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Decreasing Enforcement Funding in FY 2019 DHS Appropriations Bill
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to reduce funding for this administration’s harmful border militarization and immigration enforcement policies. Any increase in funding will facilitate family separations, cause irreparable harm to the border region, and incentivize mass detention and deportation—policies that tear apart the fabric of our families and communities.
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Trump’s Asylum Ban and the Looming Announcement to Partner with the DOD on Massive Detention Camps, Intersect to Bolster Trump’s Efforts to Appropriate More Funds to ICE
Washington, DC — Detention Watch Network (DWN) condemns Trump’s presidential proclamation to unlawfully ban migrants from long-standing asylum protections as the latest attack in his…
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Trump Previewed Two Devastating Shifts: The Unraveling of the Asylum System and a Massive Ramp Up of Indefinite Immigration Detention in the Form of Tent Cities
Washington, DC — In response to Trump’s hate-filled speech today on immigration, Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network issued the following statement: “Today…
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As Caravan of Asylum Seekers Approaches the US, Immigrant Rights Groups Condemn Session’s Threat to Keep Immigrants Indefinitely Detained
Read the Amicus Brief Washington, DC – As a caravan of thousands of people seeking asylum approaches the United States, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is…
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Detention Watch Network Launches Nationwide “Communities not Cages” Campaign to Stop the Growth of Immigration Detention
Washington, DC — Today, Detention Watch Network launched a new campaign, #CommunitiesNotCages, aimed at halting the massive expansion of the immigration detention system. With nearly…
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Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Retaliation Against Immigrants’ Rights Activists
Seattle, WA — NWDC Resistance, Detention Watch Network, and the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, October 23rd asking the federal court…
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Trump’s DHS Operates Under an “Answer to No One” Mentality, Grabbing Money Left and Right to Bankroll the Deadly Immigration Enforcement System
Washington, DC — Today it was announced that Mike Pompeo unilaterally approved the transfer of State Department funds to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
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Public Outcry Pressured Congress to Reject ICE’s Request for More Money in Latest Budget Deal
Washington, DC — Yesterday, Congress reached a budget deal to fund the federal government through December 7, avoiding a shutdown. Noticeably absent from the continuing…
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Rally and Press Conference to Stop the Transfer of Immigrants in ICE Custody to Federal Prisons
Stockton, California — Today, immigrant rights activists, community leaders and people who have been directly affected by the immigrant detention system gathered for a rally…
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Advocates Demand Congress Stop Detention Funding
Washington, DC — Immigrants, faith leaders and advocates from the #DefundHate coalition will gather in the offices of Senator Schumer and Senator Shelby to deliver…