Detention Watch Network
A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
- This NEW RESOURCE summarizes some of the key ways the Trump administration is shifting policies and practices to surveil, arrest, detain, deport and silence immigrants and people who support them. 🔗 ilrc.me/resist @the-ilrc.bsky.social @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @detentionwatchnetwork.org
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- Communities in NJ are making the demand clear: shut Delaney Hall down! We commend Mayor Baraka for joining the people of NJ to reject Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
- Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz & other notorious prisons is part of a broader push to dehumanize & vilify people. Instead of funding cages + deportations we should invest in education, housing, & healthcare that strengthen communities. 🔗Act now: bit.ly/BlockICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Join us! DWN welcomes prospective board members who are committed to our mission, share our values, and are ready to actively support staff and engage in national board leadership. 🔗Learn more: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/about/jobs-o...
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- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkGrateful for this piece from @silkys13.bsky.social in @truthout.org, on Trump's first 100 days on immigration: "what the history of the system teaches us is that when we accept that some people are deserving of detention, then more people will eventually be at risk." truthout.org/articles/tru...
- "An honest stock-taking of the Trump administration’s first 100 days reveals how bipartisan support for detention expansion and criminalization of immigration created the ideal conditions for today’s war on immigrants.” NEW op-ed by @silkys13.bsky.social DWN’s executive director in @truthout.org.
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- Military bases have been used to confine people seeking refuge—from Guantanamo Bay to evacuation sites. Join us this Thursday, 4/24, to unpack the history, current threats & resistance of the Trump admin's plan of immigration detention expansion to military bases. 🔗Register: bit.ly/dismantle424
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- 💥Take action today for the #CommunitiesNotCages National Day of Action! 🧰 Join an action near you: bit.ly/CNCtakeaction 🖊️Stop immigrant detention expansion: bit.ly/BlockICE 🖊️End family detention: 🔗actionnetwork.org/letters/end-family-detention
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- 📣Join us April 17th for a National Day of Action demanding Communities Not Cages! #FreeThemAll! No Raids! No Deportations! Attend a local action and uplift national petitions. 🧰 Action toolkit: bit.ly/CNCtakeaction to join an action near you. @immjustice.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkAfter our story on Deployed Resources was finished -- in a major development -- ICE posted an up to $3.8 billion to the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss. The first move in plans to detain thousands of migrants on military bases www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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- Today’s WH mtg between Trump & Bukele should alarm everyone. The use & escalation of offshore penal colonies – from Guantánamo to El Salvador – is a stain on the US, & a clear tool of propaganda to dehumanize & villainize people while carrying out Trump’s cruel agenda unchecked. bit.ly/4cxsEST
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- People are not commodities to be shipped, discarded, and profited off of. ICE’s record and Lyon’s shocking comments yet again make it clear that people are not safe in ICE custody – not now, not ever. Read DWN's full statement: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
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- The targeting of students and the revocation of visas should be seen as an inflection point in the rising authoritarianism of Trump’s regime. Nationwide, ICE is depriving over 47,892 students, workers, and loved ones of their liberty in a system rife with abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- ACT NOW: Congress is in negotiations that could result in a staggering amount of additional resources funneled to the Trump admin to continue its mass detention & deportation agenda while cutting funding for programs & services that support everyone’s needs. actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...
- Reposted by Detention Watch Network🔥⛓️💥 TRANSPHOBIA is intensified inside detention centers. Which is why anti-detention and anti-deportation organizing are life saving strategies. and terror trans people live inside. 💚 @genderlib.com 🏳️⚧️ www.trans_week.com 🦋 @familiatqlm
- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkAs we wrap up Trans Week before TDoV+A we invite you to learn and engage with the #EndTransDetention tactics to end the detainment, deportation and terror trans people live inside. 💚 @genderlib.com 🏳️⚧️ www.trans_week.com 🦋 @familiatqlm
- Check out the in-depth convo between @silkys13.bsky.social, author of #UnbuildWalls w/ @amnaakbar.bsky.social. In @publicbooks.bsky.social, Silky reflects on how we got to the current moment while outlining some of the key lessons presented in “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition.”
- Yesterday, Secretary Noem used people as props for the Trump admin's latest media spectacle. The Salvadoran prison is used as a tool of propaganda with the core objective to dehumanize and villainize people while carrying out their cruel mass detention and deportation agenda unchecked.
- The Trump’s regime continued targeting of activists is an attempt to silence political opposition. The arrest and detention of activist Jeanette Vizguerra is another example of the rise of authoritarianism under this administration. ✒️Demand Jeanette’s freedom: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette
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- 📣 GEO Group is reopening a shuttered Michigan prison as an ICE detention center—one of the largest in the country. As part of Trump’s plan to triple detention, they stand to profit $70M a year off people’s lives and a community that has been forced to rely on a carceral economy.
- 🚨ACTION NEEDED! HB 9, which bans future IGSA agreements for ICE detention facilities in New Mexico, risks dying unless Senate Judiciary Chair Joseph Cervantes puts it on the agenda. Urge him to act now before the session ends. Send emails now! @aclunm.bsky.social
- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkRead the full letter as a PDF here: ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
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- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkMust read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
- As the genocide of Palestinian people resumed, DWN remains resolute in our demand for a permanent ceasefire. We believe in the liberation of oppressed people & express our unequivocal solidarity with Palestine. ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/kha...
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- On Friday, Senate Demos fully co-signed Trump's dangerous and immoral anti-immigrant and anti-democratic agenda. Democrats continue to bargain with immigrant lives and have now supercharged Trump’s cruel detention and deportation agenda by passing this funding bill.
- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkNEW: For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org: I interviewed several attorneys in the Md area whose clients were held in ICE field office processing cells -- meant for less than a 12-hour hold -- for several days without beds, showers, medication. www.typeinvestigations.org/news/2025/03...
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- Looking for a primer on immigration detention? This segment on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver dives into detention going back to the 80s & 90s covering the change in laws, private prisons, & deaths in detention. It also includes a shout out to the state level strategies to end detention.
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- ⚠️The House bill backed by Trump will supercharge his cruel detention and deportation agenda! The Senate must deny Trump the resources he needs to carry out his cruel detention and deportation agenda by blocking the bill as a rebuke of Trump’s hate! Send a letter: 🔗bit.ly/SenateSayNo
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- Setareh, DWN’s advocacy director, notes in the report: “Guantánamo is an example of how immigration enforcement is expanding past ICE – it is involving the DOD, it is going offshore, in a remote location, to a place that is a place symbolic of abuse & torture.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- This is it. Period. Remember: - Immigrants in detention can be undocumented or documented immigrants, including people whose immigration status is not current, expired or is under review. The immigration detention system is fundamentally inhumane and unjust.
- The alarming return of family detention, a policy that was widely condemned and has been dormant for four years, is yet another layer of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and cruel expansion of immigration detention, that if fully realized will triple the current detention system.
- Trump’s address should spark a rallying cry for everyone to unite for the rights & dignity of all people. Immigrants are vital & valued members of our communities and we demand elected leaders vehemently & vocally reject the admin’s hateful attacks. Read our full statement: bit.ly/41tRjCY
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- Today, the Etowah County Jail (Etowah) in Alabama will once again begin detaining people in ICE custody, according to Sheriff Jonathon Horton. www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2... 1/3
- Today in NJ, the GEO Group and DHS announced that Delaney Hall, a privately owned jail contracted by ICE between 2011 and 2017 and the subject of recent lawsuits, will reopen in Newark with the capacity to detain up to 1,000 people—more than quadrupling detention capacity in the state.
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- Lives are in jeopardy in ICE detention. Three deaths in ICE custody in just over a month of Trump’s presidency makes it the most deaths to occur in this fiscal year time period in five years. Take action to block the administration’s devastating attacks on immigrants today: 🔗 bit.ly/nofunding1
- Trump’s use of Guantánamo Bay is already putting people’s lives in danger. The U.S. military base is an embodiment of islamophobia, anti-Blackness, and xenophobia with a well-documented history of abuse and torture. Sign the petition: NO immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay! bit.ly/dwnaction1
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- 🚨ACTION ALERT: Join us in urging our representatives to block the administration’s devastating attacks on immigrants by rejecting funding for enforcement, detention, & deportation throughout the budget reconciliation process. TAKE ACTION by making calls and sending letters today: 🔗 bit.ly/nofunding1
- Reposted by Detention Watch NetworkNEW from me— Air Jordan Tattoo Prompts ICE to Send Venezuelan Migrant to Guantánamo Bay Tattoos have long been used by DHS to falsely accuse migrants of gang affiliations and facilitate expedited removal migrantinsider.com/p/air-jordan...
- “GITMO has the potential to become the stage for some of the worst war crimes in modern history, like with all prior iterations of GITMO and the Japanese Americans mass incarceration," said Mike, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Tsuru for Solidarity in a NEW opinion piece for @newsweek.com.
