Washington, D.C. – In solidarity with the millions of Black people and allies who have taken to the street to defend Black lives and demand justice for those who have been killed by police, the Defund Hate Coalition issued the following statement:

Freedom for Immigrants stands with Black communities across the United States who have risen up to demand justice and transformation in the face of the continued extrajudicial killing of Black people. We condemn the use of both militarized law enforcement and the military to violently quash dissent. We stand with the call that Black-led organizations and activists have made to #DefundPolice and invest in community-based, anti-violence programs, trauma-informed services, and restorative justice programming.

Washington, DC — Today, House Democrats hosted a virtual forum on the “response” by Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE) to the COVID-19 pandemic and current conditions in ICE detention. This hearing comes a week after the death of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, who was detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center, and after a federal judge, earlier this month, described ICE as acting with “deliberate indifference” to the condition of people detained in three south florida detention centers.

05.11.2020 - Today, an alliance of key criminal justice, immigrant rights, and public health organizations released The Budget to Save Lives, a detailed proposal highlighting the urgent public health need for the California 2020-21 budget to prioritize decarceration efforts. The package comes as Governor Newsom prepares to release the May revision to the state budget amid a record shortfall caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

2020.5.7 - In the wake of the preventable death yesterday of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejía from COVID-19, the Dignity not Detention coalition issued the following statement.

We mourn the tragic and needless death of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, a human being trapped in the systematically abusive Otay Mesa Detention Facility, managed by for-profit corporation CoreCivic for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, Freedom for Immigrants has launched a series of tools that track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) response to the virus and conditions within its jails and prisons.

Washington, DC — The Defund Hate Coalition issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s request for massive funding increases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in response to COVID-19:

WASHINGTON — Over 250 national, state, and local advocacy groups and organizations urged Congress to dramatically reduce the budgets of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and to enact strong measures to prevent the Trump administration from diverting additional funds from unrelated government accounts for immigrant detention and border wall construction, in a letter sent today to congressional leaders.