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Unbuild Walls Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.
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ICE Releases Sham Immigrant Death Reports as it Dodges Accountability and Flouts Congressional Requirements
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 19, 2018) -- Under intense pressure from civil society and Congress in light of an autopsy report which suggested Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez…
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Leading Advocates Call for Congress to Reject Border Wall Funding, Increased DHS Budget
Washington, DC — As Democratic congressional leadership heads to the White House to negotiate Department of Homeland Security funding with President Trump, leading civil rights…
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More than 200 Organizations Call on Congressional Leadership to Reject Funding Increases for Immigration Enforcement During Lame Duck, Cut Funding in 2019
Washington, DC — More than 200 non-governmental and advocacy organizations sent a letter to congressional leadership today in advance of the December 7th expiration of…
Organizational Letters to Congress
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)…