SPOTLIGHT

OUR WORK

The U.S. has the largest immigration detention system in the world. We work to close detention centers and win freedom and dignity for our communities.

On any given day, tens of thousands of adults and families are detained in immigrant detention centers across the U.S. They are denied access to a court-appointed attorney, a free phone call, or a speedy trial. Many of them are subjected to medical neglect, sexual and physical assault, solitary confinement, and other human rights abuses. Roughly 90% of adults in detention are held private prisons, and the rest are locked up in county and city jails, all of which profit off their inhumane incarceration.

  • FFI’s National Immigration Detention Hotline — the nation’s largest free and confidential detention hotline — is crucial to our work of building community and collective power with people inside detention centers. Learn more.

  • Project Keep Away (PKA) disrupts the prison-to-ICE pipeline as we organize for the abolition of all prisons and detention facilities. Learn more.

  • Our National Immigration Detention Map serves as vital abolitionist infrastructure, designed to support families, loved ones, and community members directly impacted by immigration detention. Learn more.

  • The FFI Commissary Fund is a form of mutual aid, depositing money directly into individuals’ commissary accounts at detention centers across the country. Learn more.

  • We advance our mission of collective liberation through narrative change projects and strategic media campaigns. Learn more.

we’re building a grassroots movement to abolish detention, and we need everyone in this fight

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WHO WE ARE

OUR IMPACT

Our groundbreaking initiatives like the National Immigration Detention Hotline and Project Keep Away build power with incarcerated people as we fight for freedom. Through our organizing, narrative change and storytelling, and other advocacy efforts, we advance our mission to end immigration detention. Learn more.

OUR VISION

We’re an immigrant-led, abolitionist organization devoted to freeing our people from the bonds of jails, prisons, and detention centers. Abolition is not simply about eradicating the profit-driven incarceration system — it’s about building the life-affirming care we all need to lead dignified lives. Learn more.

LATEST NEWS

News & Updates
FFI Demands Citizenship for TPS Holders and Opening of Asylum to All Following SCOTUS Rulings

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following a series of Supreme Court rulings that affirm birthright citizenship but allow the Trump administration to terminate TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Haitians and Syrians and deny migrants their right to seek asylum, Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, issued the following statement. 

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‘ICE detention is as bad as it sounds. I’ve been living it for 2 years’: New Op-ed by Brady Tillett Exposes ICE and CoreCivic, Calls for Freedom, Fairness, and Human Dignity

LOS ANGELES — Brady Tillett, an asylum seeker and community leader detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the California City Detention Facility in Kern County, today released a new op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times, exposing ICE’s inhumane treatment and calling for an overhaul to the corrupt and profit-driven U.S. immigration system. 

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INTERACTIVE DETENTION MAP

Our new detention map, tracking more than 200 detention facilities in the U.S., is designed to support families and community members directly impacted by immigration detention, as well as movement organizers fighting to end detention.