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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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The killing of George Floyd awakened the public to the disproportionate impact of the criminal punishment system on Black and brown communities
Washington, DC — In response to the guilty verdict on all three charges of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Silky Shah, Executive…
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Bill signed into law in Washington State will phase out private prisons. Groups call for immediate closure of the notorious Northwest Detention Center
Seattle, WA — Today, after years of sustained local activism led by immigrant rights groups in Washington including, La Resistencia and the Northwest Immigrant Rights…
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183 Immigrant and Human Rights Groups call on the Biden administration to end the practice of holding unaccompanied children in HHS influx facilities
Washington, DC — Today American Friends Service Committee, CASA, Detention Watch Network, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Tsuru for Solidarity, and United We Dream delivered a…
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Analysis of President Biden’s Executive Order on Private Prisons
On January 26th President Joe Biden signed an executive order to begin phasing out the use of privately operated prisons by the Department of Justice…
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Analysis of ICE Revision of Interim Enforcement and Removal Guidelines
On February 18, 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson issued a memo establishing guidance regarding the interim enforcement and removal guidelines…
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Local communities advance state legislation to reduce immigration detention, as Biden has yet to shut down ICE detention centers
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…
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Administrative Advocacy Priorities for the First Year of the Biden Administration
For the last four years the immigrants’ rights movement has been on the defensive. We focused on organizing and fighting back against Trump’s never-ending attacks…
Analysis
Ending Detention at the Border: Recommendations to the Biden Administration
No matter where someone came from or how they arrived in the United States, their life is of value and worthy of dignity and respect…
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It’s detention if people are in ICE custody, no matter how the agency rebrands it
Washington, DC — Advocates are voicing concern in response to the news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is rebranding two out of its three…
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Detention Watch Network Escalates Communities Not Cages Campaign to Shut Down 10 ICE Detention Centers
Washington, DC — Today Detention Watch Network (DWN) announced the “First Ten to Communities Not Cages'' campaign, demanding the shut down of 10 immigration detention…