_*Freedom for Immigrants Calls on Biden Administration to Abolish
Detention*_

Media Contact: Rebekah Entralgo, [email protected]

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Freedom for Immigrants Deputy Executive
Director Layla Razavi issued the following statement in response to the
2020 presidential election results:

/“The past four years have laid bare the stark reality that the U.S.
immigration detention system cannot be reformed. It must be abolished.//
//
//The current moment requires strong and courageous leadership to bring
truth and reconciliation for immigrant communities around the country.
Immigrant communities have always, but especially in the last four
years, been the target of relentless attacks. The next administration
must take proactive steps to address systemic and institutional forms of
racism and brutality that dehumanize people of color.//
//
//It is for these reasons and countless others that we call on the
incoming administration to abolish immigration detention. This is a
system that kidnaps people from their homes, cages them indefinitely,
and profits off of their suffering. And it is all funded by our
hard-earned taxpayer money. //
//
//The first step towards a world without cages begins with divesting
from the inhumane, profit-driven immigration detention system and
investing in community-based alternatives that benefit all communities. 
Every administration since the Reagan administration has invested in
immigration detention, at the behest of private prisons companies that
formed in 1983 and 1984.  This must stop now.  A country that welcomes
immigrants rather than imprisoning them is viable, not just in our
lifetime, but now.//
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//Over the next four years, Freedom for Immigrants will continue to
monitor human rights abuses in ICE prisons and secure investments in
programs that serve as models for a world without immigration
detention.  In the meantime, we continue to monitor ICE’s actions during
this transition of power and will hold the current administration
accountable for any escalation in human rights abuses or mass
deportations they may seek to inflict during the final days of their
reign.”//
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Rebekah Entralgo | She/Her/Ella
Media Advocacy Strategist
FREEDOM for IMMIGRANTS
Cell: 786-897-4080
www.freedomforimmigrants.org

Freedom for Immigrants is working to abolish immigration detention. Learn more & donate here.

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