Washington, D.C.—Today, September 12th, over a hundred immigrant rights advocates from across the country are heading to Capitol Hill for a National Day of Advocacy, demanding members of Congress cut funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in upcoming budget negotiations. Communities with the Defund Hate Campaign are meeting with over 40 congressional offices virtually, in their home districts, and D.C. with a simple demand: divest from abusive, deadly, anti-Black and brown immigration enforcement agencies and redirect billions of dollars to the well-being of all communities.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Senate Committee on Appropriations released the proposed spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2023, allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

BAKER COUNTY, FL — 15 people either currently or formerly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Baker County Detention Center (Baker) today filed a federal civil rights complaint, calling for releases, an immediate closure of the detention facility and an investigation amid ongoing and rampant human rights abuses including excessive use of force, racism and retaliation.

MIAMI — Following news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declined to extend its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention contract with Glades County, the Shut Down Glades Coalition celebrates the following five wins achieved by sustained pressure over the past year and a half in its fight to close Glades County Detention Center:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States today issued an opinion allowing the Biden administration to end “Remain in Mexico,” an unlawful, Trump-era policy that has resulted in mass human suffering and abuses against people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The following statement is from Andrea Carcamo, policy director with Freedom for Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) today launched its Detention Digest, a new report to be released quarterly, documenting human rights abuses committed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention throughout the Spring of 2022. The report also includes examples of internal resistance and organizing by people in detention, in addition to examples of how immigration detention affects immigrant communities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced the reinstatement of social visitation at detention facilities, following pressure from a national advocacy campaign led by a coalition of immigrants in detention, local detention visitation groups and immigrant rights organizations across the immigration detention abolition movement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration today announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will terminate its detention contract with the Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama, in addition to reducing its use of three other immigration jails across the South.