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Yesterday, Secretary Noem used people as props for the Trump admin's latest media spectacle. The Salvadoran prison is used as a tool of propaganda with the core objective to dehumanize and villainize people while carrying out their cruel mass detention and deportation agenda unchecked.

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The Trump’s regime continued targeting of activists is an attempt to silence political opposition. The arrest and detention of activist Jeanette Vizguerra is another example of the rise of authoritarianism under this administration. ✒️Demand Jeanette’s freedom: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette

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Both Republicans & Democrats oversaw the merger of the criminal legal & immigration systems, leading to more people being deported & detained. Read @amnaakbar.bsky.social’s interview w/ abolitionist immigration justice organizer @silkys13.bsky.social, new @ PB:

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

📢 CALL TO ACTION! 🚨 CA Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to “Trump proof” the state — now we’re holding him to his word. Join our virtual phone zap next Tuesday at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET, as we call on Governor Newsom to pardon FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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📣 GEO Group is reopening a shuttered Michigan prison as an ICE detention center—one of the largest in the country. As part of Trump’s plan to triple detention, they stand to profit $70M a year off people’s lives and a community that has been forced to rely on a carceral economy.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

🚨ACTION NEEDED! HB 9, which bans future IGSA agreements for ICE detention facilities in New Mexico, risks dying unless Senate Judiciary Chair Joseph Cervantes puts it on the agenda. Urge him to act now before the session ends. Send emails now! @aclunm.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

submitted 13 days ago • 108 comments

As the genocide of Palestinian people resumed, DWN remains resolute in our demand for a permanent ceasefire. We believe in the liberation of oppressed people & express our unequivocal solidarity with Palestine. ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/kha...

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Latest @detentionwatchnetwork.org statement: "This is a tipping point in Trump’s cruel detention and deportation agenda that echoes some of the darkest moments in US history, including the Red Scare & Japanese American incarceration during World War II" www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

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On Friday, Senate Demos fully co-signed Trump's dangerous and immoral anti-immigrant and anti-democratic agenda. Democrats continue to bargain with immigrant lives and have now supercharged Trump’s cruel detention and deportation agenda by passing this funding bill.

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NEW: For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org: I interviewed several attorneys in the Md area whose clients were held in ICE field office processing cells -- meant for less than a 12-hour hold -- for several days without beds, showers, medication. www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2025/03...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...

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Looking for a primer on immigration detention? This segment on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver dives into detention going back to the 80s & 90s covering the change in laws, private prisons, & deaths in detention. It also includes a shout out to the state level strategies to end detention.

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“Too often, immigrant communities are targeted by ICE because of what they look like, the same way the policing system criminalizes people of color. And increasingly, the agency seems to be targeting people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.” -Laura, JFL staff attorney

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⚠️The House bill backed by Trump will supercharge his cruel detention and deportation agenda! The Senate must deny Trump the resources he needs to carry out his cruel detention and deportation agenda by blocking the bill as a rebuke of Trump’s hate! Send a letter: 🔗bit.ly/SenateSayNo

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

📰 NEW! 🗞️ 35+ organizations from all corners of New Jersey are gathering in Newark to say: 🔥 FUERA ICE 🧊! One of the world's greediest private prison corporations wants to move in and profit off of ICE's cruelty & Trumps mass deportation agenda. Join us as we say: 👁️ NOT ON OUR WATCH‼️

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Setareh, DWN’s advocacy director, notes in the report: “Guantánamo is an example of how immigration enforcement is expanding past ICE – it is involving the DOD, it is going offshore, in a remote location, to a place that is a place symbolic of abuse & torture.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re looking for a primer on immigration detention this segment on @lastweektonight.com is surprisingly thorough going back to the 80s and 90s and covering the change in laws, private prisons, and deaths in detention. It also includes a shout out to the state level strategies to end detention.

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For those not aware, ICE has always been able to arrest, detain, and deport lawful permanent residents who (usually through a criminal conviction). They are not immune from deportation. Thousands lose their status every year. What's so outrageous about this incident is the targeting due to speech.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

This is it. Period. Remember: - Immigrants in detention can be undocumented or documented immigrants, including people whose immigration status is not current, expired or is under review. The immigration detention system is fundamentally inhumane and unjust.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The alarming return of family detention, a policy that was widely condemned and has been dormant for four years, is yet another layer of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and cruel expansion of immigration detention, that if fully realized will triple the current detention system.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s address should spark a rallying cry for everyone to unite for the rights & dignity of all people. Immigrants are vital & valued members of our communities and we demand elected leaders vehemently & vocally reject the admin’s hateful attacks. Read our full statement: bit.ly/41tRjCY

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Left Voice editor @saminthecan.bsky.social spoke with @detentionwatchnetwork.org executive director @silkys13.bsky.social about Trump's expansion of the war on immigrants and why advocates for immigrant rights should unite with other struggles against oppression. www.leftvoice.org/immigrants-h...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Today, the Etowah County Jail (Etowah) in Alabama will once again begin detaining people in ICE custody, according to Sheriff Jonathon Horton. www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2... 1/3

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Today in NJ, the GEO Group and DHS announced that Delaney Hall, a privately owned jail contracted by ICE between 2011 and 2017 and the subject of recent lawsuits, will reopen in Newark with the capacity to detain up to 1,000 people—more than quadrupling detention capacity in the state.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Three people died in detention over the last month, ages ranging from 29-45. As @prisonculture.bsky.social has said, prisons are death making institutions. The expansion being implemented by Trump & enabled by the Dems will only lead to more loss of life www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Lives are in jeopardy in ICE detention. Three deaths in ICE custody in just over a month of Trump’s presidency makes it the most deaths to occur in this fiscal year time period in five years. Take action to block the administration’s devastating attacks on immigrants today: 🔗 bit.ly/nofunding1

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s use of Guantánamo Bay is already putting people’s lives in danger. The U.S. military base is an embodiment of islamophobia, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia with a well-documented history of abuse and torture. Sign the petition: NO immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay! bit.ly/dwnaction1

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Reforms will never improve a system that is designed to punish and control people. We love this excerpt from our “Unbuild Walls” episode with @silkys13.bsky.social @detentionwatchnetwork.org #UnbuildWalls #FamilyPolicingSystem Full Episode 🔗 buff.ly/411EfED www.youtube.com/shorts/ep89I...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

🚨ACTION ALERT: Join us in urging our representatives to block the administration’s devastating attacks on immigrants by rejecting funding for enforcement, detention, & deportation throughout the budget reconciliation process. TAKE ACTION by making calls and sending letters today: 🔗 bit.ly/nofunding1

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

NEW from me— Air Jordan Tattoo Prompts ICE to Send Venezuelan Migrant to Guantánamo Bay Tattoos have long been used by DHS to falsely accuse migrants of gang affiliations and facilitate expedited removal migrantinsider.com/p/air-jordan...

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“GITMO has the potential to become the stage for some of the worst war crimes in modern history, like with all prior iterations of GITMO and the Japanese Americans mass incarceration," said Mike, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Tsuru for Solidarity in a NEW opinion piece for @newsweek.com.

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