Freedom for Immigrants and Advocate Visitors with Immigrants in Detention (AVID) in the Chihuahuan Desert are elated that Ajay Kumar and Gurjant Singh have both been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in El Paso, Texas and are free to pursue their asylum cases free from the confines of immigration detention. They both faced over a year of prolonged detention.

As House Judiciary Members Hear Testimony on Expansion of ICE Detention, Now is the Time for Congress to Cut Funding for Abusive System

During a briefing with members of Congress, the National Immigrant Justice Center, Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants, and the American Civil Liberties Union called for routine visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jails in their districts and states.

Freedom for Immigrants issued a cease and desist letter yesterday to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the agency’s latest attack on the organization’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

Over 50 family members of dozens of men on hunger strike in Louisiana immigration detention facilities will be gathering in New Orleans on Monday, August 12, at 8 am in front of the ICE Field Office to protest their indefinite and abusive detention. 

From Texas to Louisiana to Florida, detained individuals demand due process, an end to indefinite detention, and release to their families and community

Freedom for Immigrants is excited to launch an interactive map of U.S. immigration detention, coinciding with the reintroduction of the Detention Oversight Not Expansion (DONE) Act by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). 

Freedom for Immigrants is excited to be featured in the latest season of the Netflix hit show Orange Is The New Black and to be one of 8 non-profits benefitting from The Poussey Washington Fund.