Communities Not Cages
#repost from Detention Watch Network to a campaign we support:
Today, we’re relaunching the #CommunitiesNotCages campaign and renewing the call to shut down ICE detention centers and stop the expansion and construction of new facilities. With the support of 100 organizational campaign cosponsors across the country and members of Congress, Communities Not Cages is amplifying local community organizing to end ICE detention while illuminating the dangers of the Trump administration’s multi-layered detention expansion plan.
The gravity of this moment cannot be understated, particularly after the passage of the MAGA megabill that has supercharged Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda, making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the country.
📣Support #CommunitiesNotCages by signing the petition to stop detention expansion at the link in bio or at https://bit.ly/BlockICE! 📣
In this critical moment, it’s important for us to relaunch the Communities Not Cages campaign to draw attention to the people across the country who are uniting to protect their family members, neighbors, and friends. In the face of the administration’s unrelenting expansion of immigration detention, communities across the country are demanding to shut down detention centers and halt detention expansion.
The Communities Not Cages campaign originally launched in 2018 under the first Trump administration. In 2021 the campaign escalated to “First Ten to Communities Not Cages” which targeted the Biden administration and resulted in the end of detention at three facilities in Alabama, Georgia, and Pennsylvania and eliminated the practice of detaining families with young children at two detention centers in Texas.
What you can expect with the relaunch over the coming weeks:
✨Check out our new campaign logo!
✨Revamped materials to support local organizing against ICE detention
✨New artwork
✨A campaign spotlight series on 11 facilities that are representative of Trump’s detention expansion and the inhumane conditions that people face system-wide
#CommunitiesNotCages