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.@POTUS @VP @SecMayorkas: We urge you to immediately SHUT DOWN 10 ICE facilities & cancel their contracts! #FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages

🗣️Adelanto & Mesa Verde in CA
🗣️Berks in PA
🗣️Dilley, Karnes & Hutto in TX
🗣️Etowah in AL
🗣️Farmville in VA
🗣️Irwin in GA
🗣️Otero in NM Image
Karim Golding has been detained by ICE for 4+ yrs & is currently detained at the Etowah Detention Center, where he faces retaliation for demanding freedom.

His story shows the inhumanity of detention & why Biden must #ShutDownEtowah.

#FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages #FreeKarim Image
In 2020, ICE's transfer of 74 people to the Farmville Detention Center contributed to the largest COVID outbreak in the detention system, with 93% of people testing positive.

Including James Hill who died weeks later. #FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/ic…
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The 10 immigration detention centers communities are calling on the Biden administration to close down represent every single detention center where immigrants needlessly suffer. This list represents a beginning to dismantling ICE detention, a #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages.⁣
The Adelanto Detention Center’s record is rife with abuse. This month, Martin Vargas tragically died, 3 days after ICE released him from the CA facility after he suffered from a stroke & COVID-19 inside.

#FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages latimes.com/california/sto…
Why #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages is calling to #ShutDownAdelanto:

7 people have died at Adelanto since it opened. Just last yr, people reported that GEO Group used a toxic chemical disinfectant inside the facility, causing people to develop bloody noses, burning eyes
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Today, communities across the country and #CommunitiesNotCages campaign members took direct action to demand the Biden administration shut down the #FirstTen detention centers. Read and RT this thread to see the powerful banner drops and actions across the country. 👇
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