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Unbuild Walls Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

By Silky Shah, Foreword by Amna A. Akbar

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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BAAJA Analysis of Impact on Detention Expansion

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act Will Accelerate the Expansion of Deadly Immigration Detention Facilities. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) is slated for a vote soon after the midterm elections. As written, this bill would pave a path for detention expansion by making immigration detention facilities easier to build and much harder to stop. It would undermine years of work by organizations across the country to protect communities and resist detention expansion, weakening the tools we use to hold immigration agencies accountable.
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Enraging, Mounting Loss of Life in ICE Custody

New Orleans, LA - Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena, 36, has died in ICE custody of alleged medical neglect, following Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) failure…
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ICE Detention Expansion Under Trump 2.0: IGSA Expansion

This resource is part of a series that explores the various avenues for massive detention expansion. Here, we discuss plans to expand ICE detention through Intergovernmental Service Agreements (IGSAs). It is estimated that ICE’s use of county jails since President Trump’s inauguration has at least doubled.