Detention Watch Network
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A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
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Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
Democratic lawmaker to introduce bill to cripple DHS' ability to detain immigrants
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
nbcnews.to
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
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I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering.
It’s time to start melting ICE.
📣Now more than ever, we need real leaders to act courageously for the rights and dignity of everyone. We welcome @ramirez.house.gov's leadership in introducing the Melt ICE Act to say no more!
No more endless funding for ICE, no more abuse and death at the hands of ICE, no more cruel detention!
No more endless funding for ICE, no more abuse and death at the hands of ICE, no more cruel detention!
Ramirez, Clarke Unveil Legislation to Defund ICE, the Melt ICE Act
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Delia C.
ramirez.house.gov
January 21, 2026 at 6:59 PM
📣Now more than ever, we need real leaders to act courageously for the rights and dignity of everyone. We welcome @ramirez.house.gov's leadership in introducing the Melt ICE Act to say no more!
No more endless funding for ICE, no more abuse and death at the hands of ICE, no more cruel detention!
No more endless funding for ICE, no more abuse and death at the hands of ICE, no more cruel detention!
NEW analysis from DWN’s executive director,
@silkys13.bsky.social on the mass deportation agenda during 2025. The passage of the funding bill allocating $170 billion to immigration enforcement was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy & the Trump admin's aspiring facism.
@silkys13.bsky.social on the mass deportation agenda during 2025. The passage of the funding bill allocating $170 billion to immigration enforcement was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy & the Trump admin's aspiring facism.
After Congress allocated an additional $170 billion for immigration enforcement in July, ICE became the largest law enforcement agency in the country, with a bigger budget than the Bureau of Prisons, FBI, and most militaries in the world.
Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.
truthout.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM
NEW analysis from DWN’s executive director,
@silkys13.bsky.social on the mass deportation agenda during 2025. The passage of the funding bill allocating $170 billion to immigration enforcement was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy & the Trump admin's aspiring facism.
@silkys13.bsky.social on the mass deportation agenda during 2025. The passage of the funding bill allocating $170 billion to immigration enforcement was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy & the Trump admin's aspiring facism.
📅Join us TODAY on Wednesday 1/21 at 5 pm ET for the national community call to demand Congress cut funding for ICE! @humanrightsfirst.org @nilc.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social @amnesty.org
Register here: bit.ly/nofunds4ice
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January 21, 2026 at 3:58 PM
📅Join us TODAY on Wednesday 1/21 at 5 pm ET for the national community call to demand Congress cut funding for ICE! @humanrightsfirst.org @nilc.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social @amnesty.org
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For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.
truthout.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:41 PM
For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism.
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
"If we are seeing that sort of outward extreme violence in broad daylight in the streets of Minneapolis & streets across the country, imagine what people must be facing behind closed doors and behind bars in ICE detention centers,” said Setareh, advocacy director at DWN to @truthout.org.
Deaths in Detention Warn of Horrors Behind ICE’s Prison Walls
At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and four more have already died in ICE custody this year.
truthout.org
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"If we are seeing that sort of outward extreme violence in broad daylight in the streets of Minneapolis & streets across the country, imagine what people must be facing behind closed doors and behind bars in ICE detention centers,” said Setareh, advocacy director at DWN to @truthout.org.
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Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw
January 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to donate groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents. What started with a couple of hundred deliveries a week has quickly swelled into a vast operation involving thousands of volunteers. trib.al/1qT1xMw
📣Join us! We’ve already sent 9,469 letters to Congress, but we need your help to reach representatives in New Hampshire, Washington, Illinois, Arizona, and Texas!
Write your Representatives and tell them to cut ICE funding today! 🔗bit.ly/noicefunding
Write your Representatives and tell them to cut ICE funding today! 🔗bit.ly/noicefunding
Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding!
We need you to take action NOW! Coming into the New Year the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. Currently the proposal on the table includes funding to detain an additiona...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
📣Join us! We’ve already sent 9,469 letters to Congress, but we need your help to reach representatives in New Hampshire, Washington, Illinois, Arizona, and Texas!
Write your Representatives and tell them to cut ICE funding today! 🔗bit.ly/noicefunding
Write your Representatives and tell them to cut ICE funding today! 🔗bit.ly/noicefunding
While communities in Minneapolis & across the country mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was executed by ICE, ICE has revealed that 4 people died in its custody in the first 10 days of the New Year: Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Geraldo Lunas Campos, and Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres.
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
While communities in Minneapolis & across the country mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was executed by ICE, ICE has revealed that 4 people died in its custody in the first 10 days of the New Year: Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Geraldo Lunas Campos, and Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres.
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“Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, previously told Newsweek: ‘Trump’s cruel mass detention expansion is exacerbating the inhumane conditions that are inherent to ICE’s detention system and have been well documented for decades.’”
Four immigrants died in ICE custody within the span of four days last month: www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...
ICE detention centers see four deaths in four days
The latest fatalities push the yearly total close to being the deadliest on record for ICE detention centers.
www.newsweek.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, previously told Newsweek: ‘Trump’s cruel mass detention expansion is exacerbating the inhumane conditions that are inherent to ICE’s detention system and have been well documented for decades.’”
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"The lie they’re telling you is that they’re going after the “worst of the worst,” but we must fight for everyone. The strategy of 'good' immigrant versus 'bad' immigrant ultimately targets all immigrants," says @silkys13.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w...
“We Must Fight for Everyone” for Immigrant Justice
PRA Senior Research Analyst Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss how abolition is the key to a strategy for combating the Trum...
politicalresearch.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"The lie they’re telling you is that they’re going after the “worst of the worst,” but we must fight for everyone. The strategy of 'good' immigrant versus 'bad' immigrant ultimately targets all immigrants," says @silkys13.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w...
🚨JOIN US! From Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, through Dec. 18, International Migrants Day, people across the U.S. are coming together to demand dignity, safety, and freedom for all + denounce immigration raids, detention, and deportations! Host or find an action: afsc.org/action-week
Stronger With Immigrants Week of Action
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December 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨JOIN US! From Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, through Dec. 18, International Migrants Day, people across the U.S. are coming together to demand dignity, safety, and freedom for all + denounce immigration raids, detention, and deportations! Host or find an action: afsc.org/action-week
The @aclu.org has documented more than a dozen cases of pregnant women experiencing medical neglect while detained at Stewart Detention Center and the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center. A woman with a high risk pregnancy was held in solitary confinement. As detention expands, so does its abuses.
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 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The @aclu.org has documented more than a dozen cases of pregnant women experiencing medical neglect while detained at Stewart Detention Center and the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center. A woman with a high risk pregnancy was held in solitary confinement. As detention expands, so does its abuses.
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.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
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.