborative effort between many including people who have suffered the violence of detention at Berks #ShutDownBerks #CommunitiesNotCages
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“I asked them to give me my freedom," said Ajay Kumar, survivor of immigration detention and ICE force feeding. "If they had granted it at that time, there would have been no need for all of this.”
#AbolishDetention
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We joined and 400+ other groups calling on to extend and redesignate #TPSforHaiti. Haiti is in a desperate situation, Haitians cannot be returned to a country where they are likely to experience harm.
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After being shot 4 times by the LAPD, Pedro is at risk of being deported to El Salvador where he faces danger to his life.
Listen to Pedro share his story in this video.
Sign the petition and help us #FreePedro for the holidays
👉 bit.ly/FreePedroNOW
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ICYMI: Our latest report tracking abuse and internal advocacy across the immigration detention system is out.
Learn more here: freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-snap
#AbolishDetention #FreeThemAll
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As communities across the US gather to celebrate Thanksgiving and the holiday season, tens of thousands of migrants remain locked away in abusive immigration detention centers.
Read FFI's latest Detention Snapshot to see what our team has been tracking freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-snap
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Our vision for a better, more just world includes building a society in which immigrants are welcomed with dignity, not inhumane detention. The generosity of our supporters allows us to fight for that mission every day!
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This #GivingTuesday, support Freedom for Immigrants in our mission to #AbolishDetention!
By showing your generosity through a donation today, you’ll empower the FFI team to continue making strides in the struggle for our collective liberation.
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"This administration has utterly failed our communities who continue to be subject to abhorrent human rights abuses inside detention," says Andrea Carcamo, FFI's Policy Director.
We're demanding close immigration detention centers. Read more:
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This is an issue at Stewart Detention Center, families uncertain of visiting hours for men and women and whether visits are open do to Covid numbers. When families call SDC seeking answers to basic questions, the phone rings and rings. Sometimes a guard answers and then hangs up.
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For the third consecutive holiday season, people in detention are cruelly deprived of visits from family and loved ones, which blocks vital human connection and human rights monitoring.
ENOUGH. @POTUS, it’s past time to fully #ReinstateVisitation
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After decades of documented abuse, harm, and death, it’s clear that immigration detention is beyond the reach of reform. We must #AbolishDetention
To learn more about abuses tracked this quarter, check out the full infographic series on Instagram:
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Representing only a fraction of the hundreds of reports received each month, the examples in this update offer a window view into the daily realities of immigration detention and ICE’s abusive practices. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
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Under Biden, the number of people in immigration detention has DOUBLED (while the number of people surveilled by ICE enforcement-based monitoring programs has QUADRUPLED). Today, nearly 30,000 people are subject to ICE’s abuses across its detention system.
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As communities across the US gather to celebrate Thanksgiving and the holiday season, tens of thousands of migrants remain locked away in abusive immigration detention centers.
🔎 Read FFI's latest Detention Snapshot to see what our team has been tracking freedomforimmigrants.org/detention-snap
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As we work to #AbolishDetention and #FreeThemAll, we demand fully #ReinstateVisitation NOW!
Visitation is vital for human rights monitoring, and allows people in detention and communities to build and maintain relationships and human connection.
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, this is the third consecutive holiday season that people in detention are deprived from seeing their loved ones. It’s not true that ICE has reinstated visitation. Their policy continues to block visits at most detention facilities. #ReinstateVisitation
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"The inconsistency with the visitation guidelines has made it more difficult for my parents to see me," says José, detained in Bakersfield, CA.
Detention facilities & private prison companies can exploit ICE’s current policy to block visitation.
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As we work to #AbolishDetention and #FreeThemAll, we demand #ReinstateVisitation
Visitation is vital for human rights monitoring, and allows people in detention and communities to build and maintain relationships and human connection.
Learn more:
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"I want to see my son before the end of the year, I don't know how I'll do it. But I really hope me, his dad and him can all be together soon," says María, José’s mother.
, fully #ReinstateVisitation NOW so María can see her son!
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As detained immigrants approach 3 yrs of isolation, it’s common for family members to travel for hours across state lines under the impression they can visit w/ loved ones only to arrive at detention facilities to learn visitation has just been “shut down.” #ReinstateVisitation
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"We're not in good hands," says José, detained in Bakersfield California. "At the same time, we're deprived of visits with our loved ones, it's not right."
, make it right and fully #ReinstateVisitation for the holidays.
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For the third consecutive holiday season, people in detention are cruelly deprived of visits from family and loved ones, which blocks vital human connection and human rights monitoring.
ENOUGH. , it’s past time to fully #ReinstateVisitation
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Under Biden, the number of people in immigration detention has DOUBLED and the number of people surveilled by ICE enforcement-based monitoring programs has QUADRUPLED.
, enough is ENOUGH
📰We're joining 113 partners in demanding Biden cut detention:
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