San Bernardino, CA – On Thursday, August 13, the Shut Down Adelanto Coalition will hold a digital press conference to release new details in the case of José Tapete, whose deportation was stopped by community advocacy this week but who still remains at Adelanto, where guards are using HDQ Neutral, a cleaning chemical, to retaliate against him and others who speak out on conditions there.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A private prison company’s plan to expand immigration detention by a whopping 350 percent in Kern County was blocked today, after a federal judge ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction requested by Freedom for Immigrants and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC). This follows the judge’s grant of a temporary restraining order on this same matter.

NEW YORK -- On Monday morning, organizations representing the Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition held a press conference to launch a campaign to free them all and present a joint executive order directed to both Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Murphy demanding the states end their complicity with ICE detention while supporting national calls to free everyone from immigration detention.

As the number of COVID-19 cases in ICE detention continues to rise, state officials must take immediate action to save lives.

LOS ANGELES, California -- As part of Freedom for Immigrants commitment to building a world without detention, the organization has launched the Freedom100 Fund -- an impact investment opportunity designed to reunite families separated by the U.S. immigration detention system. There are thousands of people currently behind bars in ICE prisons that could be released to their families, however high bond amounts set by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or immigration judges keep them detained. The current system is inhumane and unsustainable.

What: Zoom press conference immediately prior to federal district court hearing on lawsuits filed by troubled prison corp. GEO Group and the Trump admin. against California’s AB 32, which bans for-profit prisons and detention centers in the state. Advocates will denounce an “illicit scheme” by ICE and prison corporations to evade accountability, highlight the strong constitutional case for AB 32, and call out the COVID-19 crisis in detention.

NEW JERSEY -- After months of action by immigrant rights organizers, the Elberon Development Group has decided to cut ties with their tenant, CoreCivic and their property, the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC), a private immigration detention center that has a long history of inhumane conditions. Advocates continue to press for the immediate closure of the EDC and the immediate release of all people detained there, for Elberon to establish a reparations fund from their rental profits for the individuals and families of those who have been detained at EDC, as well as the release of people from all detention facilities.

CALIFORNIA — Following an April decision by the city of McFarland to approve GEO Group’s request to expand immigration detention by 350 percent in Kern County, Freedom for Immigrants and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) have filed a lawsuit against the city. The city of McFarland’s plans to reuse former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities for the purposes of detaining immigrants flies in the face of sustained opposition by McFarland residents and is in clear violation of California state law.