Friend,

The Trump administration’s racist and inhumane immigration raids are
tearing families apart, destroying communities, and have already directly
contributed to at least one death this year.(1) The irreversible human
toll of these attacks on immigrant communities is devastating, but so is
the windfall for the private prison industry.(2)

CoreCivic -- one of the largest private prison companies in the US, which
operates four prisons in California that have been cited for numerous
"serious failings" by California Attorney General Rob Bonta -- is
benefitting from that windfall.(3,4) The private prison company contracted
to run Trump’s illegally constructed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida,
which is meant to house as many as 5,000 undocumented people from all over
the country in unsafe conditions.(5)

CoreCivic contributed $500,000 and its CEO donated another $300,000
personally to Donald Trump.(6)

[ [link removed] ]This Prime Day, let's stand with workers instead of billionaire cWe
know that the Trump administration is rotten to the core, and this
pay-to-play move is just the latest in a long line of disgraceful actions.
Will you add your name to our petition calling on Congress to investigate
the contracting process for the Florida facility?

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Indigenous organizers in Florida have raised the alarm around the flagrant
violation of the tribal sovereignty of the Miccosukee and Seminole Nations
who live on the land surrounding the facility.(7) Environmental activists
are calling out the catastrophic ecological impacts of the facility and
its construction.(8) And immigration advocates are highlighting the
inhumane conditions of housing people in unsafe, unprotected tents in the
Everglades.(9)

Each of these violations should be enough to shut down the facility, but
taken in total, it shows the clear disregard this administration has for
indigenous land rights, environmental impacts, human life, and basic
decency.

The Florida facility is a blueprint for similar detention centers
nationwide, including an ICE and CoreCivic plan to transform a closed
state prison in California City into a center that many advocates are
opposing.(10) However, we have seen public opinion shifting against
immigration enforcement, which presents an opportunity for us to pressure
Congress to launch an investigation.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Congress must investigate the construction of
“Alligator Alcatraz,” including the pay-to-play nature of the contracting
process.

Thank you for being in the fight!

–Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the
Courage team)

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