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Mexico’s detention network is human rights disaster - and U.S. policy is making it worse
At all times, and certainly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the governments of Mexico and the U.S. must protect the rights of migrants. In the current context of a global pandemic, both governments must halt enforcement actions and deportations, and release people from detention facilities where their lives are endangered by overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.
La 72, Franciscan Network on Migration and others, denounce Mexican immigration authorities after death in custody
Héctor Rolando Barrientos Dardón died on Tuesday during a fire at the Tenosique Migration Station, an immigrant detention facility near Mexico’s border with Guatemala in the state of Tabasco. His death occurred during a protest by several men who were denouncing their ongoing detention in the overcrowded facility, a situation which puts their lives at risk in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day Five
We are on the second to last day of Detention Watch Networks’s #FreeThemAll National Week of Digital Action, March 30 – April 4, to demand the liberation of all people in immigration detention – please keep up the pressure!
Day 5 – Friday, April 3: Care not Cages: Public Health Department Accountability Day
Take Action: #FreeThemAll and End Deportation Flights
#FreeThemAll week of Action Continues today
Drawing connections between immigrant detention and mass incarceration.
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 3: Congress
Day 3 – Wednesday, April 1: #DefundHate and #FreeThemAll
#FreeThemAll Week of Action, Day 2: Trans Day of Visibility
Day 2 – Tuesday, March 31: Let Our People Go/Trans Day of Visibility (From Detention Watch Network)
#FreeThemAll Week of Action: Monday, ICE Field Offices
This is the first day of a cyber-week of action to get people held in immigrant detention released, and to get Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend enforcement and removal operations. We have written several background articles on the campaign, and the dangers of incarceration for people at this time.
Haiti and COVID-19
From Rikers Island to Adelanto #FreeThemAll
We are running out of time to save the lives of those incarcerated in the world's largest network of prisons, jails, and detention sites. There are 2 million people incarcerated in the United States - more than any other country on the planet. They are all at risk.
To Contain COVID-19, We Must Tear Down Some Walls
"Viruses know no borders and they don't care about your ethnicity or the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program.