Open Statement to the Biden Administration: Detention is not an effective or humane response to people seeking safety at the border and it must not be expanded
Washington, DC – Today, 233 organizations sent an open statement to President Biden demanding the administration make good on its commitments to never detain families, to end privatized immigration detention, and ensure that people seeking safety can pursue their cases while living in communities in the United States rather than being subjected to inhumane detention and surveillance.