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28 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: We just sent DHS Secretary Mayorkas a letter calling for the closure of 39 ICE detention facilities around the country.

It's time for DHS to shrink this cruel, inhumane, and unnecessary system.

aclu.org/press-releases…
Fiscal year 2020 was the deadliest year in ICE detention since 2005.

We saw reports of increased solitary confinement, sexual abuse, forced sterilization, and an utter failure to protect people from COVID-19.

But the problems with ICE detention are systemic and deeply rooted.
Detention numbers are at their lowest in 20 years. There are a quarter of the people detained on average each day today than at the system’s peak in 2019.

Yet ICE is wasting over $1 million a day on guaranteed minimum bed space that isn’t being used.

npr.org/2021/04/01/982…
The US has long provided a home for immigrants and people seeking safety. The mass detention of immigrants is antithetical to our laws and values.

This administration can shrink this system and end our nation’s newest system of mass incarceration of Black and Brown people.
Send your message to Secretary Mayorkas, urging him to shut down these facilities and shrink the architecture that has been used to abuse and traumatize immigrants.

action.aclu.org/send-message/s…

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