MONDAY: We're taking our fight for #CommunitiesNotCages virtual! Join us on Zoom for a rally, speak out, and dozens of meetings with lawmakers to stand against racist & unjust sentencing laws. RSVP: bit.ly/CNCVirtual

Today, on Homeland Security’s 20th anniversary we are calling on Congress and President Biden to cut funding to ICE and CBP, shut down immigration detention centers and invest in our communities instead! #DefundHate #CommunitiesNotCages #DHS20
Join us at 5:30 in DC @ ICE headquarters 👇

By continuing to ask Congress to fund ICE and the deportation machine, President Biden has not kept the promises he made to protect immigrant communities. Instead, he is leading an assault on asylum and increasing detention numbers. #CommunitiesNotCages #DefundHate

In Albany today with VOCAL-NY Moms Demand Action and other groups to support the legislation to #EndQualifiedImmunity . Tell your NY reps to co-sponsor!
End Qualified Immunity in NY Robert Jackson #CommunitiesNotCages

Today, it’s quicker to hop on a plane with an actual bag of cash than to send a wire transfer. It’s time to update the system — crypto can help.

NEW: There is one last detention center in New Jersey that holds immigrants for ICE — and operator CoreCivic is nearing the end of its contract.

So, CoreCivic is suing Gov. Murphy to lift the ban on detention centers working with ICE.

documentedny.com/2023/02/22/cor…

TODAY, 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

Read: bit.ly/BidenEndContra…

#CommunitiesNotCages Team 10 out here for justice!

Today is #CommunitiesNotCages ’ first advocacy day of 2023.

Use this tool, p2a.co/pkru7PJ, to contact your lawmakers and demand they stand with us to:

❌ ELIMINATE MANDATORY MINIMUMS
❌ END EXTREME SENTENCING
✅ SUPPORT TRANSFORMATION
❤️ And bring our loved ones home!

Today, on Homeland Security’s 20th anniversary, we're calling on Congress and President Biden to:

- cut funding to ICE and CBP
- shut down immigration detention centers
- invest in our communities instead!

#DefundHate #CommunitiesNotCages #DHS20

The folks with raised hands in this picture identify as victims and survivors— and they are out here in support of the Earned Time, End Mandatory Minimums, and Second Look Acts. This campaign is about the healing of generational incarceration & racism. It’s #CommunitiesNotCages

Team 9 representing Westchester meeting with our legislators in Albany today and demanding #CommunitiesNotCages Center for Community Alternatives T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

The question folks are asking is- will Governor Phil Murphy stand w/the people who were formerly detained at the EDC, faith leaders, community members, advocates & activists who have been trying to #ShutDownEDC for almost 3 decades & defend the law he signed in 2021? #CommunitiesNotCages

Did you know: over the last 20 years since Homeland Security’s creation, more than $1.4 TRILLION taxpayer dollars have been funneled into DHS? We must move away from mass policing & militarization & invest in our communities instead. #DefundHate #CommunitiesNotCages #DHS20
Join us today!

Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute joined over 170 organizations in demanding that the federal government end all ICE detention contracts expiring in 2023, including the one in Plymouth County (MA)

#CommunitiesNotCages

It argues that since CoreCivic has shown no indication that ICE even intends to renew the contract, it can not allege that it has been or will be damaged by NJ's anti-detention law and therfore has no standing to bring suit. #ShutdownEDC #ICEoutofNJ #CommunitiesNotCages

Spreading love today and every day!
#CommunitiesNotCages

Bail reform & the care economy are linked. JFREJ member Jon McFarlane is both a family caregiver & formerly incarcerated.

Locking people up breaks down already-fragile care infrastructure. NY must support caring for people, not caging people! #NoRollbacks #CommunitiesNotCages

Join us tomorrow w/ a powerful action at ICE in DC @ 5:30 PM in coordination with #DefundHate United We Dream 🍊 & Detention Watch Network (DWN) as we mark 20 years of DHS, ICE, & CBP - institutions that have continued to inflict harm on our communities!
#DefundHate #CommunitiesNotCages #DHS20

APRIL 25: Over the past 50 years, NY’s laws have resulted in increasingly harsh sentences — with no opportunity for judges to review + reconsider individual cases. If you believe in second chances, join #CommunitiesNotCages for a Day of Action: bit.ly/CNCApril25

APRIL 5: Join us in Brooklyn to write and answer letters from our currently incarcerated #CommunitiesNotCages leaders, and participate in storytelling activities. RSVP: bit.ly/CNCLetters

'My dad's older, he's almost 90. There needs to be a caregiver there. I would say most of the day incarceration probably would've wiped out that benefit for him and me as his caregiver.'

Jon running errands for his father:

.Maryam Sy's advocacy is a family affair. At #TPS clinic Sy helped organize, her children babysat applicants’ kids while her bro helped w logistics. Here Maryam, her son + nephew—an asylum seeker from Mauritania—demonstrate for #CommunitiesNotCages #TPS forMauritania!

According to Sophia Genovese of NMILC, detention centers are not 'profitable or beneficial' to the rural communities where they are frequently located. “We are working to fight now at the federal level to cancel these individual contracts 1 by 1.' #CommunitiesNotCages