📢People detained at Desert View Annex are on hunger strike! Join the action in LA today, 8/20! We invite you to stand w/ the hunger strikers & their families at the rally in support of the 22 demands that highlight the systemic neglect, exploitation, & dehumanization they face.

When immigrant rights are under attack what do we do? Stand up! Fight back! Thank you to the immigrant leaders, organizations & community members who stood up for immigrant rights yesterday. Our communities need funding for health & education, NOT more detention &deportation!

Yesterday community protested outside the Philadelphia ICE Office for immigrant rights and marched to the Senators’ office President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, @senbobcasey, @johnfetterman SHUT IT DOWN! End the contracts with Moshannon, Pike, Clinton, and Elizabeth Detention Centers now!

NEW op-ed from @free_migration & Pennsylvania Immigration & Citizenship Coalition shares Sereyrath "One" Van’s story and how the unjust immigration enforcement system in the U.S. continues to harm people and separate them from their families. Take action here:  bit.ly/allforONE-tool… inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

In our latest, Silky Shah joins us to discuss the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition patreon.com/posts/110836544

First ~20 min here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/tea…

Find Silky Shah’s new book Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition here: haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unb…

The Coney Island case is a horrible act of violence. There must be accountability for the harm that occurred. Unfortunately, the NYT’s reporting here seriously misrepresents local policies that are crucial for keeping the public safe. Thread 🧵x.com/nytimes/status…

New The Guardian story on recurring hunger strikes at Geo Group’s Mesa Verde & Golden State Annex in CA. People detained demand justice, freedom, and protest ICE & GEO’s inhumane treatment and lack of accountability. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

No one deserves the horrid conditions LGBTQ+ migrants face in US detention centers. 🏳️‍🌈 19thnews highlights lack of care for ppl seeking asylum AND our shocking report w Immigration Equality & Human Rights First "No Human Being Should Be Held There." #EndDetention 🚫🔒 19thnews.org/2024/08/ice-cu…

A new complaint filed by immigrants detained at Golden State Annex ICE facility @asianlawcaucus recounts how survivors endured sexual abuse & harassment as a form of retaliation for speaking out against medical neglect, unsafe conditions and $1-a-day pay. bit.ly/alc-crcl827

GEO Group is one of the world’s largest private prison corporations and has $1.5 billion contracts to ICE's GSA & MV detention centers. We reiterate the strikers' demand: it’s time to terminate GEO Group’s contracts and end an incessant record of brutality and abuse!

Join tomorrow's phonebank in solidarity with the hunger strikers bit.ly/MVGSAResist 🔥🧊🔥

Happening now!

Detention should never mean dehumanization. Last week, the #ShutDownAdelanto Coalition rallied outside the USCIS Los Angeles Field Office, sharing the 22 demands and powerful testimonies from the men courageously participating in the #HungerStrike inside Desert View Annex. Learn

HAPPENING NOW: Join IL Immigrant Rights for a live-streamed conversation with Silky Shah, Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network and author of the new book Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, out now from Haymarket Books. 🔗📺facebook.com/share/v/GEMrnD…

❗A new report reveals conditions in 9 Louisiana immigration detention facilities based on 59 visits & interviews w/ 6,384 people detained. Report reveals: denial of language access, deprivation of human necessities, abusive  treatment, & medical neglect. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

✨More beautiful art from DWN’s 2024 Artist in Residency, Angelica Frausto. Angelica’s residency aims to promote divestment from immigration detention and reinvestment in community resources by envisioning a future of abundance. Read more at detentionwatchnetwork.org/artist-in-resi….

We protested outside the San Francisco ICE office last week and heard from people inside immigrant detention. “It is inhumane for ICE and GEO to treat us as if we are nothing." - Oscar Lopez, detained by ICE at Golden State Annex southkernsol.org/2024/09/04/pro…

Two former guards at the Baker County Detention Center in FL speak out on what it was like working for ICE & their local sheriff’s office including: racist harassment, neglect, retaliation, and abuse in a system that does not need to exist.  #ShutDownBaker floridatrident.org/former-guards-…