WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid another series of preventable deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, a record-high daily detention population number, and Trump and Congress’ push to drastically increase ICE’s detention budget by $45 billion, or 13 times the current funding level, Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, issued the following statement.
Freedom for Immigrants Launches New Initiative to Disrupt Prison-to-ICE Pipeline
LOS ANGELES — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) today launched Project Keep Away, an initiative devoted to preventing prison-to-immigration detention transfers by empowering community members both inside and outside of prisons with educational resources and programming as well as a live, free helpline available to people inside two California prisons.
'Unprecedented Assault on Our Human Rights': On Day of Action, FFI Decries Expanded Detention and Deportation Operations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As advocates across the country take to the streets today for the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action, anchored by Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) joins those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in demanding the immediate release of community members and an end to the Trump administration's reckless expansion of mass detention and deportations. Nearly 48,000 people are now in ICE custody, the highest number since 2019.
FFI Demands Immediate Release of Mahmoud Khalil
FFI Condemns Hate-Fueled Immigration Legislation, Executive Orders
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to President Trump’s anticipated signing of the Laken Riley Act into law today, and a slew of recent executive orders that seek to scapegoat, detain, and deport immigrants through extremist criminalizing policies and immigration detention expansion, Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, issued the following statement.
Profit Over People: FFI Condemns Private Prison Corporations Cashing in on Immigration Detention
‘We are not backing down:’ FFI statement on Trump’s Reelection
‘This is Biden’s Legacy’: FFI Decries Latest Attack on Asylum System
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put into place this week its final rule of the asylum ban initially rolled out in June, toughening the asylum restrictions and making them harder to be lifted.The following statement is from Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants.