ACTIVISM: Shut Down Detention Centers: Join the #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages Week of Action, March 22-26 via @DetentionWatch
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
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TAKE ACTION:
Join Detention Watch Network's #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages Week of Action - March 22nd-26th
Follow @DetentionWatch
Support anti-detention state legislation in Maryland, New Mexico, & Washington
EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE:
‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center (Law & Crime)
“A SILENT PANDEMIC”: Nurse at ICE Facility Blows the Whistle on Coronavirus Dangers (The Intercept)
COVID-19 Outbreak Reported at Otero County Prison Facility (US News & World Report)
New Report Documents Systemic Abuse at a New Mexico Immigrant Detention Center (Innovation Law Lab)
Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers (NBC News)
Op-Ed: Why abuse and neglect of immigrants proliferate in ICE detention (LA Times)
A Cage is Still a Cage: President Biden Must End U.S. Detention of Children and Families (TIME)
Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman
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| 0:00.0 | Check out the big show today to get informed and angry. |
| 0:02.7 | If you already are, here's what you can do about it. |
| 0:04.9 | Today's activism shut down detention centers, first 10 to communities not cages. |
| 0:11.0 | A cage by any other name is still a freaking cage. |
| 0:14.5 | It doesn't matter what you call it or who's in the White House. |
| 0:17.4 | America's archaic and inhumane immigration system began decades ago and today is built |
| 0:21.6 | on a network of 200 barbaric detention centers across the country, managed by money-hungry, |
| 0:26.8 | contractors, and ICE. |
| 0:28.4 | An agency with such a vile history of violence, misogyny, neglect, and racism, its very existence |
| 0:33.6 | should be a crime against humanity. |
| 0:35.7 | Trump took advantage of this already broken and cruel system and added his own brand of evil. |
| 0:40.3 | But until Biden does something bold and transformational to show he's not okay with the status |
| 0:44.4 | quo, we are in for more nice sounding renaming and shuffling people's lives around on a spreadsheet. |
| 0:50.0 | That's why the immigrant rights organization detention watch network is planning a week |
| 0:53.8 | of action, March 22nd to 26th, to demand the beginning of the end of immigration detention |
| 0:59.5 | in the United States. |
| 1:01.2 | The first 10 is the next phase of detention watch networks, communities not cages campaign |
| 1:06.2 | launched in 2018. |
| 1:08.0 | First 10 demands that Biden shut down 10 of the most notorious ICE immigration detention |
| 1:12.8 | facilities in the first year of his administration and end detention contracts. |
| 1:17.8 | As detention watch puts it, quote, these 10 centers are emblematic of how the immigration |
| 1:22.3 | detention system as a whole is inherently abusive, unjust, and fatally flawed beyond repair. |
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