Freedom for Immigrants is deeply alarmed by a report released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General, which found “serious issues relating to safety, security, and environmental health that require ICE’s immediate attention” at the Essex County Correctional Facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

The president’s audacity to plan to declare a national emergency just to get his border wall is a reckless use of executive power.

It is unconscionable to give in to the President’s demands at the expense of immigrant communities across the country.

Today, Freedom for Immigrants relaunched IMMPRINT, its online media outlet, which focuses on news about immigration detention, investigative reporting, and storytelling.

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a federal budget amendment introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal and drafted with the support of Freedom for Immigrants to halt the growth of U.S. immigration detention. Specifically, the amendment to the FY19 supplemental appropriations prohibits the government from transferring disaster relief funds to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purpose of building or expanding immigration detention facilities.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) re-introduced a federal budget amendment that would halt the growth of U.S. immigration detention by prohibiting the government from transferring funds to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purpose of building or expanding immigration detention facilities.

President Trump is holding the country hostage over a border wall that is entirely unnecessary and serves no purpose other than to further divide us in the midst of a crisis manufactured by his own administration.

The Trump administration’s new policy forcing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they await their immigration proceedings flies in the face of American values and is clearly fueled by an anti-immigrant, white supremacist agenda.