@migrantfreedom.bsky.social
We’re abolitionists working to end immigration incarceration by organizing with and following the leadership of detained immigrants. #FreeThemAll
Learn more: https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org
Learn more: https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org
Officials at the privately-run Farmville Detention Center in VA are retaliating against individuals for protesting rotten and inedible food. Read accounts from the inside in our joint statement ⬇️
#ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
#ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
New Reports of Rotten Food with Worms at Farmville Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants
FARMVILLE, Va. — On Sunday, October 19, people detained at Farmville Detention Center reported evidence of worms in their food. When people detained brought this up to staff in the detention center...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Officials at the privately-run Farmville Detention Center in VA are retaliating against individuals for protesting rotten and inedible food. Read accounts from the inside in our joint statement ⬇️
#ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
#ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
ICE is callously jeopardizing the health and safety of pregnant people in detention, denying critical prenatal care in already horrific conditions. As FFI Organizing Director Amanda Díaz told @theintercept.com, even basic medical care is hard to come by.
theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
theintercept.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ICE is callously jeopardizing the health and safety of pregnant people in detention, denying critical prenatal care in already horrific conditions. As FFI Organizing Director Amanda Díaz told @theintercept.com, even basic medical care is hard to come by.
theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
We mourn the loss of Huabing Xie and extend our deepest sympathies to his loved ones.
Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Advocates mourn another loss of life to ICE detention under Trump — record number of ICE deaths within a calendar year — Freedom for Immigrants
IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. — Freedom for Immigrants, Imperial Liberation Collaborative, and Detention Watch Network are mourning the death of Huabing Xie who died in ICE custody on September 29 after be...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We mourn the loss of Huabing Xie and extend our deepest sympathies to his loved ones.
Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
ICE is subjecting a growing number of our community members to solitary confinement — a known weapon of psychological torture — inside secretive immigration detention centers.
Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...
Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...
‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump
A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.
www.themarshallproject.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ICE is subjecting a growing number of our community members to solitary confinement — a known weapon of psychological torture — inside secretive immigration detention centers.
Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...
Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...
🚨🚨 In the roughly two weeks since the California City Correctional Facility secretly opened as an immigration detention center without proper permits, roughly 500 people are already detained in dangerous conditions.
Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Private Prison Corporation Defying California Law at Unpermitted Immigration Detention Center — Freedom for Immigrants
CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service at the California City Correct...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨🚨 In the roughly two weeks since the California City Correctional Facility secretly opened as an immigration detention center without proper permits, roughly 500 people are already detained in dangerous conditions.
Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
“Immigration detention functions as an expansion of America’s racist prison system and is inherently anti-Black," says FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández in a new statement responding to the Trump admin's use of the infamous Angola prison for ICE.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
FFI: Shut Down Angola — for ICE, for Everyone! — Freedom for Immigrants
NEW ORLEANS — Following the Trump administration’s announcement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin detaining people at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary as a tactic t...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“Immigration detention functions as an expansion of America’s racist prison system and is inherently anti-Black," says FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández in a new statement responding to the Trump admin's use of the infamous Angola prison for ICE.
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
More ICE ankle shackling = more harm, more enforcement. Not freedom.
“It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors
A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
More ICE ankle shackling = more harm, more enforcement. Not freedom.
“It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda
The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵
The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵
Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump
www.prisonpolicy.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda
The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵
The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵
Is your loved one lost in immigration detention? See our full toolkit here: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/toolkit-lost...
¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...
¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...
July 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Is your loved one lost in immigration detention? See our full toolkit here: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/toolkit-lost...
¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...
¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...
Our executive director Laura Hernández recently spoke with @prismreports.org for a new feature on our Project Keep Away initiative!
We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization.
prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...
We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization.
prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...
New helpline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline’
Freedom for Immigrants recently launched Project Keep Away, a first-of-its-kind hotline, in two California women’s prisons
prismreports.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Our executive director Laura Hernández recently spoke with @prismreports.org for a new feature on our Project Keep Away initiative!
We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization.
prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...
We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization.
prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...
We’re #hiring a Communications Coordinator! Freedom for Immigrants is searching for a passionate advocate with first-hand knowledge of the immigration and/or incarceration systems to join our team.
Learn more and apply:
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July 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We’re #hiring a Communications Coordinator! Freedom for Immigrants is searching for a passionate advocate with first-hand knowledge of the immigration and/or incarceration systems to join our team.
Learn more and apply:
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Learn more and apply:
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💥 Introducing Project Keep Away, our new initiative that empowers communities to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within! ⛓️
Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...
Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...
Project Keep Away — Freedom for Immigrants
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
💥 Introducing Project Keep Away, our new initiative that empowers communities to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within! ⛓️
Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...
Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...
📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters!
Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!
Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.
Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!
Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.
July 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters!
Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!
Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.
Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!
Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.
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Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, HRW is featuring activists who are fighting for human rights.
Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.
Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.
July 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, HRW is featuring activists who are fighting for human rights.
Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.
Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.
Trump’s anti-immigration bill is a devastating assault on our livelihoods. This monstrous bill will drastically expand the immigration detention system to an unprecedented scale, resulting in immeasurable harm to hundreds of thousands.
Our statement:
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our statement:
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
FFI Decries Passage of Heartbreaking Anti-Immigration Bill — Freedom for Immigrants
Trump’s spending and anti-immigration bill slashes tens of billions of dollars from health care, food assistance, education programs, and other vital services to provide a staggering $150 billion for ...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trump’s anti-immigration bill is a devastating assault on our livelihoods. This monstrous bill will drastically expand the immigration detention system to an unprecedented scale, resulting in immeasurable harm to hundreds of thousands.
Our statement:
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our statement:
www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
The Senate just voted to expand the immigration detention budget by 13 fold, which would fuel detention to levels of horror never before seen and undoubtedly lead to more deaths.
Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
More Detention Means More Deaths, Family Separation, and Private Prison Profits — Freedom for Immigrants
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 dr...
www.freedomforimmigrants.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Senate just voted to expand the immigration detention budget by 13 fold, which would fuel detention to levels of horror never before seen and undoubtedly lead to more deaths.
Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...
A damning, must-read investigation by @wired.com examines the brutal and deadly medical abuse imposed by the government against our neighbors and loved ones inside immigration detention. Read here: www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A damning, must-read investigation by @wired.com examines the brutal and deadly medical abuse imposed by the government against our neighbors and loved ones inside immigration detention. Read here: www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
Trump has paid the president of El Salvador over $5 million to disappear U.S. migrants to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), known for abysmal conditions and abuses. By labeling certain migrants as terrorists, Trump continues to brutalize immigrants. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Trump has paid the president of El Salvador over $5 million to disappear U.S. migrants to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), known for abysmal conditions and abuses. By labeling certain migrants as terrorists, Trump continues to brutalize immigrants. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump
Immigration detention is a machine of mass state violence, often carried out by private detention corporations who pocket billions of dollars.
As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Immigrant-detention officer charged with choking handcuffed migrant
The private security officer is accused of putting his hands around the detainee’s neck and throat and slamming him against walls.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Immigration detention is a machine of mass state violence, often carried out by private detention corporations who pocket billions of dollars.
As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Rumeysa Ozturk is free!
"Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk.
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
"Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk.
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
Rumeysa Ozturk shares concern for hundreds of women still in ICE custody in Louisiana
The Tufts University graduate student, who is back in Massachusetts six weeks after being detained by federal agents in Somerville, highlighted the roughly 900 women detained at the South Louisiana IC...
www.nbcboston.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Rumeysa Ozturk is free!
"Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk.
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
"Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk.
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
Ximena Arias-Cristobal is facing deportation after police pulled over the wrong person. All charges have been dropped, but Ximena is still detained and at risk of deportation despite coming to Georgia at just 4 years old. ICE has no place in our communities. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...
Georgia teen arrested by ICE faces deportation, despite dismissed traffic charges: "My life is here"
In her first interview since being detained by ICE, Ximena Arias Cristobal told CBS News said her biggest worry is not being able to stay in Georgia.
www.cbsnews.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ximena Arias-Cristobal is facing deportation after police pulled over the wrong person. All charges have been dropped, but Ximena is still detained and at risk of deportation despite coming to Georgia at just 4 years old. ICE has no place in our communities. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...
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The arrest of Mayor Baraka is an escalation from ICE.
New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.
New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.
@replamonica.bsky.social: “If they can treat three members of Congress like that, just imagine how they treat people on the street every day.”
That's right: If they would rather ARREST THE MAYOR OF NEWARK than allow him to see the conditions of those detained, what does that tell us?
SHAME.
That's right: If they would rather ARREST THE MAYOR OF NEWARK than allow him to see the conditions of those detained, what does that tell us?
SHAME.
New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE facility
The Democrat, who is also running for governor, was involved in a scrum with three members of Congress seeking a tour of Delaney Hall.
www.politico.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The arrest of Mayor Baraka is an escalation from ICE.
New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.
New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.
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Communities in NJ are making the demand clear: shut Delaney Hall down! We commend Mayor Baraka for joining the people of NJ to reject Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages:
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages:
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
May 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Communities in NJ are making the demand clear: shut Delaney Hall down! We commend Mayor Baraka for joining the people of NJ to reject Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages:
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages:
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
ICE has long weaponized transfers of people in its custody as a harsh form of retaliation, torture, and labor trafficking. A new investigation by @bloomberg.com reveals the Trump admin is increasing its rate of out-of-state transfers: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Rising Cost of ICE Flying Immigrants to Far-Flung Detention Centers
The increase in long-distance transfers makes it harder to fight deportation and boosts taxpayer expense.
www.bloomberg.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
ICE has long weaponized transfers of people in its custody as a harsh form of retaliation, torture, and labor trafficking. A new investigation by @bloomberg.com reveals the Trump admin is increasing its rate of out-of-state transfers: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
We mourn the lives of those needlessly taken too soon by the deadly immigration detention system 🕯️
April 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We mourn the lives of those needlessly taken too soon by the deadly immigration detention system 🕯️