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Detention Watch Network

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A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 01/10/2026
“It’s very clear that the rampant systemic medical abuse is a core feature of the immigration detention system,” said Stacy, program director of the Detention Watch Network... “You can’t get well in a detention center.” theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i... @theintercept.com
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 29/09/2026
As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from these grave abuses. theintercept.com/2026/09/29/i...
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“No matter how many times we hear this same horrendous information, it doesn’t get better and it keeps getting worse,” said Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at @detentionwatchnetwork.org. prospect.org/2026/09/30/i...
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 30/09/2026
30 years ago, Congress passed #AEDPA and #IIRIRA, shifting immigration policy toward detention as the default, not the exception. In 1995, fewer than 7,500 people were detained daily. Today, that number is nearly 70,000. That growth didn’t happen by accident. truthout.org/articles/cli...
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Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.
Clinton’s ‘96 laws provided the legal foundation for mass detention, rapid deportations, and the evasion of due process.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 29/09/2026
Join our team! We are hiring a senor organizer or organizing manager in the Northeast, learn more: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/about/jobs-o...
Black and orange graphic: Join our team! Detention Watch Network is looking for a Senior Organizer or Organizing Manager that will help build the power of the Network and our members by providing key support to the development and implementation of campaign strategies and growing DWN’s capacity to support local, regional and national efforts challenging detention. The Senior Organizer or Organizing Manager will work with members and DWN staff to draft and implement statewide, regional and national campaigns; engage in public education and training, outreach and ally-building activities; and coordinate key membership calls and events. 

📍Preferred Location: Northeastern United States (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT, NJ, NY,
PA, DE, MD, VA, West VA, DMV) Remote 

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to applications received by October 21, 2026.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 29/09/2026
ICYMI: ICE is preparing to open a new child & family detention center in Louisiana at the England Airpark adjacent to the Alexandria International Airport, notoriously known as ICE’s busiest mass deportation hub. ✒️Tell Congress to stop this facility before it opens! bit.ly/nofamilydetentionLA
Blue graphic with deportation flights in the background. Text reads: Take action: Stop ICE from opening a detention center for kids and families in Louisiana.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 09/09/2026
Approximately 50 detained individuals participated in a hunger strike to protest serious concerns about food, medical care, disability accommodations, and treatment inside the facility. www.thefloridacatholic.org/news/florida...
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Detainees share details of living in Deportation Depot
ORLANDO | An immigration advocate listened to first-hand accounts of life inside the walls of Deportation Depot in Sanderson, Florida.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 09/09/2026
We joined immigrant rights, faith, civil rights, and community organizations Tuesday evening outside the federal courthouse in Jacksonville , FL to denounce the inhumane conditions facing people detained at Florida’s “Deportation Depot. #ShutDownBaker
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Advocacy groups say detainees at Baker Correctional Institution are living in inhumane conditions
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 03/09/2026
The No Homeless Detention Centers Act would prevent the federal government from funding programs that force people experiencing homelessness into shelters, camps or other facilities against their will. It would also ban forced labor in these types of facilities. Learn more.
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Frost Introduces No Homeless Detention Centers Act to Ban Forced Labor and Cruel Homeless Encampments | Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida's 10th District
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Maxwell Frost
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 03/09/2026
Thank you @frost.house.gov for introducing this bill! The Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize and detain people without homes is a clear attempt to vilify homeless people and enrich private prison companies and tech surveillance organizations, just like with our immigrant communities.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 01/09/2026
Today, we received notice of another death in ICE detention. We also learned that a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant, Pierre Damas Bel, took his own life in Springfield, Ohio, after the Trump Administration ended TPS for Haitians and fitted him with an ankle monitor.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 01/09/2026
The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking. Third country deportation and detention expansion are the same system, funded by the unprecedented $240 billion Congress handed to DHS to bolster Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.
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Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is why you can't have healthcare. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio…
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ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations
The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 01/09/2026
Third country deportation is a cruel tactic designed to circumvent protections for people who cannot be deported their home country because they are at risk of torture or even death or are unable to obtain the necessary documentation to travel. These cruel policies do not make our communities safer.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 01/09/2026
Third-country deportations serve to expel people out of sight and out of mind, but the reality is that often they are imprisoned in remote or abusive prisons where their freedom of movement is extremely limited. To date, the admin has sent more than 23,000 people to 26 countries.
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Third Country Deportation Watch
Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 01/09/2026
The Trump regime is attempting to normalize detaining people in other countries through third-country deportations as a new & model of incarceration and deportation. This violence is an extension of the admin’s mass detention & deportation agenda, where ICE subjects people to horrific abuse daily.
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Violent third-country deportations are an extension of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda
Nationwide - In response to reports of abuse and horrendous conditions during ICE’s third country deportations, Stacy Suh, Program Director of Detention Watch Network issued the following statement:
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26/08/2026
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/08/2026
Over 20,000 children could be left to navigate one of the world's most complex legal systems alone — against trained government attorneys, in a language they may not speak. Tell Congress to protect #UnaccompaniedChildren ➡️ tinyurl.com/protect-kids
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Restore Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children
This week, the government froze legal services for unaccompanied children, leaving over 26,000 children without access to their legal counsel. This strands children, some as young as toddlers, without...
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 24/08/2026
We need you to take action to stop the expansion: ➡️Sign the petition demanding NO family detention in Louisiana: bit.ly/noICEchilddetention ➡️Tell your member of Congress to say NO to the Alexandria ICE family and child detention center: bit.ly/nofamilydete...
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 24/08/2026
🚨A new detention facility for unaccompanied children & families in Alexandria, #Louisiana in the former military barracks adjacent to the Alexandria Intl Airport is proposed to open soon - we still have time to stop it! The airport is already notorious as ICE’s busiest hub for mass deportations.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 11/08/2026
Tell your member of Congress to say NO to the Alexandria ICE family detention center! Family detention centers have a well-documented history of negligence and abuse, including inadequate medical and mental health care, including threats to separate families. ACT NOW: bit.ly/nofamilydetentionLA
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 11/08/2026
As early as this month, ICE may open a new detention facility for unaccompanied children and families in Alexandria, Louisiana, in the former military barracks adjacent to the Alexandria International Airport, notorious as ICE’s busiest mass deportation hub. ACT NOW: bit.ly/nofamilydetentionLA
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aemarling.bsky.social @aemarling.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Want to show up for immigrant and human rights? One way is to join with @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Feel free to suggest more with replies. #AbolishICE #MeltICE #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 06/08/2026
54 people have died in ICE custody under the current Trump admin. The alarming death toll underscores that ICE’s mass detention & deportation system is plagued by poor conditions, a lack of accountability & a culture of violence and secrecy that results in system-wide abuses, including death.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 06/08/2026
Mr. Priciliano's family deserved a chance to say goodbye. We urgently demand to #ShutDownStewart and to End the ICE Age for good. #CommunitiesNotCages Donate to Trejo’s family: gofund.me/a930c85d9
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Donate to Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano, organized by Joanny Santiago-Hernandez
***Update: At 6am on July 24, 2026, Prisciliano passed away. He was… Joanny Santiago-Hernandez needs your support for Help cover Funeral Costs for Prisciliano
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 06/08/2026
We are devastated and outraged to hear about Mr. Priciliano Trejo's death. He deserved to be with his loved ones while fighting for his life with leukemia. He deserved proper medical attention & specialist care, not to be caged in a deadly ICE detention center plagued with abuse and medical neglect.
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The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 05/08/2026
An important video to watch by our friend Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director at @detentionwatchnetwork.org www.instagram.com/reel/DboPbj5... #NoKingsNoCamps
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@end_theiceage on Instagram: "📢Here is the latest news on the Trump admin’s cruel ICE detention expansion plan from Setareh, DWN’s advocacy director. People in immigration detention are describing it...
39 likes, 1 comments - end_theiceage on August 4, 2026: "📢Here is the latest news on the Trump admin’s cruel ICE detention expansion plan from Setareh, DWN’s advocacy director. People in immigration ...
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 23/07/2026
📣July 25, over 250 communities across the country will hold vigils, & actions to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, Jesus Manuel Arenas Silva, and more killed by ICE or died in the agency’s custody. 📍Find an action near you: mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/map
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Disappeared in America on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Disappeared in America.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 23/07/2026
ICE kills people, tears families apart, and threatens community safety wherever they go. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities.
Blue graphic with an ice cube in the background. Text reads: ICE out of Communities
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 23/07/2026
Local communities are making it clear from coast to coast – they don’t want detention centers or warehouse detention. And they are winning! We demand an end to Trump’s cruel mass detention expansion and that detention facilities be shut down for good. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
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ICE formally withdraws plans to build two Pennsylvania detention centers, Gov. Josh Shapiro says
The decision, which comes amid opposition from the state and from local communities, means the end of efforts to convert warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill Counties.
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 20/07/2026
Last month, a U.S. senator warned that the Trump administration planned to deport 500 unaccompanied children. This month, reporting shows it has plans to relocate tens of thousands of unaccompanied kids to Texas. The Trump administration is attacking immigrant children on all fronts.🧵⤵️
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New interview I did with Amna Akbar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social was just published. It's a bit of a synthesis on the how we got here and the current conditions on immigration. Always great to be in convo w/Amna & wonderful to work w/Aparna Gopalan at JC on this. jewishcurrents.org/unbuild-the-...
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Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21/07/2026
Join us and learn more! 🧊💥 Register for the End the ICE Age Campaign Launch Call: on July 22 at 5pm PT/7pm CT/8pm ET and learn from speakers about the history of ICE, how we got here, and how we can act to end the ICE age. bit.ly/endicecall1. See you there! #endtheiceage
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End the ICE Age Campaign Launch Call / Llamada Registration
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21/07/2026
End the ICE Age will provide a roadmap for taking action at the local, state, and federal levels. Our tax dollars need to be used to strengthen our families and communities, not to target, detain and deport our immigrant friends and neighbors. Follow on instagram: www.instagram.com/end_theiceage/
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21/07/2026
No one is safe when ICE is present - whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. @detentionwatchnetwork.org @the-ilrc.bsky.social @immdefenseproject.bsky.social are launching a new campaign: End the ICE Age. 🧊💥
blue background, text: "end the ice age - shut down detention centers, ice out of communities, redirect ICE funding"
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/07/2026
This morning, I was notified of another death in ICE custody. This is the 53th death on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We must continue to fight for accountability for everyone who has lost a loved one. And it’s time to end the use of all for-profit detention centers.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 13/07/2026
We must demand members of Congress act now to zero out ICE funding in upcoming appropriations bills, revoke the billions of dollars they have already received, get ICE out of communities nationwide, and shut down ICE detention centers for good. www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
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Another fatal shooting by ICE - We demand an end to the ICE age
In response to reports of a fatal shooting by ICE in Biddeford, Maine, Carly Pérez Fernandez, Communications Director, issued the following statement:
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 13/07/2026
People are dying in ICE detention at a record-breaking rate, including the deaths of Adrian Andreas Florian, 85 and Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, 63, in June, making fiscal year 2026 the deadliest fiscal year in ICE’s history.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 13/07/2026
ICE kills people and threatens community safety across the country. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 13/07/2026
We are deeply saddened and equally enraged by the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and now, the reported death of a 26-year-old in Maine at the hands of ICE just today, both deaths occurring within a week of each other.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/06/2026
We vehemently denounce the Roberts Court’s abandonment of families, including for those who call the U.S. home, many for decades or even since childhood and those seeking safety in this country. www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
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SCOTUS Decisions Double Down on Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda
Washington, DC — In response to the Roberts Court’s decisions terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian refugees, and blocking migrants from seeking asylum at the US border, ...
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/06/2026
The decision strips the TPS status of people from Haiti and Syria immediately and could put over one million people at risk of ICE targeting, abusive immigrant detention, and deportation – which can be a death sentence.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/06/2026
The decisions, stripping away critical Temporary Protected Status from community members and delaying or outright denying people’s right to seek asylum will impact people seeking safety from life-threatening crises, including, war, armed conflicts, climate disasters, and more.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/06/2026
Today, the right wing Justices on the Supreme Court doubled down on Trump’s cruel and racist anti-immigrant agenda with two decisions that will put countless people at risk of detention and deportation.
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 25/06/2026
Join us to take action now to demand that Congress stop providing funds to ICE and Border Patrol!  🔗 Send a letter today: bit.ly/nofunds27  👥 Tag your congress member below
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@detentionwatchnetwork.org is continuing to work with local communities to fight the warehouses (toolkit here: bit.ly/noicewarehouse) and stop expansion of detention in more traditional facilities such as former prisons. Despite the billions in funding, there is a lot we can still do to stop them.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In Surprise, AZ where ICE is still moving ahead with plans despite the a lawsuit filed by the AG, local residents are trying to disincorporate the city in order to block the warehouse: azmirror.com/2026/06/17/f...
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Frustrated by inaction on ICE warehouse, activists move to dissolve Surprise altogether
Surprise ICE warehouse facility opposition fuels a petition to disincorporate the Arizona city entirely, but it's a big challenge to do so
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In Texas, ICE is repackaging the plan for the warehouse in Socorro for offices, training space and some detention. The scale might be reduced but they are moving ahead: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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ICE changing plans for Socorro warehouses, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar says
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said that ICE is no longer looking to use three warehouses in Socorro, Texas to hold 8,500 people.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is an incredible victory for the local communities, researchers, litigators, and longstanding anti-detention organizers in these states that have been working tirelessly to stop these sites from going online. But warehouse expansion continues in AZ, TX, and elsewhere. The fight is far from over
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