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🧵 #Thread: 3 mo. ago we launched a #COVID19 Hotline to document abuses in ICE prisons. Since then, we received nearly 10k calls.

We just published our latest report analyzing data from the Hotline & media reports. Here’s what we found 👇 #FreeThemAll freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19
Since our last update, ICE officials announced two additional deaths in custody.

Onoval Perez-Montufa
Luis Sanchez-Perez

Rest in Power

#FreeThemAll
ICE continued to transfer people between its facilities, including to & from facilities with large known concentrations of #COVID19.

By ICE’s own admission, it has transferred people with positive cases of #COVID19.

This is a reckless process that must end.
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HAPPENING NOW: The #FourHorseman of the private prison industry are testifying before Congress on how they have responded to #COVID19 in immigrant prisons.

Follow this #thread for highlights 👇

#DetentionKills #DefundHate
homeland.house.gov/activities/hea…
"For fiscal year 2020, Congress appropriated approx $3.1 billion for more than 45,000 single adult and family detention beds [...] Over 80% of these beds are operated by private contractors"

-@RepKathleenRice

#DefundHate #DetentionKills
The negligence of ICE and private prison companies has resulted in two in custody deaths since the start of the #COVID19 pandemic. Congress was notified of a potential THIRD death today in Florida

This requires IMMEDIATE attention if we want to keep everyone safe #DetentionKills
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