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Letter to the Biden Administration
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Via Certified Mail

The President of the United States

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20500

Cc: The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas

Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Washington, DC 20528

Senator Jon Ossoff

50 Constitution Ave NE

Washington, DC 20510

Senator Raphael Warnock

50 Constitution Ave NE

Washington, DC 20510

En español, abajo

UPDATE MAY 20, 2021: Click here to read a statement in response to the DHS decision to end its ICE contract with Lasalle Corrections/Irwin County Detention Center.

“I am glad to hear that the Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts with Lasalle Corrections at ICDC. The long history of abuse is not erased with this decision... We do not want to see the transfer of the people remaining in ICDC to other prisons. We demand their total liberation.”

– Li Ann, community organizer and former detainee

“I spent 13 months in ICE detention centers in Georgia including Irwin County Detention Center. The announcement that DHS is ending ICE contracts with Lasalle Corrections at ICDC...is long overdue. The fact is that ICDC should have never existed.”

– Nilson, community organizer and former detainee

“Today, we survivors celebrate the first step to closing and canceling contracts for places like Irwin. I ask...for justice on behalf of every survivor and human being.”

– Andrea, activist and former detainee


A Message from Individuals Formerly in the Custody of ICE,

with Solidarity from a Coalition of Georgia Migrant Justice Organizers

and Various Georgia and National Groups

 (Read Below)

To President Joe Biden:

We are the organizers who interrupted the celebration of the first 100 days of your presidency. People still suffering in the cages we survived have little to celebrate.

We expressed to you the urgent need to end Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attacks and detention and to invest in communities, not cages. You said, "Give me five days." We listened.  More than five days have already passed and we are still waiting to  hear from your office despite a member of your staff promising to contact us.

It is offensive that you rescinded your statement and claimed that you were just “teasing us in our moment of anger and grief. What is a joke to you is a reminder of the death and suffering of our family and community members. Why are you “teasing” us when we have suffered atrocities in ICE custody? Why are you “teasing” us when we see more children and LGBTQ+ people imprisoned by your government and  families separated by U.S. policies?

According to Li An “Estrella” Sánchez, director and founder of Community Estrella, “Being in solitary confinement under ICE custody was terrible and humiliating.” She says, “I spent thirteen months in an inhumane, unhealthy place, where our rights were violated, and we were forced to do labor just for seeking refuge. Our only ‘crime’ was seeking security and protection in this country. It was time for the people, the directly and indirectly impacted communities, to take command of these movements. I believed in your promises during the election, and this is why I risked it all to knock on doors and campaign to turn Georgia blue. When you said you were ‘teasing’ us, were you joking with democracy, the suffering of individuals, and the people who helped elect you? This was not the first time we have sent messages similar to the one we share today. We want those places to be closed! Not only that, we want all immigrants to be freed from ICE custody.”

Formerly detained father and husband, Nilson Barahona stated: “When you responded by saying you agreed with us, you heard the approval from the crowd. However, when you asked for five days and then later told reporters you were ‘teasing,’ it felt like a slap in our face. We are not trying to victimize ourselves by pointing this out. As a community, the most important thing we have is our family. Thousands of families suffer because they cannot be with their loved ones. Separating families hurts and disrupts our community. Here in Georgia, united as directly impacted individuals, united as a family, united as a community, united as a people, we call for action. The community has decided to lift their voice. For this government to continue down this path is a self-inflicted pain.”

African American scholar and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois is known for his saying, “As the South goes, so goes the nation.” Indeed, we Southerners in Georgia of migrant, Asian, Black, Caribbean, Indigenous, Arab, and Latin American heritage say to you that our voices and movements from the South for the South will pave the way for the equitable future that we all deserve.

Many Georgia organizers knocked on doors and encouraged the vote for your historic win in the Peach State. Many individuals supporting our words today also fought hard for the historic elections of Senators Ossoff and Warnock, giving your party control of Congress.

There’s a reason you came to Georgia to mark your 100 days in office, and there is a reason for our interruption. Listen and follow the lead of the South. This will ensure continued victories for true allies of justice. There are immediate actions that can be taken today. There are many historical wrongs that we must begin to undo, including the immigrant detention regime. Here is how:

Immediately close all ICE detention centers and private prisons, including Irwin County Detention Center, Stewart Detention Center and Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia. 

This includes divesting from ICE detention and enforcement in order to invest in community-based alternatives to detention that keep families together and respect the human rights and dignity of immigrants. Since you spoke to us and asked for five days, we have learned that two planes full of people have been taken to Stewart, expanding the population of the South’s “shadow prisons” and endangering the lives of immigrants with the continued spread of COVID-19 in detention centers where it is impossible to practice social distancing.

Here in “blue Georgia,” Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) operated by LaSalle Corrections and Stewart County Detention Center (SDC) operated by CoreCivic have a long history of human rights abuses. ICDC gained national attention after a federal complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General. It included accounts of the lack of COVID-19 precautions and accounts of non-consensual gynecological surgeries on Black and Brown women. The lack of COVID-19 precautions persists and were detailed recently by Doctors for Camp Closure after a COVID-19 outbreak. Meanwhile, a federal investigation and a class action lawsuit involving 40 women against ICE and the contracted gynecologist are ongoing. Many women faced retaliation from ICE, with some even being deported to prevent them from testifying in any investigations, a tactic frequently employed by ICE to silence and disappear its victims.. The human rights abuses that were documented at ICDC are not unique. SDC has a long history of human rights abuses as well.

Last year during the pandemic, protestors in detention (some of us signing this letter) were brutalized by the Special Operation Response Team (SORT) for speaking up about the lack of COVID-19 precautions at SDC. Members of the SORT team bragged and joked about pepper-spraying someone in a wheelchair. SDC is the deadliest facility in the country, and four people have died from COVID-19 there, including one person since you took office. Meanwhile, community members continue to be thrown into this abusive system from Georgia and surrounding states for small offenses like driving without a license. Please read the report, Cage of Fear, which details the medical neglect and abuse in SDC during the COVID-19 pandemic.

End all contracts with for-profit detention companies including LaSalle, GEO Group, and CoreCivic and halt programs of ICE collaboration with local law enforcement and corrections departments.

No one should profit from the suffering of migrants and their families. The policing, surveillance, and detention of migrants and people of color benefit the profits of prison corporations and not community safety. You ended federal contracts with private prisons responsible for about eight percent of the federal prison population through your January Executive Order. You have the power to end ICE contracts with all private detention centers, too.

ICE has been absolutely reckless during the pandemic. Through hard work and activism, we have seen the release of many people from these camps during the pandemic, but the continued wrongdoing of ICE and their partner corporations will continue to put lives at risk. ICE isn’t just “teasing” us; it is terrorizing people’s lives.

Driving without a license is one of many mechanisms that funnel migrants through the prison-to-deportation pipeline as a result of 287(g) programs in Georgia and across the country. These migrant policing schemes separate families, much like the families that continue to be separated at the border. Even in jurisdictions that do not have formal 287(g) agreements, local law enforcement engages in cooperation with ICE and discriminatory treatment of immigrants even when individuals are cleared for whatever reason they were initially detained. This is why we rejected Trump here in Georgia. This cruel policy evicts people from their home. This traumatizes children and leaves lifelong scars. This hurts communities.

Pay detained migrants all back wages owed to them for work they performed while detained at these facilities.

Extracting free and low-wage labor is criminal, especially when vulnerable people in cages are forced into performing labor behind bars. CoreCivic, the company that operates SDC, has been accused of engaging in a forced labor scheme in violation of federal anti-trafficking laws by coercing detained individuals to join the so-called "voluntary work program" and then threatening punishment when they decline to work.

Stop funding the militarization of borders and the expansion of policing and prisons for U.S., Mexican, and Central American governments to deter migration. 

After funding civil wars in Central America, invasions in Asia, and interventionism throughout the Global South, the U.S continues to provide military, police, and prison infrastructure that results in more incarceration, police brutality, and militarized borders. These are conditions that have been exacerbated while you, President Biden, have been in government. Instead, protect the human right to migration and support proposals to address conditions that force migration created by U.S. intervention. Why not support initiatives to foster democracy and civil society rather than escalating brutality and violence from border militarization and policing?

We ask that you act on everything we have written here today using all of the power you have at your disposal. This includes Executive Orders, passing legislation through budget reconciliation, and ending the filibuster in the Senate.

Thank you,

Directly Impacted Community Members:

  1. Li Ann “Estrella” Sánchez
  2. Nilson Barahona
  3. Hippolyte Quentin Dimbo Mbome
  4. Andrea Manrique
  5. Maria Antonia Tamayo Fernandez
  6. Leidy Gonzalez
  7. Augusto Puig
  8. Elizabet Robaina
  9. Amneris Cortes
  10. Rachel Reyes
  11. Brahim
  12. Hugh Tinarwo
  13. Aimee Zangandou
  14. Ximena McDowell
  15. Janit Saechao
  16. Shannon Carsten
  17. Humberto Hernandez
  18. Marvin Diaz
  19. Johannes Favi
  20. Romelia Solano
  21. Edwin G.
  22. Victoria Castro
  23. Marcos
  24. Eduardo Delgado
  25. Ingrid Franco
  26. Xiomara Chacon
  27. Berto Hernandez
  28. Erika Andiola
  29. Eduardo Delgado

Georgia Organizations in Solidarity:

  1. Community EsTr(El/La)
  2. Somos South GA
  3. Savannah Undocumented Youth Alliance (La SUYA)
  4. Georgia Human Rights Clinic
  5. Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta
  6. Feminist Women’s Health Center
  7. Women Watch Afrika
  8. Metro Atlanta National Lawyers Guild
  9. Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative-SPLC
  10. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Savannah
  11. Latino LinQ
  12. Council on American Islamic Relations- Georgia Chapter (CAIR-GA)
  13. South Georgia Immigrant Support Network (SGISN)
  14. Casa Alterna
  15. Project South
  16. El Refugio
  17. Represent GA Action Network Inc
  18. Sur Legal Collaborative
  19. Amplify Atlanta
  20. Alliance for Black Lives
  21. EdLanta Student
  22. SisterLove, Inc.
  23. Buford Highway People’s Hub
  24. WOW! Afro Community
  25. Atlanta Women’s Center
  26. Promote Positivity Movement
  27. Athens Area Democratic Socialists of America
  28. Atlanta Justice Alliance
  29. Appalachian Indivisible
  30. Campaign Workers Guild Georgia Chapter
  31. Reform Georgia
  32. Big Peach Progressives
  33. Indivisible GA-11
  34. Douglasville Progressives
  35. No Safe Seats
  36. Indivisible Lumpkin
  37. Necessary Trouble Indivisible
  38. United Voices Foundation
  39. Georgia Equality
  40. Georgia Alliance for Social Justice
  41. Georgia Working Families Party
  42. Avondale ACTion
  43. Trans Housing Coalition.
  44. PSL Atlanta
  45. Georgia Muslim Voter Project
  46. Atlanta DSA
  47. South Atlanta Progress
  48. Los Vecinos de Buford Highway
  49. Poder Latinx - GA
  50. National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum - GA Chapter
  51. International Action Center, Atlanta Chapter
  52. Savannah Democratic Socialists of America (SDSA)
  53. Indivisible Georgia Coalition
  54. New Georgia Project
  55. The Global Purpose Approach
  56. Reproductive Health Access Project - GA Chapter
  57. Resurgens Collective
  58. Indivisible GA 13, Douglasville
  59. Indivisible GA 04
  60. Malaya Georgia
  61. Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR)
  62. Georgia Detention Watch
  63. CivicGeorgia

National Organization/Regional in Solidarity:

  1. SisterSong National Women of Color Collective
  2. United We Dream
  3. SPLC Action Fund
  4. Detention Watch Network
  5. Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
  6. Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition
  7. RAICES
  8. Mijente
  9. Doctors for Camp Closure
  10. American Friends Service Committee
  11. Reproductive Health Access Project
  12. American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)Georgia-Alabama Chapter
  13. UnLocal
  14. Release MN8
  15. All Above All Action Fund
  16. Undocumented Women’s Fund
  17. Legal Aid Justice Center
  18. Immigrant Action Alliance
  19. American Friends Service Committee
  20. California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
  21. Innovation Law Lab
  22. Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
  23. National Immigration Project
  24. Indigenous People’s Law
  25. El/La Para Translatinas
  26. Poder Latinx
  27. National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
  28. Mariposa Legal - COMMON Foundation
  29. Immigrant Defenders Law Center
  30. National Immigration Project
  31. National Lawyers Guild
  32. URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
  33. If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice

Local Organizations (Outside of Georgia)

  1. Adelante Alabama Worker Center
  2. Orange County Translatina
  3. Indivisible Virginia
  4. Indivisible San Francisco
  5. Justice for Migrant Families, Western New York
  6. California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
  7. The Woman Project
  8. Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
  9. West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equity (WV FREE)
  10. New Era Colorado
  11. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
  12. Keep Abortion Safe
  13. Reproaction

Independent Individuals in Solidarity

  1. Representative Park Cannon - GA 58th District
  2. Stella Silva - GA
  3. Viridiana Fuentes - GA
  4. Mariah Parker - Athens-Clarke County - District 2 Commissioner
  5. Eduardo Delgado - Chair of Bulloch County Democrats
  6. Lyle Miller
  7. Dustin Carter - GA
  8. Jen Nelson - GA
  9. Lizbeth Cortes Martinez
  10. Dianne Mathiowetz - GA
  11. Manisha Lance
  12. Leigh Dasinge - AL
  13. Francesca Wander
  14. Ajay Singh
  15. Lyndsay Levy
  16. Larry Bunkley - FL
  17. Lyle Miller
  18. Elizabeth Zambrana - GA
  19. Leigh Dasinger
  20. Freeda Cathcart
  21. Zack Greenamyre
  22. Wingo Smith
  23. Elizabeth Grofic - GA
  24. Maureen Curtin - NY
  25. Emily Martin
  26. Deborah M. Weissman - NC
  27. Nadia Hicks
  28. Sonya Herridge, LL. M., J.D., M.A. - TX
  29. Sharada K. Chidambaran
  30. Asia Parks
  31. Marianne Rathman - NY
  32. Rigo Fernandez - IL
  33. Robert A. Low, MD, MPH
  34. Rachel Conroy - NY
  35. Taliah Mirmalek
  36. Alina Lopez - GA
  37. Erica Gonzalez - GA
  38. Roula AbiSamra - GA
  39. Toni Watkins
  40. Sukari
  41. Max Mapes - CO
  42. April Salas Jankowski
  43. Nikita S.
  44. Danielle Rodriguez
  45. Jishava Patel
  46. Brandy Love
  47. Charlie Mullins - WV
  48. Sarah Korn - CO
  49. Zachary Cross - MA
  50. Amanda Hill
  51. Ashley Murray
  52. Zach Justice - GA
  53. William Tressel - WA
  54. Fatouseck Primus
  55. Michelle - IL
  56. Jeremy Henderson - GA
  57. Katie Wolfe - WV
  58. Toni Watkins
  59. Jeff Migliozzi - GA
  60. Russell Hooks - NJ
  61. Katelyn Claiflin - WA
  62. Meredyth Yoon - GA
  63. Luz Lopez - FL

ESPAÑOL

Un Mensaje de Individuos Previamente en la Custodia de ICE, Con Solidaridad de una Coalición de Organizadores de Justicia Migrante de Georgia y Varios Grupos Nacionales y de Georgia

Para el Presidente Joe Biden y el público,

Somos los organizadores que interrumpimos la celebración de los primeros 100 días de su presidencia. Las personas que siguen sufriendo en las jaulas  que sobrevivieron, tienen poco que celebrar.

Le expresamos la necesidad urgente de poner fin a la vigilancia y detención de parte del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) e invertir en comunidades, no en jaulas. Usted dijo: "Dame cinco días." Hemos pasado el quinto día,  pero aún no se ha contactado alguien de su oficina aunque un miembro de su personal prometió contactarnos.

Es ofensivo que usted haya rescindido su declaración y haya afirmado que solo estaba "bromeando " con nosotros en un momento de enojo y dolor. Lo que para usted es una broma es un recordatorio de la muerte y el sufrimiento de nuestra familia y miembros de nuestras comunidades. ¿Por qué se burla de nosotros cuando hemos sobrevivido a atrocidades bajo la custodia de ICE? ¿Por qué se burla de nosotros cuando vemos muchos niños o  personas LGBTQ+ encerrados por nuestro gobierno y familias separadas por póliticas Estadounidenses?

Según Li An “Estrella” Sánchez, directora y fundadora de Community Estrella, “Estar en confinamiento solitario bajo la custodia de ICE fue terrible y humillante.” Ella dice: “Pasé trece meses en un lugar inhumano e insalubre, donde se violaron nuestros derechos y nos obligaron a trabajar solo por buscar refugio. Nuestro único ‘crimen’ fue buscar seguridad y protección en este país. Era hora de que la gente, la comunidad afectada directa e indirectamente, tomara el mando de estos movimientos.Yo creí en sus promesas durante las elecciones, y es por eso que nos arriesgamos a tocar puertas y trabajar en la campaña para que Georgia se convirtiera azul , Cuando dijo que solo estaba jugando con nosotros, estaba burlándose del sufrimiento de la gente y del pueblo que le eligió? No es la primera vez que te mandamos un escrito similar y no ha habido respuesta , Por eso  ¡Queremos que esos lugares se cierren! No solo eso, queremos que todos los inmigrantes sean liberados de la custodia de ICE.”

El ex detenido Nilson Barahona, en respuesta a Biden dijo: “Cuando usted respondió diciendo que estaba de acuerdo con nosotros, usted escuchó la aprobación de la audiencia. Sin embargo, cuando pidió cinco días y luego les dijo a los reporteros que estaba"bromeando" - sin intención de victimizarnos - sentí como una bofetada en la cara. Como comunidad, lo más importante que tenemos es nuestra familia. Miles de familias sufren porque no pueden estar con sus seres queridos. Separar familias daña  y trastorna a nuestra comunidad. Aquí en Georgia, unidos como individuos directamente afectados, unidos como familia, unidos como comunidad, unidos como pueblo, hacemos un llamado a  para que se tome acción. La comunidad ha decidido levantar la voz. Continuar por este camino es un dolor autoinfligido ".

Académico y activista afroamericano, W.E.B. Du Bois es conocido por su dicho: "Como va el Sur, así va la nación." De hecho, nosotros, los sureños en Georgia de ascendencia inmigrante, asiática, negra, caribeña, indígena, árabe y latinoamericana, les decimos que nuestras voces y movimientos del Sur para el Sur construyen el camino para el futuro igualitario que todos merecemos.

Muchos organizadores de Georgia tocaron puertas y animaron a muchas personas a que votaran por su victoria histórica en el Estado del Durazno. Muchos individuos quienes nos apoyan hoy pelearon duro por las elecciones históricas de los Senadores Ossoff y Warnock, dándole a su partido el control del Congreso.

Hay una razón por la que vino a Georgia para conmemorar sus 100 días en el cargo, y hay una razón detrás de nuestra interrupción. Escuche y siga el ejemplo del Sur. Esto asegurará victorias continuas para los verdaderos aliados de la justicia. Hay acciones inmediatas que se pueden tomar hoy. Hay muchos errores históricos que debemos comenzar a corregir. Se debe deshacer el régimen de detención de inmigrantes. Lo siguiente es como:

Cierre inmediatamente todos los centros de detención de ICE y las prisiones privadas, incluidos el Centro de Detención del Condado de Irwin, el Centro de Detención Stewart  y el Centro de Procesamiento de ICE en Georgia.

Esto incluye desinvertir en la detención y la vigilancia de ICE para invertir en alternativas a la detención basadas en la comunidad que mantienen unidas a las familias y respeten los derechos humanos y la dignidad. Desde que habló con nosotros y pidió cinco días, nos enteramos de que dos aviones llenos de personas fueron llevados al Centro de Detencion Stewart, lo que aumentó la población de las "cárceles secretas" del Sur, arriesgando las vidas de los inmigrantes con la propagación continua de COVID-19 en centros de detención en donde es imposible de practicar la distancia social.

Aquí, en “Georgia azul”, el Centro de Detención del Condado de Irwin (ICDC) operado por LaSalle Corrections y el Centro de Detención del Condado de Stewart (SDC) operado por CoreCivic tienen una larga historia de abusos contra los derechos humanos. Más recientemente, estos centros de detención han ganado atención nacional después de que se presentó una denuncia federal ante la Oficina del Inspector General. Incluyó relatos de la falta de precauciones de COVID-19 y procedimientos ginecológicos invasivos no consensuales de mujeres negras y morenas. La falta de precauciones de COVID-19 continuo y fue detallada recientemente por la organización Doctors for Camp Closure después de un brote de COVID-19. Se está llevando a cabo una investigación federal y una demanda colectiva que involucra a 40 mujeres contra ICE y el ginecólogo contratado. Muchas mujeres enfrentaron represalias por parte de ICE, y algunas incluso recibieron órdenes de deportación, una táctica comunempleada por ICE para silenciar y desaparecer víctimas. Los abusos a los derechos humanos que están documentados en ICDC no son únicos. SDC tiene una larga historia de abusos contra los derechos humanos.

El año pasado, durante la pandemia, los manifestantes detenidos (algunos de nosotros le escribimos hoy) fueron brutalizados por el Equipo de Operaciones Especiales (SORT) por levantar la voz sobre la falta de precauciones contra el COVID-19 en SDC. Los miembros de este equipo presumieron y bromeaban sobre echarle spray de pimienta a alguien en silla de ruedas. La SDC es la instalación más mortífera del país, y cuatro personas han muerto allí por COVID-19. Mientras tanto, los miembros de la comunidad continúan siendo arrojados a este sistema abusivo desde Georgia y otros estados por delitos menores como conducir sin licencia. Lea el informe, Cage of Fear, que detalla la negligencia médica y el abuso en SDC durante la pandemia de COVID-19.

Ponga fin a todos los contratos con empresas de detención con fines de lucro, incluidas LaSalle, el GEO Group, y CoreCivic, y exija a ICE que detenga la cooperación con las fuerzas policiacas locales.

Nadie debería beneficiarse del sufrimiento de los migrantes y sus familias. La vigilancia y la detención de migrantes y personas de color sirve para obtener ganancias para las corporaciones carcelarias, no para la seguridad de la comunidad. Usted terminó los contratos federales con las cárceles privadas responsables de aproximadamente el ocho por ciento de la población carcelaria federal a través de una Orden Ejecutiva. También tiene el poder de poner fin a los contratos de ICE con todos los centros de detención privados.

ICE ha sido absolutamente imprudente durante la pandemia. A través del trabajo duro y el activismo, hemos visto la liberación de muchas personas de estos campamentos durante la pandemia, pero el mal manejo continuo de ICE y sus corporaciones asociadas continuará poniendo vidas en riesgo. ICE no solo está "burlando"; está aterrorizando la vida de las personas.

Conducir sin una licencia es uno de los muchos mecanismos que canalizan a los migrantes a través de los acuerdos 287(g) en Georgia y en todo el país que lleva a migrantes a ser detenidos en l cárceles para  ser deportados. Estas  políticas de vigilancia de migrantes separan a las familias de manera muy similar a las que continúan separando en la frontera. Hasta en jurisdicciones que no tienen un acuerdo formal de 287)g), la policía local coopera con ICE y trata discriminatoriamente a los migrantes aunque hayan sido librados por la razón que fueron detenidos. Por eso rechazamos a Trump aquí en Georgia. Esto desaloja a la gente de su hogar. Esto traumatiza a los niños y deja cicatrices para toda la vida. Esto lastima a las comunidades.

Pagar a los migrantes detenidos todos los salarios atrasados que se les adeuda por el trabajo que realizaron mientras estuvieron detenidos en estas instalaciones.

El trabajo gratuito y de bajo salario es un delito, especialmente cuando las personas vulnerables enjauladas se ven obligadas a realizar trabajos tras las rejas. CoreCivic, la empresa que opera SDC, ha sido acusada de realizar trabajo forzoso en violación de leyes federales anti-traficantes  por obligar a personas detenidas a unirse al llamado "programa de trabajo voluntario" y luego amenazar con castigar cuando se niegan a trabajar.

Deje de financiar la militarización de las fronteras y la expansión de la policía y las cárceles para que los gobiernos de Estados Unidos, México y Centroamérica reduzcan la migración. Después de financiar guerras civiles en Centroamérica, invasiones en Asia y el intervencionismo en todo el Sur Global, los EE. UU. continúa proporcionando infraestructura militar, policial y carcelaria que resulta en más encarcelamientos, brutalidad policial y fronteras  militarizadas. Estas son condiciones que se han agravado mientras usted, presidente Biden, estuvo en el gobierno. En cambio, hay que proteger el derecho humano a la migración y apoyar propuestas para abordar las condiciones que obligan a la migración que han resultado por el intervencionismo estadounidense. ¿Por qué no apoyar iniciativas para impulsar la democracia y la sociedad civil en lugar de aumentar la brutalidad y la violencia de la militarización y la vigilancia de las fronteras?

Le pedimos que actúe en respuesta a  lo que hemos escrito  utilizando todo el poder que tiene a su disposición. Esto incluye Órdenes Ejecutivas, que aprueben  legislaciones a través de la conciliación presupuestaria y poner fin al obstruccionismo (“filibuster”) en el Senado.

Gracias,

Miembros de la comunidad directamente afectados:

  1. Li Ann “Estrella” Sánchez
  2. Nilson Barahona
  3. Hippolyte Quentin Dimbo Mbome
  4. Andrea Manrique
  5. Maria Antonia Tamayo Fernandez
  6. Leidy Gonzalez
  7. Augusto Puig
  8. Elizabet Robaina
  9. Amneris Cortes
  10. Rachel Reyes
  11. Brahim
  12. Hugh Tinarwo
  13. Aimee Zangandou
  14. Ximena McDowell
  15. Janit Saechao
  16. Shannon Carsten
  17. Humberto Hernandez
  18. Marvin Diaz
  19. Johannes Favi
  20. Romelia Solano
  21. Edwin G.
  22. Victoria Castro
  23. Marcos
  24. Eduardo Delgado
  25. Ingrid Franco
  26. Xiomara Chacon
  27. Berto Hernandez
  28. Erika Andiola
  29. Eduardo Delgado

Organizaciones de Georgia en solidaridad:

  1. Community EsTr(El/La)
  2. Somos South GA
  3. Savannah Undocumented Youth Alliance (La SUYA)
  4. Georgia Human Rights Clinic
  5. Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta
  6. Feminist Women’s Health Center
  7. Women Watch Afrika
  8. Metro Atlanta National Lawyers Guild
  9. Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative-SPLC
  10. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Savannah
  11. Latino LinQ
  12. Council on American Islamic Relations- Georgia Chapter (CAIR-GA)
  13. South Georgia Immigrant Support Network (SGISN)
  14. Casa Alterna
  15. Project South
  16. El Refugio
  17. Represent GA Action Network Inc
  18. Sur Legal Collaborative
  19. Amplify Atlanta
  20. Alliance for Black Lives
  21. EdLanta Student
  22. SisterLove, Inc.
  23. Buford Highway People’s Hub
  24. WOW! Afro Community
  25. Atlanta Women’s Center
  26. Promote Positivity Movement
  27. Athens Area Democratic Socialists of America
  28. Atlanta Justice Alliance
  29. Appalachian Indivisible
  30. Campaign Workers Guild Georgia Chapter
  31. Reform Georgia
  32. Big Peach Progressives
  33. Indivisible GA-11
  34. Douglasville Progressives
  35. No Safe Seats
  36. Indivisible Lumpkin
  37. Necessary Trouble Indivisible
  38. United Voices Foundation
  39. Georgia Equality
  40. Georgia Alliance for Social Justice
  41. Georgia Working Families Party
  42. Avondale ACTion
  43. Trans Housing Coalition.
  44. PSL Atlanta
  45. Georgia Muslim Voter Project
  46. Atlanta DSA
  47. South Atlanta Progress
  48. Los Vecinos de Buford Highway
  49. Poder Latinx - GA
  50. National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum - GA Chapter
  51. International Action Center, Atlanta Chapter
  52. Savannah Democratic Socialists of America (SDSA)
  53. Indivisible Georgia Coalition
  54. New Georgia Project
  55. The Global Purpose Approach
  56. Reproductive Health Access Project - GA Chapter
  57. Resurgens Collective
  58. Indivisible GA 13, Douglasville
  59. Indivisible GA 04
  60. Malaya Georgia
  61. Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR)
  62. Georgia Detention Watch
  63. CivicGeorgia

Organizaciones Nacionales en Solidaridad:

  1. SisterSong National Women of Color Collective
  2. United We Dream
  3. SPLC Action Fund
  4. Detention Watch Network
  5. Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
  6. Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition
  7. RAICES
  8. Mijente
  9. Doctors for Camp Closure
  10. American Friends Service Committee
  11. Reproductive Health Access Project
  12. American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)Georgia-Alabama Chapter
  13. UnLocal
  14. Release MN8
  15. All Above All Action Fund
  16. Undocumented Women’s Fund
  17. Legal Aid Justice Center
  18. Immigrant Action Alliance
  19. American Friends Service Committee
  20. California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
  21. Innovation Law Lab
  22. Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
  23. National Immigration Project
  24. Indigenous People’s Law
  25. El/La Para Translatinas
  26. Poder Latinx
  27. National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
  28. Mariposa Legal - COMMON Foundation
  29. Immigrant Defenders Law Center
  30. National Immigration Project
  31. National Lawyers Guild
  32. URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
  33. If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice

Organizaciones Locales (Afuera de Georgia)

  1. Adelante Alabama Worker Center
  2. Orange County Translatina
  3. Indivisible Virginia
  4. Indivisible San Francisco
  5. Justice for Migrant Families, Western New York
  6. California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
  7. The Woman Project
  8. Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
  9. West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equity (WV FREE)
  10. New Era Colorado
  11. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
  12. Keep Abortion Safe
  13. Reproaction

Individuales Independientes en Solidaridad

  1. Representative Park Cannon - GA 58th District
  2. Stella Silva - GA
  3. Viridiana Fuentes - GA
  4. Mariah Parker - Athens-Clarke County - District 2 Commissioner
  5. Eduardo Delgado - Chair of Bulloch County Democrats
  6. Lyle Miller
  7. Dustin Carter - GA
  8. Jen Nelson - GA
  9. Lizbeth Cortes Martinez
  10. Dianne Mathiowetz - GA
  11. Manisha Lance
  12. Leigh Dasinge - AL
  13. Francesca Wander
  14. Ajay Singh
  15. Lyndsay Levy
  16. Larry Bunkley - FL
  17. Lyle Miller
  18. Elizabeth Zambrana - GA
  19. Leigh Dasinger
  20. Freeda Cathcart
  21. Zack Greenamyre
  22. Wingo Smith
  23. Elizabeth Grofic - GA
  24. Maureen Curtin - NY
  25. Emily Martin
  26. Deborah M. Weissman - NC
  27. Nadia Hicks
  28. Sonya Herridge, LL. M., J.D., M.A. - TX
  29. Sharada K. Chidambaran
  30. Asia Parks
  31. Marianne Rathman - NY
  32. Rigo Fernandez - IL
  33. Robert A. Low, MD, MPH
  34. Rachel Conroy - NY
  35. Taliah Mirmalek
  36. Alina Lopez - GA
  37. Erica Gonzalez - GA
  38. Roula AbiSamra - GA
  39. Toni Watkins
  40. Sukari
  41. Max Mapes - CO
  42. April Salas Jankowski
  43. Nikita S.
  44. Danielle Rodriguez
  45. Jishava Patel
  46. Brandy Love
  47. Charlie Mullins - WV
  48. Sarah Korn - CO
  49. Zachary Cross - MA
  50. Amanda Hill
  51. Ashley Murray
  52. Zach Justice - GA
  53. William Tressel - WA
  54. Fatouseck Primus
  55. Michelle - IL
  56. Jeremy Henderson - GA
  57. Katie Wolfe - WV
  58. Toni Watkins
  59. Jeff Migliozzi - GA
  60. Russell Hooks - NJ
  61. Katelyn Claiflin - WA
  62. Meredyth Yoon - GA
  63. Luz Lopez - FL