Thread by @PaxChristiNJ

A year ago today we were outside Elberon Development Group's office, the landlords to CoreCivic at the Elizabeth Detention Ctr, holding a teach-in on the history and current conditions there. We demanded ICE #FreeThemAll @rizzo_pubhist facebook.com/whitstrub/vide…

The day before this event, but after a great deal of community pressure, Elberon announced that it would be working to end its lease with CoreCivic. #NoBusinessWithICE njspotlight.com/2020/07/elizab…

2 months earlier, @afscIRP, @nyulaw & @ImmDefense had filed a class action lawsuit to release everyone at the EDC due to dangerous conditions during the pandemic. The demand was to #FreeThemAll. #ReleasesNotTransfers champ.gothamist.com/champ/gothamis…

ICE responded almost immediately by transferring and deporting one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Hector Garcia Mendoza. Hector went missing. The part of Mexico he was deported to was known for violence against migrant and deportees.
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At the time @NJ_Opinion ran a piece comparing ICE to Putin and referred to a letter @RepSires, @RepDonaldPayne, @FrankPallone, @RepBonnie and @BillPascrell were signed questioning ICE's actions. #ReleasesNotTransfers nj.com/opinion/2020/0…

In @MaryAnnKoruth's own opinon piece, published in the @starledger which links to her much longer article "Essential Until Expendable", she makes it clear that Hector's deportation was a brutal form of retaliation by ICE. nj.com/opinion/2021/0…

But @NJ_Opinion & @tomamoran have short memories. They now blame advocates for the actions of ICE. Perhaps it as @whitstrub points out that there's a new @POTUS. However, as he argues, that means that Dems own these recent transfers. #ReleasesNotTransfers nj.com/opinion/2021/0…

What a difference a year makes or in the case of @ECCommissioners, 10 years. That is how long we have been asking them to actively advocate for immigration reform and #ReleasesNotTransfers. Today they publicly released this letter to @SenBooker & @SenatorMenendez

It's been quite a year for changing alliances. Elberon, the landlord for CoreCivic as @MattKatz writes, is arguing in its lawsuit to evict CoreCivic from the EDC. While we still wait on a letter from @SenBooker & @SenMenendez re: #ReleasesNotTransfers gothamist.com/news/ice-jaile…