Detention Watch Network
@detentionwatchnetwork.org
A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
Trump’s use of large-scale detention facilities on military bases exacerbates the well-documented abuses inherent to the detention system. We demand the immigration detention center at Fort Bliss be shut down immediately! Read the letter from @aclu.org.
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump’s use of large-scale detention facilities on military bases exacerbates the well-documented abuses inherent to the detention system. We demand the immigration detention center at Fort Bliss be shut down immediately! Read the letter from @aclu.org.
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The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
www.latimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
📣NEW REPORT: "We’re locked up in 1000 ft cages. There are 32 people in each cage, and 8 cages inside the tent. The lights are like stadium lights; they’re always on, they’re never turned off or even dimmed ..." -Individual previously detained at "Alligator Alcatraz". From @amnesty.org's new report.⬇️
Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida
Amnesty International visited “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome detention centers to document human rights violations.
www.amnestyusa.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
📣NEW REPORT: "We’re locked up in 1000 ft cages. There are 32 people in each cage, and 8 cages inside the tent. The lights are like stadium lights; they’re always on, they’re never turned off or even dimmed ..." -Individual previously detained at "Alligator Alcatraz". From @amnesty.org's new report.⬇️
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Together with groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org, BAJI, Community Justice Exchange and more, this resource pulls together info and examples that folks are engaging in to stop new detention construction, slow down kidnappings, and interrupt the flow of funds, data, and resources to the machine.
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
interruptingcriminalization.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Together with groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org, BAJI, Community Justice Exchange and more, this resource pulls together info and examples that folks are engaging in to stop new detention construction, slow down kidnappings, and interrupt the flow of funds, data, and resources to the machine.
🗣️Take action for Yari before it's too late. Yari has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a serious illness. Since being detained at Eloy Detention Center, a notorious ICE facility known for horrific conditions, she has lost over 55 pounds & her health is deteriorating.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
Free Yari! Stop ICE’s Injustice Against LGBTQ+ Migrants
Sign this petition to demand the immediate release of Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez Yari must be freed before it's too late. Arbella Rodríguez Márquez—known as Yari—is a lesbian woman with legal ...
actionnetwork.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
🗣️Take action for Yari before it's too late. Yari has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a serious illness. Since being detained at Eloy Detention Center, a notorious ICE facility known for horrific conditions, she has lost over 55 pounds & her health is deteriorating.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...
Detention centers represent abuse, trauma, and death. With the explosive expansion of detention centers to shuttered prisons and military bases, the abuses inside will only be exacerbated now with even less accountability. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Detention centers represent abuse, trauma, and death. With the explosive expansion of detention centers to shuttered prisons and military bases, the abuses inside will only be exacerbated now with even less accountability. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The challenges we face are immense. But together, we can fight back. Your gift helps DWN to support our members’ local efforts to keep people safe and shut down detention centers.
Your gift has twice the impact today! Donate by texting “Alert” to 833-770-3966 or go to bit.ly/give2dwn to donate.
Your gift has twice the impact today! Donate by texting “Alert” to 833-770-3966 or go to bit.ly/give2dwn to donate.
Help us abolish immigration detention in the United States
Attacks on immigrant rights are paving the way for authoritarianism. The challenges we face are immense. But together, we can fight back. Your gift helps DWN to support our members’ local efforts to k...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The challenges we face are immense. But together, we can fight back. Your gift helps DWN to support our members’ local efforts to keep people safe and shut down detention centers.
Your gift has twice the impact today! Donate by texting “Alert” to 833-770-3966 or go to bit.ly/give2dwn to donate.
Your gift has twice the impact today! Donate by texting “Alert” to 833-770-3966 or go to bit.ly/give2dwn to donate.
Arely’s story reminds us that our trans migrant community continues to face violence inside detention. After months of abuse, separation, and fighting for others from within, she is finally free and healing — but she cannot rebuild alone.
Donate to her GoFundMe.
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Donate to her GoFundMe.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
Donate to National Activist Arely is FREE--Help her rebuild her life!, organized by Mich Gonzalez
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Arely Westley,… Mich Gonzalez needs your support for National Activist Arely is FREE--Help her rebuild her life!
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December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Arely’s story reminds us that our trans migrant community continues to face violence inside detention. After months of abuse, separation, and fighting for others from within, she is finally free and healing — but she cannot rebuild alone.
Donate to her GoFundMe.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
Donate to her GoFundMe.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
📣 Since September, hundreds of Chicagoans have been taken by ICE without cause. Now, we have the opportunity to bring them home. Judge granted hundreds of $1,500 bonds! Donate now to support their release! @ocadchicago.bsky.social @immigrantjustice.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
📣 Since September, hundreds of Chicagoans have been taken by ICE without cause. Now, we have the opportunity to bring them home. Judge granted hundreds of $1,500 bonds! Donate now to support their release! @ocadchicago.bsky.social @immigrantjustice.bsky.social
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Trump’s increasing use of military bases, funding, and personnel - now including the US Navy - for the targeting, detention, and deportation of people is beyond the scope and scale of any immigration enforcement plans we’ve seen before, setting a dangerous precedent.
Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trump’s increasing use of military bases, funding, and personnel - now including the US Navy - for the targeting, detention, and deportation of people is beyond the scope and scale of any immigration enforcement plans we’ve seen before, setting a dangerous precedent.
Save the date November 1-2! Join DWN, our members and partners across the country in honoring lives lost to immigration detention. Immigration detention is deadly and inherently inhumane. #DeadlyDetention @ndlon.bsky.social
🔗Go to www.disappearedinamerica.us to host and action or vigil.
🔗Go to www.disappearedinamerica.us to host and action or vigil.
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Save the date November 1-2! Join DWN, our members and partners across the country in honoring lives lost to immigration detention. Immigration detention is deadly and inherently inhumane. #DeadlyDetention @ndlon.bsky.social
🔗Go to www.disappearedinamerica.us to host and action or vigil.
🔗Go to www.disappearedinamerica.us to host and action or vigil.
ICE purposefully obscures the truth — full stop. For the nearly 60,000 people in ICE custody, every measure of oversight is crucial because lives are in jeopardy. This decision once again illustrates how no one is safe in ICE custody. #communitiesnotcages
ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
ICE purposefully obscures the truth — full stop. For the nearly 60,000 people in ICE custody, every measure of oversight is crucial because lives are in jeopardy. This decision once again illustrates how no one is safe in ICE custody. #communitiesnotcages
We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages
ICYMI: Join us this Tuesday! 💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
October 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ICYMI: Join us this Tuesday! 💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
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💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7
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On Tuesday, Oct. 7, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is hosting a virtual event to help folks in the U.S. learn how movements in El Salvador are fighting against authoritarianism and dictatorship. Registration link and more details can be found here: detentionwatchnetwork.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/d...
El Salvador & US: People's Resistance | Resistencia del Pueblo
El Salvador: Resistance to fascism, detention & US imperialism
detentionwatchnetwork.app.neoncrm.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
On Tuesday, Oct. 7, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is hosting a virtual event to help folks in the U.S. learn how movements in El Salvador are fighting against authoritarianism and dictatorship. Registration link and more details can be found here: detentionwatchnetwork.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/d...
📢 Take action! 📢 As the House and Senate continue to work on 12 spending bills for fiscal year 2026 both chambers are planning to increase funding for ICE adding onto the $45 billion ICE just received in the reconciliation bill.
NO MORE money for Trump's cruel plans.
Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding
NO MORE money for Trump's cruel plans.
Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding
Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding and Invest in Communities
We need you to take action NOW! On September 30th, the House and Senate will be reaching their government funding deadline. Given the short timeline and disagreements between the two political parties...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📢 Take action! 📢 As the House and Senate continue to work on 12 spending bills for fiscal year 2026 both chambers are planning to increase funding for ICE adding onto the $45 billion ICE just received in the reconciliation bill.
NO MORE money for Trump's cruel plans.
Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding
NO MORE money for Trump's cruel plans.
Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding
In a time of increasing repression, the fight for justice, peace, and dignity for all is crucial.
On October 9, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is excited to accept the @ips-dc.org Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
🎟️ Join us in celebrating! Get tickets now: ips-dc.org/event/lm49/
On October 9, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is excited to accept the @ips-dc.org Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
🎟️ Join us in celebrating! Get tickets now: ips-dc.org/event/lm49/
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In a time of increasing repression, the fight for justice, peace, and dignity for all is crucial.
On October 9, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is excited to accept the @ips-dc.org Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
🎟️ Join us in celebrating! Get tickets now: ips-dc.org/event/lm49/
On October 9, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is excited to accept the @ips-dc.org Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.
🎟️ Join us in celebrating! Get tickets now: ips-dc.org/event/lm49/
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📘BOOK LAUNCH📘
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Immigration Detention Panel
The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most voc…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📘BOOK LAUNCH📘
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
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📘BOOK LAUNCH📘
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Immigration Detention Panel
The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most voc…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📘BOOK LAUNCH📘
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org
🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...
Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable deadly scope and scale. The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking.
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez: the third casualty of Trump’s mass deportation operation : Peoples Dispatch
Outrage grows as ICE raids under “Operation Midway Blitz” turn violent, highlighting deadly pattern in immigration enforcement
peoplesdispatch.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable deadly scope and scale. The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking.
“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”
Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers
Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”
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.
Cruel and Deadly: Another Life Tragically Lost to Immigration Detention
Florence, AZ — The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Detention Watch Network are mourning the tragic loss of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, affectionately known as "Lenchito,” a be...
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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.
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In ONE MONTH, join us in celebrating resistance to repression at the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards!
Celebrate this year's awardees:
🏅 @detentionwatchnetwork.org & Jeanette Vizguerra
🏅 The National Coordinating Roundtable of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners of Argentina
🎟️ TICKETS:
Celebrate this year's awardees:
🏅 @detentionwatchnetwork.org & Jeanette Vizguerra
🏅 The National Coordinating Roundtable of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners of Argentina
🎟️ TICKETS:
Letelier-Moffitt Awards 2025 - Institute for Policy Studies
Join us this year as IPS honors two outstanding champions of human rights and celebrates the work we do along with our allies to advance justice, peace, and dignity for all.
ips-dc.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In ONE MONTH, join us in celebrating resistance to repression at the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards!
Celebrate this year's awardees:
🏅 @detentionwatchnetwork.org & Jeanette Vizguerra
🏅 The National Coordinating Roundtable of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners of Argentina
🎟️ TICKETS:
Celebrate this year's awardees:
🏅 @detentionwatchnetwork.org & Jeanette Vizguerra
🏅 The National Coordinating Roundtable of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners of Argentina
🎟️ TICKETS: