Thread by @MigrantFreedom

An essential component of ending immigration detention is understanding its scope & methods of expansion, especially as the Trump admin calls for a bigger budget to expand detention #DefundHate

This is why we are launching "Detention In Your District":
freedomforimmigrants.org/news/2020/2/13…

#DIYD is a series of informational briefs highlighting ICE detention centers in Congressional districts throughout the country.

Briefs are currently available for 24 facilities in 10 Congressional districts for: CA-51, LA-5, GA-3, AL-4, TX-16, NY-27, VA-5, NM-2, AZ-1, & NJ-8.

We chose to focus on these districts first because they are either facing unprecedented detention expansion or have been sites of concerning human rights abuses historically.

We will continue to add more Congressional districts to this list throughout 2020.

Each #DIYD brief will provide crucial information such as facility capacity, resources for advocates and detained persons, risk of expansion, and documented abuses.

We are hoping that #DIYD, in conjunction with additional resources in our interactive map of immigrant detention in the United States, will provide advocates & policymakers with the tools they need to make changes in their communities, and to end immigration detention nationally.

You can access #DIYD resources on the same page as our interactive map on immigration detention:
freedomforimmigrants.org/map