#Not1More Deportation

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As Situation Escalates, Former Hunger Striker to Appear on Sanders Livestream Event at 3:00pm [watch here]

Updates:

  • Theo Lacy suspends strike after reaching agreement for release from ICE
  • Otay hunger strikers resume eating after 11 days (including one man who continued for three days even after heart surgery)
  • Adelanto and Etowah detainees report sleep deprivation with guards waking them every 15 minutes
  • Etowah detainees report threats of force feeding
  • 7 Etowah detainees sent to medical unit now on 12th day of strike
  • At least four of the original El Paso hunger strikers were put on planes for removal and then returned to their cells this weekend
  • Krome, Etowah, and Aurora cut off calls to known supporters, trying to sever communication.

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Reports of Solitary Confinement and Medical Abuse Raise Concerns for Detainees’ Safety in Custody

 

November 30, 2015

Today three additional centers join what has become known as the #freedomgiving hunger strikes.  On the eve of Thanksgiving, 110+ men who came to the US seeking safety but instead have been held in detention for seven months to up to two years refused their meals and demanded their freedom at the Etowah, Theo Lacy, and Otay detention centers. Read more


Obama Speech Interrupted
Early Monday morning, three young women from the Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition locked themselves to the gates of the Adelanto Detention Center to protest unjust deportations and the inhumane treatment of inmates inside. Read more

Three young women who belong to the Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition, an affiliate of the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, have locked themselves to the gates of the Adelanto detention center to protest unjust deportations and the inhumane treatment of inmates inside. Read more