Thread by @ImmCivilRights

Another human caged by ICE appears to have ended his life while in solitary confinement at a for-profit migrant prison, this time in Louisiana.

This would be the second known in-custody death of the fiscal year, with more than two dozen occurring since the regime took power.

Worth noting that the existence of this facility for ICE imprisonment itself is in direct violation of the appropriations authority Congress gave to ICE when it funded detention operations.

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…

It’s worth asking ourselves what to call prison camps we send people to where they’ve committed no crime, received no due process, and have not been shown to present a flight risk, knowing some number of them will die, and thousands more will suffer
#DetentionKills
#KillDetention

As an attorney who represents the families of more than a half-dozen people who’ve perished in ICE prisons since the regime took power, I would encourage people who, like many of use, are devastated by this tragic news to operatonalize your grief.

Here are some ideas for how:

1. Visit an imprisoned migrant: freedomforimmigrants.org/visitation-net…

Human contact reduces isolation and offers hope. It also connects pain and suffering inside to action and attention outside. Visits bring the horrors people often endure in the darkness to light.

2. Send an imprisoned migrant flowers: flowersontheinside.org. Going there is hard. Intentionally so. These cages are purposefully isolated and unwatched. Sending people flowers helps let everyone know the people inside are not alone.

3. Donate to a bond fund:
There are several great ones, but here’s a start, by @MigrantFreedom freedomforimmigrants.org/national-bond-…

4. Attend an action:
We will not solve this crisis from our phones or our homes, offices, schools, or places of worship. Public actions and demonstrations have been vital in returning democratic accountability to the secretive, for-profit prison industry.
neveragainaction.com

5. Engage in Movement Campaigns:
detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action @DetentionWatch

6. Support community-led legal organizing: learn more by following accounts on this non-exhaustive list of warriors
@aldea_pjc
@AlOtroLado_Org
@BAJItweet
@TransLawCenter
@santafedreamers
@ThinkLawLab
@familiatqlm
@ImmDef
@rapid_defense
@LasAmericasIAC
@elrefugioga
...

@NWDCResistance
@CIYJA
@IE_IYC
@JustFuturesLaw
@ConMijente
@themixnashville
@MaketheRoadNY
@Dreamdefenders
@AdelanteAlabama
@tnimmigrant
@idaho_justice

*us

7. Divest from Caging Humans for Profit: nnirr.org/drupal/prisond…

Folks don’t realize they own a tiny piece of this industry, and thus, this bloodshed. Real estate portfolios like those sold by @Vanguard_Group & @blackrock, public retirement funds like @CalPERS own $CXW #GEO

8. Vote for Structural Change:
Here’s my long-winded take on why we must #AbolishICE, with @karalynum on her pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imm…

An example, from @NeverAgainActn right now:

https://twitter.com/neveragainactn/status/1184253846727602177?s=21

9. Acknowledge the intersectional harm of caging humans for profit:

The current human-cages-for-cash system harms Black migrants, queer and trans folx, DV/trauma survivors, and communities of color while wasting billions each year that could address climate change/clean jobs.