Thread by @ErikaAndiola

My friend and fellow activist, @Eduardo4Action will be deported today 😔. Why? Because he didn't have his wallet to pay $27 fricken dollars for a taxi ride. He spent 3 weeks in solitary confinement and more than 100 days in detention. This is our reality. This is why we fight.

Here's what Eduardo had to say: "For many years I have advocated for the civil rights of the most vulnerable in our country, I have experienced the shortcomings and inhumanities of our immigration system in mind, body & spirit, but I sincerely never imagined the extent of the...

...inhumanities committed against immigrants in our prison industrial complex.

This prison industrial complex has robbed me of my physical health, it has violently damaged my fighting spirit, and it continues to open my mind to see too many inhumanities.

I can't possibly describe the robbing of hope from inmates who are detained for the most petty violations. I have experienced and witnessed unbearable treatment and pain like that of pregnant mothers who are detained just a block away from me in the detention centers I've been in

I cannot possibly describe the sucking away of the spirit and best wishes for their future of people whose one mistake takes them into a spiraling inferno where their cries go on for days, where the necessities of specially abled people go unheard and where the most basic...

...of individual needs are unmet.

This process has taken away much of my ambition to make a better world through my actions and has reduced them to small expectations. There are days in which my desire to fight for access to healthcare is reduced to an expectation...

for what will be next meal, would I have oatmeal? Or will I have a sweet apple? This is how all of us, more than 2 million prisoners substitute our dreams and hopes the longer we stay in jail.

My dreams and hopes - that took years to form fighting in the streets for universal healthcare, access to education, and amnesty for all immigrants - are still inside and they burn with a passion.

But I long for the day I can come outside and continue this fight."