Tell Santa Ana, End Its ICE Contract. Free Trans Detainees Now.
The Majority Latino City Should Not Be in the Detention Business.
In Santa Ana, immigrants should be seen as part of our community, not part of a line-item in our jail budget. But currently, the city of Santa Ana makes over $7,000,000 each year by renting beds in its jail to federal immigration authorities to detain immigrants who are seeking safety or economic opportunity in the US.
This agreement between one of the most Latino and immigrant cities in the country and the deportation agency responsible for the widespread devastation of Latino and immigrant communities is a moral failure and a bad business decision.
The Santa Ana City Council can end its contract any time by triggering a 90 Day Cancelation Clause.
Federal authorities have tried to paint the facility as a model specifically for transgender detention, but the women who have been inside disagree.
Transgender immigrant women face disproportionate abuse within the detention system, including in Santa Ana.
The system of detention is unprepared and unable to safely care for LGBT people, and in particular transgender women. It’s not just Jessica and Christina that think so, current women detainees at the jail filed a complaint to investigate abuse and traumatizing strip searches.
Immigrant detention is wrong, and profiting from immigrant detention to pay down the city’s jail debt is beyond reprehensible. In February, the Santa Ana community came together and moved the council to reject an expansion of the ICE contract with a unanimous vote. Now it’s time to get out of the immigrant detention business altogether.
The way to do this is simple: the city must trigger the 90 Day Cancelation Clause of the contract. Whether they do so or not its a question of political will.
Please sign our petition and tell our city council members to end the ICE Jail Contract by triggering the 90 Day Cancelation Clause.
Sign to Tell City Council to Terminate its Contract Detaining People for the Federal Deportation Agency.
As a Santa Ana resident, I request an immediate end of the unethical contract between ICE and the Santa Ana City Jail by triggering the 90 day cancellation clause.
Under the contract between ICE and the City of Santa Ana, undocumented immigrants are detained often solely for seeking economic opportunity and safety for themselves and their families.
One of the immigrant populations detained at our jail by ICE are transgender immigrant women who face disproportionate abuses within the detention system, including here. It has been made clear that the system of detention is unprepared and unable to safely care for LGBT people, and in particular transgender women.
The jail contract between our city and ICE is a great moral failure, and a contradiction of our city’s values of inclusivity and respect for human rights.
I will feel safer and better about our city when it cuts its ties with the deportation agency, and I urge you to take immediate action to trigger the 90 day cancellation clause. In the absence of federal inaction to advance immigrant rights, local action to end immigrant detention in our communities is not only logical, it is a moral imperative.
Thank you
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Sign to Tell City Council to Terminate its Contract Detaining People for the Federal Deportation Agency.
Hello,
I support an immediate end of the unethical contract between ICE and the Santa Ana City Jail by triggering a 90 day cancellation clause.
Under the contract between ICE and the City of Santa, undocumented immigrants, including transgender women who face disproportionate abuse, are detained for seeking economic opportunity and safety for themselves and their families.
The treatment of transgender detainees is of national concern. It has been made clear that the system of detention is unprepared and unable to safely care for LGBT people, and in particular transgender women.
ICE has proven it can’t house trans detainees in safe, humane, gender-appropriate facilities. It should stop holding them altogether. Santa Ana can be a leader in the national efforts to end the detention of Transgender women or it can aid in their continued exposure to abuse.
Santa Ana should be cutting its ties with ICE and I urge you to take immediate action to trigger the 90 day cancellation clause. In the absence of federal inaction to advance immigrant rights, local action to end immigrant detention in their communities is not only logical, it is a moral imperative.
Thank you,