Fight to Undo Private Detention

Catch us at the celebration of defiance at seven oaks park!

Another life lost to immigration detention: Last month Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, died while in ICE custody on August 31 in AZ. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, AZ and has reported that the cause of his death is currently known.

Alex Karp is at the heart of the US deportation-military-industrial complex. The co-founder and CEO of Palantir supplies the surveillance tools that supports the ICE disappearance machine at home and the war machine abroad, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

classsolidarity.org/audits/alex-...

A white van with "NO ICE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" spray-painted on it is on fire, with smoke and flames bursting from the roof and broken windows; the background is bright yellow with purple accents.

New high res graphic by @superlunaristarot at the @justseeds.bsky.social website: justseeds.org/graphic/no-i...

Looking for a place to protest? Find your local ICE detention facility 👇🏼

We’re taking action to stop “ICE Air.”
Avelo Airlines is cashing in on Trump’s cruel deportation machine by running secretive, often illegal, flights. Join our campaign to make these flights too costly to continue. www.groundavelo.org/...

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Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.

Who's Profiting from ICE? - Google My Maps ICE depends on a web of private companies, local law enforcement, and elected officials around the country to support its work. This map includes: • Organizations receiving funding from ICE from FY...

Lots of ICE procurement activity this week. Several companies added to the map and some HUGE new contracts.

Details to follow 🧵

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ground avelo

Avelo Airlines profits off Trump’s terror tactics by running secretive (often illegal) deportation flights. We’re organizing to ground “ICE Air” by undermining the pillars that prop up Avelo’s business. Join our campaign to make Avelo Airlines’ deportation flights too costly to continue.

Ice used Marriott chain to detain immigrants, despite hotel’s 2019 pledge not to cooperate Sheraton in Louisiana held father and teenage son this month in apparent contradiction of former position

Add Marriott to the list of companies reneging on promises they made during Trump 1.0 to cut ties with ICE and detention operators.

Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale with ICE planning to double its detention capacity by the end of this year to detain nearly 110,000 people. Texas alone will have the capacity to detain at least 37,000 people.

A way to slow the ICE detention juggernaut? - The World Journal by Mark Craddock WALSENBURG — In late 1995, Huerfano County’s unemployment rate hovered around 5.5%, among the worst in the state. Meanwhile, the State of Colorado was in the throes of trying to quick...

Highly recommended read: CoreCivic seems poised to push its shuttered Huerfano County Correctional Center back into use as an ICE detention facility.

The question: will local leaders have the will, resources, and public support to join communities like Leavenworth in fighting back?

This is the kind of energy we want to expand to the private employees doing ICE's dirty work for them!

Boycott Avelo: No Flights for Deportation! In April, ultra-low-cost commercial passenger airline Avelo Airlines announced taking a $150 million contract to fly deportation flights for ICE out of the Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona. Days later,...

You can also take digital action to support #BoycottAvelo by sending emails to the Avelo Airlines CEO and leadership team, demanding that they end their dirty ICE contract, and demanding all public/private partners of the airline to end their partnership with Avelo until they do so:

At the same time, communities are fighting back and working to shut down detention centers.

@detentionwatchnetwork.org's Communities Not Cages campaign supports groups on the ground organizing against immigrant detention.

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/...

A domed building sits on a lot with trees and greenery beside a roadway with a car. A headline reads: "This City of Prisons Is Suing Over a Planned ICE Detention Center" Photo by David Robery Elliott for The New York Times

Leavenworth, Kansas, was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are now divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town. nyti.ms/3IW2Kh3

Reminder that as a corporate lobbyist, Pam Bondi represented scores of clients facing federal regulatory scrutiny — including Amazon, Uber, and GM.

She also represented the government of Qatar and ICE contractor GEO Group.

"Conflicts of interest" is an understatement.

Overcrowded conditions plague Otay Mesa and other immigrant detention facilities Lawyers representing detainees at San Diego County’s Otay Mesa Detention Center say overcrowding is forcing their clients to sleep on the floors of their cells and damaging their health.

ICE calls it "civil" detention, but we call it prison. But as ImmDef’s Staff Atty Tracy Crowley told @kpbssandiego.bsky.social:

“They call it civil detention as a way to differentiate it from incarceration,” shared Staff Atty Tracy. “It’s no different.”

📖 Full Investigation: tinyurl.com/488rxcv6

Proud to give DISGUSTING Avelo Airlines the send-off it deserves for operating deportation flights of immigrants to detention centers for ICE! Avelo to close US West Coast base amid backlash over deportation flights! Great seeing folks protesting on a Sunday afternoon! Goodbye Avelo! ICE out of LA!

Find out who's profiting from ICE contracts. www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/v...

Note: This is not intended to be a list of companies to boycott/protest, but rather a starting point for further research.

CoreCivic-run South Texas Family Residential Center (aka Dilley) is once again detaining young children and letting them suffer through untreated illness.

Our inaugural counter-recruitment qppearance turned away at least two people who were going to interview for corecivic. It's a small victory, but we're only getting started...