[ [link removed] ]Pramila Jayapal
John,
So far in Trump’s second term, ICE has locked up an unprecedented 66,000
people — the vast majority of whom have no criminal record at all — in
what has become the largest for-profit incarceration system in America:
the immigrant incarceration industrial complex, sometimes called immigrant
“detention.”
People are being kidnapped off the streets, disappeared into for-profit
detention centers, and shuffled from facility to facility so their
families and lawyers can’t find them. The for-profit companies that run
these jails donated tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign, and
now are reaping huge profits from the unprecedented flow of $45 billion of
taxpayer dollars to expand mass detentions.
These immigrant incarceration facilities dehumanize immigrants with
subhuman unsanitary conditions, freezing temperatures and no access to
medical care or even lawyers. At least 225 judges across the country
(including 23 appointed by Trump) have already ruled that these tactics
violate due process. Don’t let anyone tell you that these are “criminals”:
ICE’s own statistics show that over 73% of those incarcerated have no
criminal record and the remaining 27% have committed minor infractions
like traffic violations. Research shows that over 170 US citizens have
even been abducted and detained.
This year alone, 23 people have died in ICE custody — a record high. One
man died with his hands and feet tied together, and ICE claimed it was a
suicide. This administration continues to lie about it all.
This has to stop.
Yesterday, I introduced the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act along with
124 original co-sponsors and a powerful coalition of immigrant rights
advocates. My bill would finally overhaul this abusive system from the
ground up by:
* Ending the use of private, for-profit immigration detention centers
and instead utilizing alternatives to detention that have been shown
to work and don’t waste taxpayer dollars
* Prohibiting the detention of children and families
* Making it harder to detain primary caregivers and vulnerable people,
including pregnant people and people with serious medical issues
* Imposing meaningful penalties for failure to comply with civil
detention standards
* Requiring unannounced congressional inspections so ICE can’t hide
abuses from the American people
As an immigrant, as the Ranking Member on the Immigration Subcommittee,
and as someone who knows these stories could have been mine, I cannot and
will not accept the cruelty that’s happening right now as normal. That’s
why I have held five shadow hearings to draw attention to what is
happening. That’s why I developed a brand new Immigration Justice
Resistance Lab training on what regular people who hate what is happening
can do, right now, to push back.
[ [link removed] ]Sign up for our next Resistance Lab on Sunday, December 14, where we’ll
be specifically focusing on immigration justice. This is a great way to
get involved in a massive nonviolent movement to protect immigrant
communities.
But I need your help now,
John. Building the momentum to
pass this bill will take all of us. If we’re going to overcome the
dark-money machine behind mass detention and organize a national movement
strong enough to protect people from these abuses, then I need you in the
fight with me.
[ [link removed] ]Can I count on you to pitch in $3 — or anything you can
— to support our work to pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act and
build the grassroots support we need to end these inhumane conditions?
[ [link removed] ]Contribute $3
This is about reclaiming our values, refusing to accept cruelty as policy,
and building the people-powered movement capable of taking on the
for-profit detention industry and winning.
We can stop the lawlessness and abuse happening in our name. We can create
an immigration system rooted in dignity, justice, and humanity. But we can
only do it together.
Thank you, truly, for being part of this fight.
In solidarity,
Pramila Jayapal
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