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Santa Fe, NM – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Immigrant Safety Act, House Bill 9, into law today, cementing New Mexico's place as a national leader in protecting immigrant communities and refusing complicity in the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation system. The historic legislation, sponsored by Representatives Eleanor Chávez, Angelica Rubio, Andrea Romero, Marianna Anaya, Senator Joseph Cervantes, and 19 other sponsors, prohibits state and local governments from entering into agreements to detain individuals for civil immigration violations, stops the use of…

Nationwide — When the COVID-19 pandemic began, immigrant rights advocates raised the alarm over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) putting the lives of people in detention at even more risk. As the federal government declares this public health emergency over, calls are intensifying for the Biden administration to address an array of cruel immigration detention practices and policies. Local communities across the country are proposing state legislation that would end ICE facility contracts as a step toward shutting down detention centers entirely. Decades of abuse in the immigration…

Washington, DC — As calls are intensifying for the Biden administration to fulfill his campaign promise and address Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deadly detention system, local communities are advancing legislation to take steps toward shutting down facilities and releasing people from ICE custody. Four bills in Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and Washington State would significantly reduce the use of immigration detention. The abuses of the detention system have been heavily documented by advocates, detained people, medical professionals and even the Department of Homeland…