People are uniting to protect immigrant communities by calling to shut down existing detention centers & blocking ICE proposals to build new ones.

@Potus @VP @SecMayorkas We urge you to close down the #FirstTen facilities this year.
.@Potus @vp @SecMayorkas With ICE detention #'s at its lowest in 20 yrs, the # of people in ICE custody should trend down as ppl are released & facilities are closed. We urge you to close the #FirstTen detention centers & cancel their contracts. #CommunitiesNotCages
.@POTUS @VP @SecMayorkas Yesterday, communities across the US took action to call on the Biden administration to shut down the #FirstTen detention centers & cancel their contracts during your first year in office. #CommunitiesNotCages

Hear our demands!
.@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

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#ShutDownAdelanto thread @IC4IJ @MigrantFreedom @IE_IYC @im4humanintegrity @nikkeiprogressives
@ClueJustice @LAneveragain @ACLU_SoCal @DetentionWatch @chirla_org @Earthjustice @immdef_lawcenter @LBIRC562 #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages
There is a health crisis at the local Adelanto ICE jail. ICE & GEO fail to follow sanitary food and water guidelines causing an H.pylori outbreak @SBCountyPH Act now before it's too late.
#ShutDownAdelanto #FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages
@GEOGroup has failed to follow @SBCountyPH safety recommendations. Instead the unsanitary conditions expose immigrants to H.pylori and put immigrants' lives at risk. @POTUS shut it down once and for all! #ShutDownAdelanto #FirstTen #CommunitiesNotCages
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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.

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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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Biden has yet to address ICE’s detention system.

2020 was the deadliest fiscal yr in ICE custody since 2005. W/ detention #'s currently at their lowest in 20 yrs, #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages underscores the urgent need to close detention centers & release people now
#FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages is demanding the shut down of 10 detention centers in Biden's 1st year. #FirstTen is the next phase of @DetentionWatch’s #CommunitiesNotCages campaign to shut down ICE facilities, stop the expansion/construction of new ones and #EndDetention
The #FirstTen detention centers are emblematic of how the immigration detention system as a whole is inherently abusive, unjust and fatally flawed beyond repair. #CommunitiesNotCages
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