Thread by @MigrantFreedom

Happening now: Black immigrant justice leaders and community advocates are holding a press conference on the importance of defending #AB32 from GEO Group.

Follow along here 👇

#DivestFromCages
#InvestInCommunities

"We have seen the terrifying conditions & outbreaks that have occurred in prisons and immigrant detention centers. #AB32 is an important piece of legislation that would allow us the opportunity to combat the ways that incarceration continues to expand."

- @arreenitta

"We know that there are alternatives that aren't based in a carceral solution." 🙌

- @arreenitta

#DivestFromCages
#InvestInCommunities

"#AB32 was and continues to be a public health solution [...] Public prisons have no place in California, the public's health depends on it."

- @amberakemipiatt, @HumanImpact_HIP

#CommunitiesNotCages

"A reminder that when we are talking about who is safe, entire communities are not safe when the expansion of jails and police are all connected and all target Black and Brown communities."

-@arreenitta

#CommunitiesNotCages

"During this pandemic and this moment of #BlackLivesMatter, we all have a position to play.

We are all on the same team fighting a common adversary: racist private prisons."

- Alfred Aboya of the @CamAmerCouncil

#CommunitiesNotCages

"The impact that detention had on my mental health has been monumental. I deal with it every day."

- Humberto Hernandez, formerly detained at Adelanto

#CommunitiesNotCages
#AbolishDetention

Humberto cont: "Adelanto and GEO cut down on cost anyway they can. Medical health is one of them. It took me 3 weeks to see a doctor for a skin condition I contracted in detention. GEO is very negligent is about the treatment they offer because they are motivated by profit."

"I was in Mesa Verde for 11 months & not one time did I see a janitor come in to clean. They offered us $1/day for volunteering to work. $1/day when it costs $2.89 for a serving of rice."

- Charles Joseph, a community organizer formerly detained at Mesa Verde

#CommunityNotCages