A government that cages children, denies them medical care, and subjects them to inhumane conditions is choosing cruelty. Every child deserves dignity, safety, and freedom. Free the children. End family detention. Shut down Dilley.
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We’re abolitionists working to end immigration incarceration by organizing with and following the leadership of detained immigrants. #FreeThemAll Learn more: https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org
📣 1,804 CALLS FOR HAITI TPS! 🇭🇹📞 Join Haitian Bridge Alliance and @amnesty.org this Thursday, July 23rd, for a virtual phone banking event to call our senators and demand that they protect Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
The CA Assembly just PASSED AB 1537, The No Side Jobs for ICE Act, by Asm. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social! This bill will ensure local police and sheriffs can’t “moonlight” as deportation agents. THANK YOU to Asm. Bryan, coauthors, all members who voted yes, and supporters. Now, on to the Senate!
New reports reveal the federal gov't is pressuring Minnesota officials to expand local jail cooperation ICE in exchange for withdrawing forces, to which we say - HELL NO. We must leave no one behind in our fight for justice and freedom. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Jail-to-ICE Transfers Are Unjust: Minnesota Must Hold the Line — Freedom for Immigrants
MINNEAPOLIS — Following reports that the federal government is pressuring Minnesota officials to expand local jail cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in order to ...
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"Make no mistake: ICE’s terror is anything but rogue. The agency is operating exactly as intended and as it has for decades, only now with a record-high level of resources and unfettered power." Our statement on the deaths of Keith Porter and Renee Good: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
FFI Mourns Those Killed in Latest String of Deadly ICE Terror — Freedom for Immigrants
LOS ANGELES — Following the deaths of Keith Porter, a Black man who was killed in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, and Renee Nicole Good, a...
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Some of the hardest convos you’ll ever have with family and loved ones will be about topics like ICE and deportations. Just in time for the holidays, check out our new guide, inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's essay on the practice of listening.
We're honored to be alongside you in this fight. To our supporters who have risen to the challenges of this past year -- thank you.
Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happens When You Don’t Belong Anywhere?
More than 50 Bhutanese men with criminal records have been deported back to the country they fled — and swiftly deported out of it.
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We’re not going to sugarcoat it: Our fight for collective liberation takes immense resources. Now more than ever — as we’re up against a record-high number of people in ICE detention — our ability to respond depends on your support. Donate: freedomforimmigrants.app.neoncrm.com/forms/giving...
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Officials at the privately-run Farmville Detention Center in VA are retaliating against individuals for protesting rotten and inedible food. Read accounts from the inside in our joint statement ⬇️ #ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
New Reports of Rotten Food with Worms at Farmville Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants
FARMVILLE, Va. — On Sunday, October 19, people detained at Farmville Detention Center reported evidence of worms in their food. When people detained brought this up to staff in the detention center...
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ICE is callously jeopardizing the health and safety of pregnant people in detention, denying critical prenatal care in already horrific conditions. As FFI Organizing Director Amanda Díaz told @theintercept.com, even basic medical care is hard to come by. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
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We mourn the loss of Huabing Xie and extend our deepest sympathies to his loved ones. Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Advocates mourn another loss of life to ICE detention under Trump — record number of ICE deaths within a calendar year — Freedom for Immigrants
IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. — Freedom for Immigrants, Imperial Liberation Collaborative, and Detention Watch Network are mourning the death of Huabing Xie who died in ICE custody on September 29 after be...
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ICE is subjecting a growing number of our community members to solitary confinement — a known weapon of psychological torture — inside secretive immigration detention centers. Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...
‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump
A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.
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🚨🚨 In the roughly two weeks since the California City Correctional Facility secretly opened as an immigration detention center without proper permits, roughly 500 people are already detained in dangerous conditions. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Private Prison Corporation Defying California Law at Unpermitted Immigration Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants
CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service at the California City Correct...
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“Immigration detention functions as an expansion of America’s racist prison system and is inherently anti-Black," says FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández in a new statement responding to the Trump admin's use of the infamous Angola prison for ICE. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
FFI: Shut Down Angola — for ICE, for Everyone! — Freedom for Immigrants
NEW ORLEANS — Following the Trump administration’s announcement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin detaining people at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary as a tactic t...
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More ICE ankle shackling = more harm, more enforcement. Not freedom. “It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors
A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.
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🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵
Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump
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Is your loved one lost in immigration detention? See our full toolkit here: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/toolkit-lost... ¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...
Our executive director Laura Hernández recently spoke with @prismreports.org for a new feature on our Project Keep Away initiative! We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization. prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...
New helpline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline’
Freedom for Immigrants recently launched Project Keep Away, a first-of-its-kind hotline, in two California women’s prisons
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We’re #hiring a Communications Coordinator! Freedom for Immigrants is searching for a passionate advocate with first-hand knowledge of the immigration and/or incarceration systems to join our team. Learn more and apply: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a330...
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💥 Introducing Project Keep Away, our new initiative that empowers communities to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within! ⛓️ Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...
Project Keep Away — Freedom for Immigrants
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📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters! Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer! Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.
Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, HRW is featuring activists who are fighting for human rights. Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.
Trump’s anti-immigration bill is a devastating assault on our livelihoods. This monstrous bill will drastically expand the immigration detention system to an unprecedented scale, resulting in immeasurable harm to hundreds of thousands. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
FFI Decries Passage of Heartbreaking Anti-Immigration Bill — Freedom for Immigrants
Trump’s spending and anti-immigration bill slashes tens of billions of dollars from health care, food assistance, education programs, and other vital services to provide a staggering $150 billion for ...
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The Senate just voted to expand the immigration detention budget by 13 fold, which would fuel detention to levels of horror never before seen and undoubtedly lead to more deaths. Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
More Detention Means More Deaths, Family Separation, and Private Prison Profits — Freedom for Immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid another series of preventable deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, a record-high daily detention population number, and Trump and Congress’ push to dr...
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A damning, must-read investigation by @wired.com examines the brutal and deadly medical abuse imposed by the government against our neighbors and loved ones inside immigration detention. Read here: www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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Trump has paid the president of El Salvador over $5 million to disappear U.S. migrants to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), known for abysmal conditions and abuses. By labeling certain migrants as terrorists, Trump continues to brutalize immigrants. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
Immigration detention is a machine of mass state violence, often carried out by private detention corporations who pocket billions of dollars. As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Immigrant-detention officer charged with choking handcuffed migrant
The private security officer is accused of putting his hands around the detainee’s neck and throat and slamming him against walls.
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Rumeysa Ozturk is free! "Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk. www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
Rumeysa Ozturk shares concern for hundreds of women still in ICE custody in Louisiana
The Tufts University graduate student, who is back in Massachusetts six weeks after being detained by federal agents in Somerville, highlighted the roughly 900 women detained at the South Louisiana IC...
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Ximena Arias-Cristobal is facing deportation after police pulled over the wrong person. All charges have been dropped, but Ximena is still detained and at risk of deportation despite coming to Georgia at just 4 years old. ICE has no place in our communities. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...
Georgia teen arrested by ICE faces deportation, despite dismissed traffic charges: "My life is here"
In her first interview since being detained by ICE, Ximena Arias Cristobal told CBS News said her biggest worry is not being able to stay in Georgia.
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