WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new immigration enforcement guidelines, which keeps the mass incarceration and deportation system intact while granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents broad discretion in its decisions to detain and deport immigrants.
Celebrating Over a Decade of Visionary Leadership: Christina Fialho and Christina Mansfield, Co-Founders and Co-Executive Directors of Freedom for Immigrants, to Transition
OAKLAND, CA — Today, Christina Fialho and Christina Mansfield announced they will be transitioning out of their roles as co-executive directors of Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), after over a decade of transformational leadership. Fialho and Mansfield have been working alongside the senior leadership of the organization to prepare for the transition and will continue to support the organization during this time of growth. Layla Razavi and Sierra Kraft will serve as co-interim executive directors while the Board launches a national search for a new executive director.
Use of Toxic Chemicals Endangering Safety, Reproductive Health of Immigrants in Detention
GLADES COUNTY, Fla. – A disturbing investigative report published in Scientific American reveals that officials at a federal immigration detention center in Glades County, Florida, routinely use toxic chemicals at highly dangerous levels, exposing immigrants held at the facility to severe health effects including damage to reproductive health.
‘Detained and Disappeared’: New Report Documents Hundreds of Disappearances in U.S. Immigration Detention System
WASHINGTON, D.C., on International Day of the Disappeared –– In violation of international law, the United States is engaged in a pattern and practice of regularly disappearing immigrants in its federal immigration detention system, according to a startling report published today [link final report] by Freedom for Immigrants (FFI).
Women at Florida Immigration Detention Center File Federal Complaint Over Sexual and Medical Abuse, Toxic Chemical Spray, and Racist Treatment
GLADES COUNTY, Fla. – Today, seven immigrant women held at a remote immigration detention center in Florida filed a complaint with federal officials, shedding light on an appalling pattern of abuses including sexual abuse by guards and a psychiatrist amounting to violations of the Prison Rape Elimination Acts (PREA), exposure to a highly toxic chemical spray, life-threatening medical neglect, violations of COVID-19 safety protocols, and racist and degrading treatment.
In a Historic Move, New Jersey Bans Immigration Detention
Congressional Leaders to Secretary Mayorkas: Close Glades County Detention Center
Eight members of Congress join communities and advocates’ call to shut down immigration detention center in Florida with troubling pattern of abuse
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of eight members of Congress led by Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz today delivered a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calling for the Department to immediately terminate its detention contract with Glades County and close the Glades County Detention Center (GCDC) in Moore Haven, Florida.
‘Egregious and Unlivable’: Immigrants in New Jersey Jail File Civil Rights Complaint Over ICE Assaults and Retaliation
Groups call for civil rights investigation, termination of federal ICE contract, and releases amid human rights abuses at New Jersey immigrant detention center
NEWARK, N.J. – 15 immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody today lodged a multi-individual complaint with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), calling for an investigation into ongoing abuses including medical neglect, violent retaliation, COVID-19 negligence, religious discrimination, sexual assault and overall intolerable conditions at the Bergen County Jail (BCJ) in Bergen County, New Jersey.